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Sat, 29 Nov 2003
Bears and Windows hibernate, but Macs don't
One of the features that I got used to on my Thinkpad is hibernation (saving and restoring the state of the machine to disk). It helps to preserve your working state so that you can reconstruct your mental environment quickly. Mac OS X is wonderful about going to sleep quickly and waking up from sleep quickly, but it can't hibernate. We were travelling all over Seattle today, and it would have been nice to hibernate to prolong the life of the Powerbook battery. Put that down for the requested features list.
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I've found that although I miss the hibernate feature that suspend on the Mac seems to be so much more efficient than suspend on the Thinkpad that I don't miss it that much.
Posted by Sam Pullara at Sun Nov 30 00:58:37 2003
Posted by Sam Pullara at Sun Nov 30 00:58:37 2003
I've never found Windows hibernate to actually work more than about 3 times in a row before needing to completely reboot the machine. Mac sleep on the other hand is amazing and the only time my PowerBook gets rebooted is when a software update tells me to. I also find that sleep is pretty efficient - about 1% battery usage per hour. uptime = 9 days and counting.. ;-)
Posted by Simon Brown at Sun Nov 30 01:53:17 2003
Posted by Simon Brown at Sun Nov 30 01:53:17 2003
I left my Powerbook on suspend on Friday afternoon after work. On Sunday evening, I dug it out of its case and powered it up: the battery was still 75% charged (3 hours life)
Posted by Charles Miller at Sun Nov 30 02:23:33 2003
Posted by Charles Miller at Sun Nov 30 02:23:33 2003
I haven't measured the drain when sleeping -- I'll pay attention to that tomorrow. But I would like to close it and leave it for sizable amounts of time, open it back up and have power left to work, and
since my battery is only getting 2:20-2:30 hrs of life, every minute counts. My experience with hibernate was that is was very reliable -- and this on a Thinkpad X20 running Win2K. I completely agree that the Powerbook sleep performance is excellent -- some lessons that we learned on Newton got applied to MacOS. I have had problems with lid/latch bounce (I think) getting the Powerbook into a funny state.
Posted by Ted Leung at Tue Dec 2 01:51:40 2003
since my battery is only getting 2:20-2:30 hrs of life, every minute counts. My experience with hibernate was that is was very reliable -- and this on a Thinkpad X20 running Win2K. I completely agree that the Powerbook sleep performance is excellent -- some lessons that we learned on Newton got applied to MacOS. I have had problems with lid/latch bounce (I think) getting the Powerbook into a funny state.
Posted by Ted Leung at Tue Dec 2 01:51:40 2003
Hibernate v0.82 lets enable hibernation feature, as they say in the web page, but I haven't try it yet.
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/28471
Posted by José Manuel Peña at Thu Jan 12 06:00:05 2006
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/28471
Posted by José Manuel Peña at Thu Jan 12 06:00:05 2006
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