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do ibooks/powerbook hibernate?
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<blockquote data-quote="flonejek" data-source="post: 84071"><p>The only thing left on when a mac laptop is asleep is a trickle to the ram and bios, as thats all that is neede to preserve what you were doing (instead of saving the ram to disk like hibernate it just maintains it with a trickle current) so both states are just as safe for rough handling but having the ram active results in far faster resume times, hibernate was really designed for pc users who dont wanna close anything but wanna turn their pc off as the boot process on a laptop uses more power than is saved when the laptops hibernating compared to sleeping...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="flonejek, post: 84071"] The only thing left on when a mac laptop is asleep is a trickle to the ram and bios, as thats all that is neede to preserve what you were doing (instead of saving the ram to disk like hibernate it just maintains it with a trickle current) so both states are just as safe for rough handling but having the ram active results in far faster resume times, hibernate was really designed for pc users who dont wanna close anything but wanna turn their pc off as the boot process on a laptop uses more power than is saved when the laptops hibernating compared to sleeping... [/QUOTE]
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