On Tue, 16 Dec 2008, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
Les Mikesell wrote:
> (b) making sleep/hibernate reliable is what laptop users
> need instead of booting all the time anyway because it is much faster if
> you can simply close the lid and open it later with all your apps
> working as you left them.
This is actually the strongest argument against spending a lot of resources on
going sub 20 seconds. If Vista-style suspend-to-both works reliably, there is
no reason to turn a machine off at all.
suspend uses LITTLE power but not none
hiberate uses no power but only happens when you've drained power already
so a good reason to power off is simply to save power
-sv