Seth Vidal wrote:
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
Or hibernate?
-sv