Once upon a time, Reindl Harald h.reindl@thelounge.net said:
sure?
Yes.
i used a laptop from 2003 until 2011 as my main working machine all the day and never came to the idea write a 6 GB to a slow mobile-disk and load it the next time instead simply shutdown/boot
Okay, so you don't want to use hibernate. Do you also not even suspend?
I've got a fast SSD in my notebook, and it hibernates faster than I would boot up, restart all my programs, and reopen any files I had when I last used it.
Windows 7 also has a nice thing that Linux does not: a hybrid mode between suspend and hibernate. With that, when you suspend, it goes through the hiberate steps (writing what it needs to disk), but then puts the system into suspend. If the battery runs dead or the power fails, you can restore from hibernate. If the system hasn't lost power, when you restore it is just a wake from suspend.