Steven Buehler wrote:
> On 12/22/05, Andrew Barber <tuorum@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> But, here's a kicker: I shut the lid and suspend it
>> all the time. So really the uptime is like 2 minutes
>> or so while typing this, but the image has been online
>> for all that time. So if I shut the lid on this Mac
>> and leave it plugged, the uptime should show 7 years
>> if I turn it on in 7 years. So I could have an
>> absurdly high uptime and it never actually be up.
>>
>
> Your PowerBook is still powered and running when the lid is closed,
> just on a very small amount of power, and some processes continue to
> run even with the lid closed. Macs don't have a hibernate feature
> like Windows and more recent Linux distros have.
>
> 19:09 up 2 days, 20:23, 2 users, load averages: 2.35 1.08 1.31
>
Actually, the latest Tiger updates have a true hibernate-to-disk mode
(Apple calls it "Safe Sleep") that works with even my 1Ghz 12" PowerBook.
http://ian.blenke.com/mac/osx/tiger/safe/sleep/suspend/disk/how-to-safe-sleep-your-mac.html
So while it _was_ true that no Macs did suspend-to-disk, newer Macs
_can_, though there are caveats, and this is rather new.
- Ian C. Blenke <ian@blenke.com> http://ian.blenke.com/
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