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- mancat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"Is that sarcasm? To all you Windows users bashing this, understand this. Yes you have had hibernate for years, but its no where as good as Sleep is on the make. Sleep is instantaneous. Hibernate is not."
Huh? When I suspend my Windows laptop, it's sleeping in less than two seconds, and takes about as long to wake up. Hibernating usually takes about 10 seconds with 512MB memory. It will take longer if you have more memory, but only by a few seconds. - macattacks10, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Except in WIndows sometimes it doesn't like to work right. Beats me how well the Mac Safe Sleep works.
- jay42, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Very cool, worked on my powerbook. dug
- Flyinace2000, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This is good to have if you run low on battery (say under 20% and you put it to sleep and forget to plug it in over night.
- syobwoc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0From personal experiences, windows hibernating sometimes wouldn't come back on, so I just stopped using it.
- l0ne, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Works on iBook 933. Cool!
- jameswfrost, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0xorvious - if you had a mac, you'd see why mac users say sleep is amazing. I used to own a Dell laptop, and that wasn't terribly reliable when going to sleep, and took a while to do so (and wake up again). I've recently bought an iBook G4, and sleep is just brilliant. Close the lid, it's instantly asleep. Open it, and it's instantly back again. Fantastic. And it works every time. I love my iBook :-)
- swindmill, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I think the main difference b/t Windows hibernate and this (in my experience) is that sleep mode in OS X takes absolutely no time at all when putting to sleep or waking up. With my windows laptop, I'd shut the lid and it would take some time before it actually hibernated. Waking it up could often take an unreasonable amount of time. Waking up my powerbook is instantaneous.
- pfdogs, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I hibernate and unhibernate with my XP laptop everyday and have never had it freeze.
- JasonQG, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Alternative instructions here with scripts to run:
http://matt.ucc.asn.au/apple/machibernate.html - TwoSlick, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I just enabled this on my year old Powerbook, and it works great! There's been a few times I've put it to sleep and forgotten to plug it in for a few days. Would have been very useful then.
- StatusQuoRules, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0sweet! this rules
- diggbuddy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I have NEVER gotten hibernate to work well on the Dell laptops I've had at work, so I've deactivated that "feature."
I've been to meetings where the presenter failed to resurrect his hibernating Dell and we all wait while he ends up rebooting anyway.
Heck, the way sleep works on the Dell is annoying, too, so I never let mine sleep either. Of course, these days, the Dell is usually locked in my riser at my desk (still plugged in). I use my personal PowerBook to get actual work done and VNC into the Dell when I need to run something on Windows.
Sleep on my PowerBook is not perfect, but it is fast and works almost all of the time. I almost never shut my PowerBook down. - vikramkr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I'm confused as to what to do. I have a Mac mini. Can anyone help me please?
- Flyinace2000, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Just enabled it on my 15" PowerBook. Safe sleep worked like a charm. For you with 15/17" powerbooks they have some internal battery power that lets you do battery swaps without powering down. So to test it make sure you let it sit for more that 3 or 4 minutes.
- xorvious, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I use both types of power management S3 (suspend to RAM(sleep)) and S5 (suspend to disk(hibernate)) on my windows desktops and laptop, have been for years. I think its great that mac's can do this too, but it annoys me to see mac people trying to defend features that are old news, or make them sound "new and better" (more than one button?). Functional hardware innovation has never been apples strong point IMO, form over function anyone?
And why does the mac need 750 megs more space on the HD than the amount of physical memory in order to hibernate? What does it do with it? Anyway, my moral is sleep and hibernate are a great feature, especially with computer power consumption so out of control.
*dons flame resistant boxers* - karenin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0For most people, this is a needless complication and a mis-feature. If you want to stop working for a little while, put the mac to sleep, if you want to go away for a few days and have it use no power, turn it off. It will boot up from cold in about a minute, that's hardly a long time, and not much longer than the 40 seconds it takes to wake-up from this hibernate mode.
For those who are about to try the hack on other models, make sure you read the bit where he says in the article:
_You may have problems with a bad hibernate images, which may repeatedly kernel panic. _ - Gills, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0works a treat. but there should be a hibernate or safe sleep option in the apple menu
- andesco, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"I just enabled this on my PC five years ago. It's so cool."
Is that sarcasm? To all you Windows users bashing this, understand this. Yes you have had hibernate for years, but its no where as good as Sleep is on the make. Sleep is instantaneous. Hibernate is not.
Safe Sleep is just an extension of Sleep mode, for those very few times when you completely deplete the laptop battery, or want to move/unplug your desktop.
"You may have problems with a bad hibernate images, which may repeatedly kernel panic. " Its a very very odd occurrence. *If* it happens, it happens right away and you can just turn off and start up again. Chances are it will work fine. And plus, you shouldn't use this as a replacement to sleep (ex: "hibernatemode 1") just as an incase-*****-happens- backup plan.
"I'm confused as to what to do. I have a Mac mini. Can anyone help me please?"
I will help you in the comments section of the blog. - applejustworks, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0video available here
http://mymaf.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=101&pid=591&st=0&#entry591 - Sixcolors, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Personally if I'm not planning on using my PowerBook for more than three hours I shut it down. Boot up time in Tiger is minimal. Plus I've never left it unplugged for such an unGodly length of time that I'd worry about it dying completely. As long as it's on the desk, it's plugged in.
Interesting that it's even available though. - aquax, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Now the big question is, do you lose your überleet uptime?
I wish there was a way to have a choice between regular sleep and this. Between classes, I'd prefer regular sleep, but on the weekends, or sometimes overnight, hibernation sleep would be cool. - swindmill, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0I guess I should clarify: I was referring to regular sleep vs. hibernation. I don't really see the need for safe sleep, as it never uses more than 1% or 2% of battery power
- bedouin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0So, why is this being introduced into OS X? Is it because x86-based Macs will lose instantaneous sleep? I believe I read somewhere once that Windows can't implement sleep similar to Macs because of architectural limitations.
- tsupersonic, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Nice, I use hibernation on my XP laptop everyday. It works beautifully, and the (Toshiba) Notebook glows orange when it is on Standy which is cool, too. It works very nice too.
- lgc90, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0works like a charm, and just what i needed
- mancat, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0I just enabled this on my PC five years ago. It's so cool.
- balazs, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0Awesome, got it working for my mac mini. This is good when i need to move it from one room to the other or Im cleaning my desk. Saves me having to restart everything. Cool.
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http://theminiblog.co.uk/ - apotropaic, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0apples can't do this?? hmm... oh well no that many people use it anyway
- ricodued, on 10/12/2007, -4/+0Ah, what an awesome hack.
Did any one catch the awesome hack Microsoft did for Windows that has allowed this for the last several (if not more) years? - MellerTime, on 10/12/2007, -4/+0Now now rico... You know the Mac-humpers in the crowd aren't going to like it when you point out one of the many, many, many areas in which Microsoft DIDN'T copy Apple... Please, let's just not even get them started...
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