andrewescobar.com— Awesome hack that enable "Safe Sleep" as found on new PowerBooks, which allows Macs to save the current session and hibernate without a power source.
Nov 12, 2005View in Crawl 4
I 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.
I 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.
xorvious - 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 :-)
So, 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.
jasonqgNov 12, 2005
Alternative instructions here with scripts to run:<a class="user" href="http://matt.ucc.asn.au/apple/machibernate.html">http://matt.ucc.asn.au/apple/machibernate.html</a>
swindmillNov 12, 2005
I 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.
flyinace2000Nov 12, 2005
This 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.
twoslickNov 12, 2005
I 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.
vikramkrNov 12, 2005
I'm confused as to what to do. I have a Mac mini. Can anyone help me please?
apotropaicNov 13, 2005
apples can't do this?? hmm... oh well no that many people use it anyway
jameswfrostNov 13, 2005
xorvious - 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 :-)
Closed AccountNov 13, 2005
So, 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.
jay42Nov 13, 2005
Very cool, worked on my powerbook. dug