I've got a dell inspiron and acidentally went into suspend mode for 2 days and the battery was dead when I restarted it, thats why I think the battery is being used. I also notice in suspend mode if I'm not plugged in the battery light flashes.
-----Original Message----- From: Jerry Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 3:20 PM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: Which is better It depends. My understanding is that most recent laptops actually do a "shutdown", with no battery power being used when off, in "suspend" mode. All of the open apps and memory is cached to hard drive, and on "unsuspend", it reloads everything for you. I often use suspend, and haven't noticed battery life being shortened noticably. If suspend is an "instant" restart, then I am totally wrong, but mine takes a minute after a long suspend. (Sony Vaio) As far as wear-and-tear, I would think they were the same (hard drive spin down and lock, spin up, memory checks, screen power down/power up) Of course, if suspend mode uses battery, then the battery life (long term rechargebility) might suffer, since you will need to recharge it more often. Making this up as I go, Jerry Johnson >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/02/02 02:59PM >>> I'm curious.... if I work on my laptop day after day.. is it better to close everything and shut down or simply do a suspend? I know suspendstill uses battery power but what is less wear and tear on my computer? ______________________________________________________________________ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
