On 14/11/05 at 06:05 -0800, Michaelwagner wrote
danco Wrote:
Waking a system doesn't seem to me anything like rebooting. Everything
is back to where it was before sleep within a few seconds. This is on a
Mac.
I don't know how WOL is implemented on a Mac, but on a PC clone, the
entire memory and CPU are powered down, the disk is powered down,
almost all but a small amount of logic on the network card are powered
down.
I think there must be major differences here between Mac and Windows.
What about Linux?
There is nothing actually called "hibernate" on the Mac, I think
"sleep" on the Mac is somewhere between "sleep" and "hibernate" on
Windows, but I don't know Windows. Certainly Mac wake from sleep is
fast. I just tried putting my Mac to sleep in the middle of writing
this email, and it took less than ten seconds to wake up, with a
whole lot of other programs open. That's fast enough for Wake on LAN
to be useful, even if it may be, as you imply, not totally necessary.
--
Daniel Cohen
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