When I actively worked with the Pismo, I rarely restarted it - the machine had 50+ days of uptime, always with the two batteries attached. And I lugged the machine everywhere I went in the college campus.
I don't like to leave my iMac sleeping, especially when I'm not home, because there are a lot of power spikes in the town I live, and also now with Snow Leopard the machine starts a lot faster than it used to - waiting for the computer to be ready is no longer an issue! The power management during sleep varies from brand to brand - my Pismo used very little power while asleep, but my Asus netbook drains the battery fairly quickly. It can eat up all the charge when asleep for as little time as a day! MM On Mar 4, 2:43 pm, Ben Dinger <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 07:46:56PM -0800, Austin Leeds wrote: > > Alas, I made a noble sacrifice for my accumulated three days of > > uptime: I pitted one of my college's laptops vs. my Pismo to see which > > could start up and get to MS Word faster. > > Guess which one won… by a long shot. ;-) > > Hah! I was just commenting this morning to one of my techs that my > 550mhz TiBook Opens Word:Mac faster than my Quad-Core Windows 7 desktop > opens Word 2010. > > Granted, the comparisons and speed increases go completely away after > that, but dangit - it still wins at something! :) > > -- > Ben Dinger > [email protected] -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Books, a group for those using G3 iBooks and PowerBooks (we run a separate list for G4 'Books). The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g-books Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/
