On Fri, 3 Dec 1999, Ian Collier wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 03, 1999 at 11:54:00AM -0500, billy ball wrote:
> > also note that sleep/hibernate/deep suspend will still draw power (albeit
> > at a slow rate)...
>
> The hibernate or 'suspend to disk' mode should not draw any power because
> the machine is physically switched off. (Or maybe your laptop is different
> from mine.) However, the battery will very slowly leak of its own accord,
> of course.
that's what i initially thought, but apparently, according to Sony (in the
notebook's manual) there is some draw... to be honest, i have not measured
or tested how long the box can hibernate (although i did do this with the
suspend mode, and it was something like 8 hours)... interestingly, there
are several ways to save power: reduce screen brightness; turn off the
hard drive; put LCD in video standby; suspend; and hibernate (all of which
work with Linux)... which makes this laptop (with a 'real' internal modem,
working sound, and 1024x768 @16bpp) a very nice Linux portable!
regards
>
> imc
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