I mostly hibernate. Much faster than booting from scratch. It will depend how much ram it needs to spool to and from disk however (I only have 2GB in my laptop).
Alister Christie Computers for People Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266 http://www.salespartner.co.nz PO Box 13085 Johnsonville Wellington John Bird wrote: > Normally Suspend/Sleep. If I go travelling I Hibernate, and restart every > time Windows updates or Firewall updates ask me to - which is fairly often. > > Suspend is fast. Get around suspend/resume losses by saving everything > before suspend, and logging titles of open windows in case it don't resume. > (Was annoying enough I wrote a program to do logging and suspend in one > hit). > > I don't know if MS or anyone else has ever really nailed suspend. The Vista > sleep/suspend is a I think a hybrid where some (but not all) is saved to > disk before sleeping. After a day or more off, you find it has > automatically hibernated - whether it has to fire up again to do that and > overheat if its in a bag I don't know (XP was likely to do that). > > I suspect from experience its good to leave it run until it really is off > before picking it up - movement of the HD while going to sleep may make it > less likely to resume > > What are others experience with suspend/sleep? Is OSX better - I get the > impression it may be. Linux? > > John > > _______________________________________________ > NZ Borland Developers Group Offtopic mailing list > Post: [email protected] > Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/offtopic > Unsubscribe: send an email to [email protected] with > Subject: unsubscribe > > _______________________________________________ NZ Borland Developers Group Offtopic mailing list Post: [email protected] Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/offtopic Unsubscribe: send an email to [email protected] with Subject: unsubscribe
