

Shane Hathaway shane at
Tue Jan 22 01:08:48 MST 2008

Michael L Torrie wrote:
> You've inadvertently confirmed what I am coming to fear.  That
> interested to hear of your experiences with this.

My Thinkpad T43, running Gentoo, suspends to RAM within 5 seconds after 
I shut the lid.  Resuming takes about 10 seconds, I think.  Sleeping is 
reliable enough that I don't think twice anymore about shutting the lid 
and picking up the laptop any time I like.  There are rare times when I 
can't resume (the screen comes on but nothing happens until I hard 
reset), but I think that only happens when the battery jiggles a little 
loose during transport.

My wife's laptop also tries to suspend to RAM when she shuts it, but 
about half the time it runs into some bug and stays on.  However, it 
seems to have the same bug in both Windows and Linux.  I'm glad we got a 
Durabook for her, since it has survived 3 foot falls onto a stone tile 
floor with hardly a scratch.  However, since it's not a very popular 
brand, it's hard to get support for hardware bugs.

> resume.  Powering on and off the entire laptop (which is what hibernate
> I've talked to think hibernation is good enough.

How long can a disconnected Mac typically sleep without running its 
laptop that could automatically hibernate itself after a few hours of 


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