Sleep in OS X is really not equivalent to Hibernate in Windows. In Sleep mode, an Apple laptop still provides power to the RAM to keep the contents active. This makes for much faster wake-up times, but gradual battery drain. The closest thing to Hibernate in OS X is called Safe Sleep (if you've ever let your laptop battery completely die while running, you've seen Safe Sleep before).
Safe Sleep writes the content of your RAM to your boot disk, and then shuts off power to the machine (i.e. no battery usage). When you wake it back up, it copies the content back to your RAM. Takes longer to wake up, but you can Safe Sleep indefinitely without power.
You can permanently enable Safe Sleep from Terminal, or use this handy widget to do it each time.
Yes exactly both hibernate and safe sleep do the same thing. The difference is that safe sleep is automatic and not normally a selection presented to the user.
I think the automatic method is a better arrangement personally.
Yes exactly both hibernate and safe sleep do the same thing. The difference is that safe sleep is automatic and not normally a selection presented to the user.
I think the automatic method is a better arrangement personally.
yes, i like how people told me how i didn't know about a program that APPLE DOES NOT SUPPORT holy shit.....
i mean, when i use a Mac i expect Apple to cover everything, which they pretty much do
I hope they fix Safari 5.0.1. I have noticed that many web pages take much longer to load than they do on Google Chrome or Firefox (Mac versions, of course). The browser also crashes frequently. For more information, read the posts on Safari in the Apple Communities.
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Sleep in OS X is really not equivalent to Hibernate in Windows. In Sleep mode, an Apple laptop still provides power to the RAM to keep the contents active. This makes for much faster wake-up times, but gradual battery drain. The closest thing to Hibernate in OS X is called Safe Sleep (if you've ever let your laptop battery completely die while running, you've seen Safe Sleep before).
Safe Sleep writes the content of your RAM to your boot disk, and then shuts off power to the machine (i.e. no battery usage). When you wake it back up, it copies the content back to your RAM. Takes longer to wake up, but you can Safe Sleep indefinitely without power.
You can permanently enable Safe Sleep from Terminal, or use this handy widget to do it each time.
http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashb...deepsleep.html
Yes exactly both hibernate and safe sleep do the same thing. The difference is that safe sleep is automatic and not normally a selection presented to the user.
I think the automatic method is a better arrangement personally.
Yes exactly both hibernate and safe sleep do the same thing. The difference is that safe sleep is automatic and not normally a selection presented to the user.
I think the automatic method is a better arrangement personally.
yes, i like how people told me how i didn't know about a program that APPLE DOES NOT SUPPORT holy shit.....
i mean, when i use a Mac i expect Apple to cover everything, which they pretty much do