Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade wrote:
Having gotten used to both of these features being present on my PowerBook, I find myself annoyed when I'd like to make use of them elsewhere. Apple's "suspend" implementation, though, essentially does a suspend-to-ram-and-write-to-disk-just-in-case. Not as optimal, as there are definitely times where I would much rather suspend to disk and be done with it (and not drain the battery overnight while it's in my bag), but it does the job, should the battery die while it's suspended.
The big issue with a Powerbook is that it has a crap Apple-made chipset in it which still sucks down quite a lot of power in standby.
The new MacBooks burn almost no battery in standby when you shut the lid because they use standard x86 chipsets. I can close the lid and come back 2 days later and it still says 100% on the battery.
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