As the heading says. With a current-model iBook G4, I can close the lid, wait for the pulsing sleep light to come on, remove the battery (and AC adapter if connected) - and then put back the battery, press the power button, and watch the machine re-emerge from sleep. Very nice - and something that every x86 laptop has had for years.

Uhh, you're talking about "Hibernate" right?

But has every Wintel laptop had the ability to be in regular "sleep" mode from which you can wake up in less than a second (actually, Wintel "sleep" is never that quick to wake up), then go into "hibernate" when the battery is running low or is suddenly removed?

I didn't think so.

I agree that not being able to selectively "force" a hybernate-like mode barring removing the battery after sleep is kinda sucky, but in terms of implementation, I love SafeSleep much better than what I can get on my Wintel machines right now (that is, each time I have to choose between sleep and hibernate)


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