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10.4: Enable safe sleep on some older Macs
Authored by: TrumpetPower! on Nov 19, '05 11:38:21AM

Works perfectly on my 12" 1 GHz PowerBook G4 (PowerBook6,2) w/ 1.25 Gbytes RAM.

I've got an external display attached, and it often takes the PowerBook a few extra seconds to detect the display on wake, even if it was attached when it was put to sleep (and not disconnected while sleeping). The time it took to wake from Safe Sleep really didn't feel any longer than usual.

My PowerBook is old enough that the two batteries I got with the computer just don't hold the same charge they used to. On more than one occasion I've been quite inconvenienced by having to find a power outlet, shut down, or whatever just to deal with a battery swap. I'm simply delighted that this is now solved!

My parents have a relatively new eMac. Their power is also somewhat unreliable, tending to spikes and drops and many more outages than I have here. They just got an immortal power supply with voltage regulation to clean the power. I'll be trying this out on their computer the next time I'm there; it could mean that they'll never notice a power problem again, unless they actually try to use the computer when it's out.

Cheers,

b&

P.S. I'm doing a cut-and-paste of these comments between Andrew's original blog entry and Mac OS X Hints. No, it's not a case of deja-vu, sorry. b&



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10.4: Enable safe sleep on some older Macs
Authored by: KenaiTheMacFan on Nov 21, '05 10:56:06AM

immortal power supply? :D
do you mean uninterruptible power supply?;)

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Ian



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