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why sleep?
Authored by: DavidRavenMoon on May 03, '02 06:43:07PM

If a draining battery is an issue, why put your Powerbook to sleep over night anyway? Just shut it down. Surely an extra minute in the morning to boot can't be that much of an issue! I think sleep was intended for short term usage.

Just my 2ยข :)



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why sleep?
Authored by: bhines on May 04, '02 08:57:01AM

Um, you think wrong. This is a bug. You should be able to sleep for a very very long time.

Your justification is silly. Users should be able to use their machines like they are intended.



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Sleep is a wonderful option...
Authored by: robg on May 04, '02 09:43:03AM

On machines where it works, it's great. I've left our iBook in sleep mode and unplugged for the better part of a week -- it only lost about 30% of its battery. Starting up takes longer, power cycles a bunch of components, and has no real benefit that I can think of other than avoiding this bug.

But the beauty of Darwin's open source roots is that someone was able to engineer a fix and release it on their own schedule, instead of waiting on Apple.

-rob.



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