Submit Hint Search The Forums LinksStatsPollsHeadlinesRSS
14,000 hints and counting!


Click here to return to the 'safe sleep do active EVERYTIME you close the lid come on!' hint
The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. This site is not responsible for what they say.
safe sleep do active EVERYTIME you close the lid come on!
Authored by: lokon1979 on Dec 07, '06 09:08:45AM
any new powerbook, macbook and macbook pro that support safe sleep right from the factory, do enter safe sleep EVERY TIME when you close the lid! i can't believe that there are still so many people mix up about that!

please just read the apple support page:
http://search.info.apple.com/?search=Go&lr=lang_en&kword=&type=&newstype=&q=safe%20sleep

some scripts can toggle the safe sleep (or call it hibernate if you insist) just let you put the computer into safe sleep WITHOUT closing the lid, but no matter you close the lid or use scripts to put the computer to sleep, it give you same result - safe sleep. you can then remove the battery, next time it power up, the system will restore to the state before sleep.

and there are some method to active safe sleep on some older powerbook, so that they will do safe sleep EVERYTIME you close the lid.

[ Reply to This | # ]
safe sleep do active EVERYTIME you close the lid come on!
Authored by: mark hunte on Dec 12, '06 11:52:52AM
I agree with Derivatize, I did not understand safe sleep, I think for the same
reason Derivatize has a problem with this hint. Reading misinfo.

When I first heard of 'hibernate' It was in the form of I had to switch it on. Using command line.
My mac is a G4 PPC 1.5ghz. 'hibernate' was new thing as far as I remember well after I got my PB.
I did not apply 'On by default' to my Mac, because I am sure in the past my battery has run down and the Mac had to be fully booted up. Hence the hint.

This seems to have changed without me realising that my Mac now seems to have 'hibernate' /safe sleep on by default.

I can also understand Derivatize frustration in some of the hints that get posted, I myself have complained in the past.
And to my horror I have contributed a bad hint.

But I do believe that one point of the comments is to have the people who read the hints is to help in verifying and expanding upon them.

As to trusting the backup Battery, its a moot point, but I still would not want to trust it. Maybe someone should really explain Why I should.
Are there any pros and cons of using the Backup Battery like this.

---
mh

[ Reply to This | # ]