Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
> I think Vista has a feature where it saves the RAM contents to disk and gets
> into sleep (not hibernate) mode. 

Yeah. They stole that from OSX. ;-)

> Or, maybe, the feature was that when it's running low on battery, it wakes
> up, saves RAM to disk, and hibernates.

That's the old way that XP uses. Works poorly if you set up the timings 
wrong, as waking and spinning up the disk and such kills the battery half 
way thru hibernating if you do it wrong.

In Vista, sleep *looks* like it goes to sleep (turns off screen and 
speakers, etc, rather than the XP way of showing you a progress bar), then 
saves the RAM to disk, then actually goes to sleep. You can set it to go to 
full hibernate after some time, so you save lots of battery if you're not 
coming back to it.

Then there's "Away mode", which means hitting the sleep button turns off the 
screen and speakers, tells anyone who cares that you're "away", and then ... 
leaves the power on.  For people who are running servers on their machine 
but want it to look like they're being energy-efficient, I guess.

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