Hibernate alternative?

[texanpenguin]

Apple's Safe Sleep (a feature on all the new Intel Macs, and a quiet feature of some of the previous laptops, IIRC), is fine at Safe Sleep (or Hibernate).

One important consideration, always, is that you don't perform the safe sleep (or Hibernate in Windows) while you're connected to any remote devices, or are performing some sort of processing task.

[Krevinek]

Originally Posted by texanpenguin

One important consideration, always, is that you don't perform the safe sleep (or Hibernate in Windows) while you're connected to any remote devices, or are performing some sort of processing task.

Safe Sleep isn't an equal to Hibernate. It simply does the same routine so that if your machine /does/ lose power, you can restore the system back to where it was before you put it to sleep. It isn't something you activate yourself, just something that 'happens'.

[HateEternal]

I have never had any problems with hibernate on my Acer laptop. I actually really like it because if I need to switch batteries I can just hibernate, pop the battery out and load it back up. It is a nice feature to have. My laptop actually will sleep then hibernate if it has been sleeping too long... it freaked me out the first time it did it because it was sleeping then all of a sudden the fan kicked on.

I have actually had more problems with sleeping on my G5 than I have with hibernate on my PC.

I read this thread expecting a discussion about a different kind of hibernate but I guess it wouldn't have really fit in this forum anyways.