Mac Hibernate
by Frank Kim on Jan.07, 2009, under Mac
I tried to make the Mac hibernate based on this article, Make my Macbook Pro Hibernate. Unfortunately it did not work and I am wondering if it is because this article is older and maybe it does not work for Mac OS X Leopard.
In the end I have gotten used to not having hibernate on the Mac since start up and shutdown are so fast.
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January 8th, 2009 on 9:00 AM
Surely the whole thing about Mac laptops is that they ‘hibernate’ (deep sleep) automatically only when they really need to
January 8th, 2009 on 9:41 AM
That’s true. But when the Mac is in a “deep sleep” it is still consuming power while when a PC is in hibernate it is not consuming power. This is why I end up shutting down my Mac every night.
January 21st, 2009 on 5:01 PM
I was under the impression there are two sleep modes (same as in other PCs) – sleep-to-ram and sleep-to-disk. When you shut the lid it auto-sleeps-to-ram by default, and if it runs low on power (as sleep-to-ram does draw power to refresh the ram banks) it will auto-wake long enough to sleep-to-disk.
I’ve seen mine do that.
http://guides.macrumors.com/Your_Mac_and_Sleep_Mode
The only reason I could see to want to change it is if you want it to not use any power overnight but resume, so that you can use it on battery at 100% in the morning resumed.
If that’s the case, you want the deep sleep widget, but yeah – not supported…