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Mac Hibernate

by 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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3 Comments for this entry

  • Vihung

    Surely the whole thing about Mac laptops is that they ‘hibernate’ (deep sleep) automatically only when they really need to

  • Frank Kim

    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.

  • Mike Hardy

    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…

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