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May 28, 2006

rivals

Sleep redux

Posted May. 28, ’06, 8:29 PM PT by Derik DeLong
Category | Apple » Rivals

Vista I can’t seem to remember anything anymore. I try to keep up to date with Microsoft’s Vista OS. As I read “Vista Beta 2 takes a sleeping pill”, I got a really strong case of deja vu.

Looking for a fast yet reliable way to shut down your machine and bring it back up just as speedily? Looks like Vista might just have the solution. The new Sleep power state is a combination of the Hibernate and Standby power modes and provides the best of both worlds.

Ok, Where have I heard this before?

Sleep combines the features of both - it writes data to RAM so that you get the speed benefit, but it also caches it to the hard drive in case of power failure. In such a scenario, Vista will actually kick in a resume from Sleep mode, using the data stored to disk instead. Neat.

Oh, wait, that’s right. That’s Safe Sleep. We’ve had that for a while now. In fact, there was a version of it in Mac OS 9.


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