[G4] Sleep, Different Kinds

Brian Silverio bsilverio at necc.mass.edu
Wed Feb 11 06:41:55 PST 2004


Quoting Anne Keller-Smith <earthpigz at earthlink.net>:

> Just to make sure I've got it -
> 
> Display sleep is very light, just the monitor only, all other processes
> are up to full speed.
> 
> Hard disk sleep is a medium state, all running processes continue and
> if they access a disk that disk wakes up.
> 
> System sleep is very deep, nothing can happen until you wake it up.
> 
> To do backups then I should let it do display sleep and hard disk sleep
> but UNCHECK the "put computer to sleep when it is inactive" option.
> 
> 

Anne,
You have it perfectly!

Brian Silverio


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