[Ti] sleep mode - Battery life

[Christoph Pistor]

Just my two cents on this debate;

My PB180c, bought in 1994, was/is sleeping most of its entire life. 
Except for one hardrive nothing was ever replaced. Now that my kids are 
using it, the first thing they learned was not to shut the computer off, 
but to press the sleep mode menu option when they are done.

C.

Glenn L. Austin wrote:
> on 6/6/2003 2:12 AM, wp at dtpoperator at wp.pl wrote:
> 
> 
>>by me sweet medicine is still medicine and it isn't a candy ...
>>
>>sleep mode isn't the way to save the time (booting the system)
>>
>>sleep is for few minutes pause
>>
>>if Im going to stop the work for more just shut down
> 
> 
> I rarely shut down (or ever reboot) any more.  Sleeping Macs is fine even
> for extended periods of time.  I've left my computer sleeping for a whole
> weekend when I've been out of town.  On the Mac, sleep is wonderful.
> 
> On the other hand, my experiences with Wintel and suspend/standby
> (equivalent to sleep) has been disasterous (corrupted disks).  I notice that
> XP doesn't even let me suspend anymore, just hibernate or shut down.  Could
> it be that Microsoft has determined that suspend/standby doesn't work?
>