Over the years on most of the Macs I've had, and most of the systems they've been running on, I've had sleepingproblems of the coma-kind. I sort of gave up on having a Mac now, that can reliably be put to sleep and be trusted to wake up again. Therefore I hardly bother anymore to even try to put it to sleep when I get myself a new Mac. As some other members on the list I consider this issue to be of minor importance when deciding on an upgradepath for my cube. Just for the statistics of this subject! /Peer