Never has one idea had so many names: software suspend safe sleep hibernation (Windows) It's the state that your Mac is in when: 1) All the memory has been written to disk 2) No battery is being used at all I found an app: Deep Sleep http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/20120 which supposedly does this, but what I want to be able to do is run it via shell script (so that after my nightly backups the computer will go into this mode). Anyone know if this is possible?