[P1] More on ibook sleep

[Brian Pearce]

> If the computer is asleep the RAM is getting a small trickle so the 
> contents
> don't erase and, of course, the little 'I am asleep' diode pulses. 
> Asleep or
> off, a small trickle is feeding PRAM and the clock. Either way the 
> battery
> is slowly being used. My educated guess is that sleeping uses nearly 
> twice
> as much energy. In either case, it isn't much.

I think that depends on how much you use the iBook, and how long it's 
kept in sleep mode. I've had my iBook with a partial charge go three or 
four *days* in sleep mode -- so while there is power consumption, it's 
obviously very, *very* small in comparison to normal use.

BRIAN/bpearce at cloud9.net