The death of Hibernate?

[Steven Stern]

On 05/17/2012 11:08 AM, Reindl Harald wrote:
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> Am 17.05.2012 17:52, schrieb Steve Underwood:
>> On 05/17/2012 11:15 PM, Tim wrote:
>>> On Thu, 2012-05-17 at 08:24 -0500, Michael Cronenworth wrote:
>>>> Hibernate and suspend are no longer necessary or helpful functions
>>>> either (on machines sold today).
>>> I suspend on my Laptop, all the time.  Quite apart from the speed issue,
>>> it's handy to be able to halt and resume, everything.
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>> Quite right. Only someone who never uses a laptop could think hibernate and suspend are no longer needed.
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> sure?
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> i used a laptop from 2003 until 2011 as my main working machine
> all the day and never came to the idea write a 6 GB to a slow
> mobile-disk and load it the next time instead simply shutdown/boot
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Wouldn't it be A Wonderful Thing if a Fedora laptop (or even a Windows
laptop) could suspend and restart as effortlessly as a MacBook?  When I
close the lid on my MacBook, I am completely confident it will work when
I pop it back open.

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-- Steve