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Just wait. The newer laptops don't have S3 in the bios at all.
by kenmacd 5y ago
Just wait. The newer laptops don't have S3 in the bios at all.
- cmurf 5y agoTrue but you can enable it on some laptops by telling the firmware setup that your OS is Linux. I'm not sure what Linux S2idle is in ACPI lingo, but that's what Linux uses on my newest lapop by default. S3 (suspend-to-RAM) is not available to the kernel. And yet it's a power hog compared to just not using the laptop and letting the display backlight turn off, roughly 1% battery life loss per hour in S2idle. Whereas it's about 0.5% battery life loss per hour in whatever Windows 10 is doing for laptop lid close.