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Why wouldn't they just logout and let auto-sleep save energy? Logging in can't take more than a few seconds on a reasonable modern desktop or laptop. Seems lik
by cpr 18y ago
Why wouldn't they just logout and let auto-sleep save energy? Logging in can't take more than a few seconds on a reasonable modern desktop or laptop.
Seems like this is really a failure of the Wintel monopoly to produce reasonable machines that auto-sleep.
(Whoops, is my Apple fanboiismo showing? ;-)
- jrockway 18y agoSeems like this is really a failure of the Wintel monopoly to produce reasonable machines that auto-sleep. (Whoops, is my Apple fanboiismo showing? ;-) Considering the hardware is exactly the same as the "wintel monopoly" machines, yes.
- cpr 18y agoNo, considering it's software that does the work (the Windows portion of Wintel).
- jrockway 18y agoActually, it's the software in the ACPI tables that does the work. Presumably the BIOS provides the same information to both Windows and OS X (although some BIOSes intentionally lie to Linux).