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IME experience, at least on HP G8 EliteBooks, both AMD and Intel, Linux actually keeps the machine quiet and cool during "modern standby". With Windows, it abso
by vladvasiliu 2y ago
IME experience, at least on HP G8 EliteBooks, both AMD and Intel, Linux actually keeps the machine quiet and cool during "modern standby". With Windows, it absolutely will turn on the fans at some point, and the machine absolutely will get hot for whatever reason.
This seems to have been fixed for a while now (say a year or so), but when the Intel machine was new, Windows would sometimes not wake up from sleep, or if did, the screen would be garbled.
The AMD still has an issue where Windows will "unexpectedly shutdown" (according to the event log) during modern standby. This happens every single time I leave it on standby during the night. This is an almost four-year-old machine by now, not some brand-spanking-new thing, which works otherwise perfectly, especially on Linux.
- daft_pink 2y agoIt’s not so much the heat that bothers most people, but the fact that when you close the lid of a windows laptop and throw it in your backpack, it will be totally out of battery, be running and you have to actually physically turn it off. Simply close the lid ane leave it in your backpack on a Mac and it will still retain most of it’s charge. I think most people intend their laptop to retain it’s charge when they close the lid and standby used to do this, but on windows machines, it really doesn’t anymore. It should really write all the ram to hd after a short period of time in your backpack instead of quickly depleting the battery.
- vladvasiliu 2y ago> It should really write all the ram to hd after a short period of time in your backpack instead of quickly depleting the battery. In the default config on my machine, it actually starts to hibernate if it's asleep and unplugged for a while. Don't know what the delay is.