Works Like You Do

I’m not going to categorize this as good or bad because I think it just IS.

I used to put my IBM in hibernate mode every time I shut it down. Whatever I had open would then open up when I started it up and away I went. The MAC allows you to just close the lid and it enters the sleep mode. IBM had this open but it drains the battery where hibernate saves all your settings to disk and then shuts off completely. I’m not so worried about the battery (yet) but the sleep mode doesn’t seem to handle relocation as well as hibernate did. It finds the new network most of the time but in the past two weeks, I’ve had to restart it several times. Everything is slow and some apps don’t want to come up. I try for awhile and then a restart seems to clear out the cobwebs.

As I said, I’m not sure it’s a bad thing but you need to be alert to it. Perhaps the lesson is to shut down whenever possible and you might not even notice this.