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Article #1788Re: Sleep mode dangers?
From: Robin Jackson
Date: Sat, 31 Jan 1998 00:00
Date: Sat, 31 Jan 1998 00:00
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In article <B0F78B659668117E65@195.173.76.4>, ben@lovejoy.demon.co.uk (Ben Lovejoy) wrote: >Subject: Sleep mode dangers? >From: Ben Lovejoy >Organization: Not bad, usually, sometimes a bit sloppy >Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 13:51:33 +0000 >Newsgroups: demon.tech.mac > >Assuming that a PowerBook is used daily, so the battery won't run flat, are >there any dangers in never shutting it down, but merely closing the lid to >put it into sleep mode? > >Ben, the man too impatient to wait for his machine to start-up :-) I don't know the answer BUT I have been using a Powerbook 520, 3400 or now G3 for around 3 years. I seldom bother to shutdown my system. I very often cart the thing around in my boot in sleep mode and so far (touch wood) have never had any problems. And I can be working in an instant..... Good luck. Robin
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10b5a2,c9a3394051c99a37 X-Google-Attributes: gid10b5a2,public From: robin@moneypit.demon.co.ku (Robin Jackson) Subject: Re: Sleep mode dangers? Date: 1998/01/31 Message-ID: <B0F967F79668C1C74@moneypit.demon.co.uk> X-Deja-AN: 320963645 References: <B0F78B659668117E65@195.173.76.4> X-NNTP-Posting-Host: moneypit.demon.co.uk [158.152.46.161] Newsgroups: demon.tech.mac