Stand by/Hibernate/Shut down?

Hi,
I use my W3V daily and usually shut it down when I go to sleep or when I know I won't be using for an extended period of time.

Are there any advantages/disadvantages to shutting down the notebook or putting it on standby?

And what exactly is the difference tween hibernate & stand by?

Just curious because I recently spoke to someone who rarely ever shuts down his notebook....

 

In Standby mode, power is saved by shutting down the hard drives, fans and monitors. These are high power consumption devices. The computer still uses power to save the data in memory, so you can restart very quickly (however, if power goes off while in this state, the data in memory will be lost).

In Hibernate mode, XP saves the data in memory to the hard disk. Then the power is cut off completely, so this preserves more battery life. When you restart, it takes a little longer because the data saved on the disk must be restored to memory. Of course, this method uses disk space to store the memory data.

 

So does hibernate save as much power as a complete shutdown? I would figure yes but just wanted to make sure. Thanks in advance.

 

Yes, in Hibernate, the pc is completely off, and uses no power. The only difference is that whatever was in memory (running apps, open files, etc...) was stored to the harddrive and will be re-loaded on startup, in effect leaving you right where you left off.

 

The only reason to use standby is that its faster to start up than hibernate.

 

First, thanks for the replies.

So, it sounds like alot of you guys put it on standby/hibernate instead of powering off... is that case?

 

I always reboot actually. Rebooting is good gets all the kinks out of the system. OS always runs better after a reboot.

 

I always Hibernate my notebook and always have been for years becasue, I think that the system starts up much faster then when you have to do a complete reboot,. How I Hibernate my system is by closing all programs and this makes the system boot up faster. I basically always seen it as a time saver when I used to own my pentium III-M system but now that I got my Z81sp, I am not sure if i can tell the diffrence in boot times between a full start-up and Hibernate start-up.

The only time I do a full system restart is when I am about to do something that's very CPU,GPU and memory intensive that way i can flush out all the bugs.

 

Yeah, I'm with Darkforce -- I close all apps, just like if I were shutting the system off, but then just hit [fn]f4 to hibernate. Press the power button to start, and everything is ready for me in just a few seconds. THis has always worked beautifully for me -- I use the computer a couple times a day in different locations, and having to wait for reboot every time gets old, fast (and so do I if I have to wait around that much! ). The only time I reboot is when the system starts to bog down.

 

Does the W3 automatically hibernate when you close the lid or do you have to manually hit the f4 key to hibernate?

 

If I'm working on an essay, I save obsessively and sometimes power the computer off. If I want to take a nap, I'll put it in standby or hibernate. If I'm leaving for class and taking my computer, I hibernate so that it starts up quickly.