Hibernation – Mac Vs. PC

Good point! I use the hibernate function on my comp everyday -- it sure is a time-saver!

I love Mac period!

JOHN CHOW! You can't compare hibernation with sleep mode. That's like comparing an apple to an orange. This is an invalid comparison. Vista has a sleep mode exactly like Mac, and they both can be slept upon lid closing and awake upon lid opening. Except, for windows, you have a choice to set it to sleep, hibernate, do nothing, etc... upon lid closing. This is a ridiculous comparison.

Vista vs. Windows 95, Vista would still suck.

I am waiting to win one on Shoemoney by commenting :)

Keep rubbing you MAC in my face eh John? lol

That is the slowest Vista system I have ever seen and Matt is correct here. The comparison isn't accurate because Hibernate is a full backup of everything to the hard drive and "sleep" just keeps the RAM powered so everything stays in memory.

Vista has a sleep mode, you click start and then the power button that is sort of brownish colored.

It is interesting to think about things like hibernation, as an everyday thing that you simply take for granted. I've been using computers for a while, and I cannot remember the last time that I actually shut down my computer completely. I guess that leaving it on all the time wastes a lot of energy, but I am at my computer so often that it would be a pain to fully shut my computer down every time I get on or off of it. Great video John.

Wooohhoooo.... You can not compare apples with oranges....

In Vista there is a sleep mode use that one and it fast and not faster than Mac.....

Mac fan boys use some sense when comparing similar functions.....

John, you should be a Mac spokesperson.

Although I agree with some of the commenters, WinDoze sleep mode is closer to that option than Hibernation.

John, I think you might be missing something.

The main option in Vista is "Sleep", this option will do the same as hibernate, but only takes about 5-10 seconds to sleep, and about 5-10 seconds to wake up!

This is because"Sleep" saves the ram,... and keep it in the ram.

Where hibernate, copies all information from the ram to the HDD, and then back at start up.

This takes time. I have 4GB of RAM in my Dell laptop, so copying 4GB to the HDD and back takes a lot of time.

The bottleneck here is the speed of the HHD, and not the operating system.

The Mac "sleep" mode you showed, is the same as the Vista "Sleep", ie: maintaining the ram contents.

My Dell, sleeps in 5seconds, when I close the lid, and is back in less than 5seconds.

Don't confuse hibernate with "sleep". You could even see the option on Ashley's computer!

I got a Sony Vaio with XP that I set to go into true hibernation when I hit the power button. It takes about 10 seconds to finish. I hit the power button to pull it up again and it's all of 10 seconds to get back to the desktop, even with the login prompt. I actually had to configure it to not go into standby or hibernate when I closed the lid as the laptop did that by default. It was a quick config though, using the power settings icon found in the taskbar.

Regardless of what it's called, the time it takes my MacBook to "wake" vs my old XP laptop is literally like night and day. Sometimes on my XP notebook it would never wake. This was also the case after a fresh format etc. Man, I am so happy to never have to deal with Windoze again... :)

Actually, Vista's Sleep mode and OS X's Sleep mode are identical. The contents of the RAM are saved to the hard drive and power is kept to the RAM. When you go to resume, it'll boot from RAM (unless it lost power or you changed the battery, in which case it'll boot from the hard drive).

What you've done is compared a cheetah to a turtle.

Awesome stuff. Use this feature every day on my notebook.

That was a great video. "I want a Mac now" :)

I'm lost, I didn't even know Ashley is your daughter O_O. I thought she was your sister or something.

-Mike

There are so many things wrong in this video, I don't know where to start.

1) Your daughter's PC is jacked somehow - there is no way hibernate should take that long to boot. Are you running the default Dell install? Be a good Dad, and remove all the crap they put on there ;)

2) On a working PC, coming out of hibernate should be almost instant. I tested it on mine, and it takes about 10 seconds

3) You weren't using hibernate on your Mac, you were using Stanby. Unless you hacked it or installed pmset to manually set it to hibernate. By default, MacOS will go into hibernate, but the RAM stays powered on. After a certain amount of time, it will go into hibernate mode

4) Mac sucks, so stop trying to justify your fanboyism ;)

yeh, mac is pretty good
my PC gets hanged after coming out of hibernation :(

Great review of Apple in general, should be a paid review...

yeah the mac wins this round . the mac does this simple task more efficiently.

Actually i use the hibernate function in my laptop
every day because i save time; therefore, i save and
money also becase time is money. Right?

Mario

Lol funny thing there John.. Thanks for the effort!

That's how to get a MacBook in and out of sleep mode. An iMac is a little different, but just as easy

Click the Apple logo on the top left and select "Sleep". To wake it up, just click the mouse.

To my knowledge, you can go into the settings in Windows and have the laptop enter hibernation mode when you close the lid too, getting it to boot back up when you open the lid. By default, this usually puts the laptop into standby rather than hibernation.

This makes me wonder, though, if sleep mode on a Mac is closer to Windows standby rather than Windows hibernation.

Good point! I use the hibernate function on my comp everyday - it definitely is a time-saver!

I am still waiting to get my first Mac.

Great video! Hilarious.....it will be interesting to see who wins the battle over PC's over the next couple of years.

Hilarious, I can't believe the timing on that is so different. Isn't there a way to improve the speed of Vista for Hibernation by using a USB Key?