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What is the best state to use for my tablet?

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archcommus

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I just got an HP Tablet PC tc4200. I usually use it in one class, then maybe another ten minutes later, then maybe another three hours later, then sometimes I have to only use it for a few minutes, or sometimes an hour or more, etc. What state(s) would you recommend putting it in during all these cases? Standby for the ten minute breaks between classes? And hibernate in all other cases? Is it bad to leave any laptop on for too many hours for heat reasons? Please give any comments on this, thanks.
 
Standby is nice for short breaks. Hibernate is as good as turning the thing off(except for the fact that Windows doesn't get that shiny, clean, just-rebooted feel after waking up from hibernate). As long as it has air around it, i.e. isn't shoved in a laptop bag, or carry sleeve, or anything like that, a decent laptop should be able to run continously, particularly if it isn't running at close to full utilization. Of course, a fan only has so much life in it, so if you want to hand this thing down to your grandchildren, there is no real reason to run it all night.
 
I hibernate on lid close, it only takes 3-5 seconds to come out of hibernation, so I don't see the point in standby anymore.
 
Originally posted by: ND40oz
I hibernate on lid close, it only takes 3-5 seconds to come out of hibernation, so I don't see the point in standby anymore.
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3-5 seconds???? :Q:Q:Q:Q:Q:Q:Q:Q:Q What do you have like 256MB RAM? 😛

I standby 24/7. I rarely Hibernate; Standby uses so little power if you have a decent battery, why wait?
 
See this is what I was wondering. I figured I shouldn't leave it in standby 24/7, because it's still technically on, and laptops shouldn't be on all the time like that, right?
 
Might sound retarded, but what's the difference between standby and hibernate? I see standby in the shutdown menu, but no hibernate. Does it go into "hibernate" when I close the lid?
(This is my first laptop)
 
Hibernate turns the laptop off just as turning it off normally does, but before shutting down it saves the state of the memory to the hard drive, and upon turning it back on, loads that instead of loading the OS fresh. As a result in boots up quicker and your open programs, etc. are still open.

Standby is simply a low power state. The laptop is still on.
 
Originally posted by: fbrdphreak
Originally posted by: ND40oz
I hibernate on lid close, it only takes 3-5 seconds to come out of hibernation, so I don't see the point in standby anymore.
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3-5 seconds???? :Q:Q:Q:Q:Q:Q:Q:Q:Q What do you have like 256MB RAM? 😛

I standby 24/7. I rarely Hibernate; Standby uses so little power if you have a decent battery, why wait?
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It maybe takes 3 seconds in my D610 1.73 with a gig of DDR2. I don't know what laptops you guys are using but the newer dells come out of hibernation pretty quickly. If customs ever clears my x41s with the 1.5 LV, I'll time the hibernation on them as well. It maybe takes 5 seconds on my Acer TM C100 with the 800 mhz P3-m to come out of hibernation and it has 256 megs of PC100 in it.
 
Originally posted by: ND40oz
It maybe takes 3 seconds in my D610 1.73 with a gig of DDR2. I don't know what laptops you guys are using but the newer dells come out of hibernation pretty quickly. If customs ever clears my x41s with the 1.5 LV, I'll time the hibernation on them as well. It maybe takes 5 seconds on my Acer TM C100 with the 800 mhz P3-m to come out of hibernation and it has 256 megs of PC100 in it.
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Are you SURE you mean Hibernation? 😕 3 seconds is ridiculously fast.

In regards to the hibernation vs standby question, let's clarify:

Hibernation takes all of the information stored in RAM, saves it to a file on your hard drive, and shuts the computer completely down. When you resume from hibernate, it reads the information out from the hard drive into RAM. When you get into Windows, it has to reload some stuff (like window contents, etc) into RAM and thus is kind of stutters at first.

Standby shuts down EVERY part of the laptop, except the RAM. It keeps a very small amt of power applied to the RAM (as RAM contents is lost when power is lost), thus all that has to be done when resuming from standby is power on the rest of the hardware and pick up where you left off.

Standby = minor power consumption, uber-fast resume time
Hibernation = zero power consumption, able to remove system battery, slower suspend/resume time, hard-drive speed dependant, more memory means more time to suspend/resume
 
Originally posted by: fbrdphreak
Are you SURE you mean Hibernation? 😕 3 seconds is ridiculously fast.
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Yes, I'm sure I mean hibernation. You press the power button and 3 seconds later I'm prompted to unlock my laptop. I may lose a gig of disk space, but it's worth it to me not to have to worry about accidently leaving it in standby for long periods of time.
 
Depends, I had a laptop bluescreen on me instead of going into standby on lid close, I opened my bag about an hour later and it had been running full throttle for an hour in the bag. Needless to say, it took it about 30 min laying bottom up for it to cool down long enough to boot properly again instead of shutting down do to thermals.

You'll also still drain your battery if you leave it in standby for long periods of time. If you do decide to use standby, I wouldn't use it for longer then an hour or two, after that point you'll start to see it use a chunk of your battery life.
 
By huge chunk do you mean a few %? That's all you love over a few hours. You might lose 10% if you leave it in standby for a day or more.

As long as you MAKE SURE you machine has powered down after putting it into standby, there is no issue.

Be smarter than the computer 😉
 
Originally posted by: fbrdphreak

Be smarter than the computer 😉
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Yeah, but it supposed to do it upon lid close, that's what I was getting at. Sometimes it doesn't work. Which is why I prefer to hibernate.

But none of this really matters to me though, I get close to 6 hours of use time on my D610 with the bay battery. I'll find a place to plug in sometime during that 6 hours. Though it did come in handy for the FF draft that my league started at 5:30 on a day when I had class from from 4:30 to 9:40. Only missed one pick when I was switching classes, to bad it autodrafted Kellen Winslow for me in the 11th round...
 
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