{"id":58,"date":"2008-07-06T14:50:27","date_gmt":"2008-07-06T12:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bergs.biz\/blog\/?p=58"},"modified":"2008-07-06T23:21:16","modified_gmt":"2008-07-06T21:21:16","slug":"hibernation-on-the-mac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bergs.biz\/blog\/2008\/07\/06\/hibernation-on-the-mac\/","title":{"rendered":"Hibernation on the Mac"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a Windoze user I was used to putting my notebook into hibernation. This has the following advantages over shutting the machine down or putting it into sleep:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Shutting the machine down means a long boot when I need it again, plus I have to open all apps and docs again which I was using when I shut it down.<\/li>\n<li>Sleep mode eats up your battery quickly, because he machine is still running at a reduced power level.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>However, I couldn&#8217;t find a menu item to put my Mac into hibernation, so I googled a bit and came across <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hibernate_(OS_feature)\" target=\"_blank\">this Wikipedia entry<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Altho I agree that the way the Mac does it seems quite nifty (in fact IBM notebooks had this feature aeons ago&#8230;), I still wanted to be able to immediately put my Mac into hibernation. So I googled again and came across <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kaputtendorf.de\/archiv\/2007\/08\/17\/hibernation-tool-for-mac-os\/\" target=\"_blank\">this nifty lil&#8217; Apple script<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The tool works very well, I recommend it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> My buddy Jochen just pointed me to a blog <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.oreilly.com\/digitalmedia\/2008\/06\/smartsleep-makes-safe-sleep-sa.html\" target=\"_blank\">article<\/a> he wrote recently. He discussed a preferences panel that allows you to configure how the Mac sleeps and\/or hibernates. This <em>is<\/em> a nifty tool, but still doesn&#8217;t exactly do\u00a0 what I need. I want to be able to immediately force the Mac into hibernation, and SmartSleep unfortunately cannot do that for me. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a Windoze user I was used to putting my notebook into hibernation. 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