Why oh why must so many aspects of Vista be so painful?
I have a 3 year old dell that i can close the lid on while on batteries and know that it would safely sleep first, and then wake up in an hour and hiberante fully to make sure there is power again in the morning when I open the lid. Yep it’s running XP.
Compare with my new Toshiba m700 running Vista and try the same thing, and just pray that your machine actually stays asleep. What normally ends up happening is that you reach into your bag when you get home some two hours later and the damn thing is awake and burning up cooking everything else in there and has about 2% power left.
I found this feature to be very useful. As soon as I get home I can cook an egg on it.
Yeah, I personally couldn’t decide between snags or a steak. Perhaps I should re-title this article as “Vista + Hibernation = Dinner” ?