“Companies have long known the benefits of making sure their workers get a good night’s sleep–and they would be wise to let their PCs do the same, Microsoft says,” Ina Fried reports for CNET News.com
“With Windows Vista, Microsoft plans to put machines to sleep after an hour of inactivity. While businesses and consumers can change that setting, the software maker said that they would be smart to let their computers nod off,” Fried reports.
Fried reports, “The company has done work in the upcoming Vista update to make sure that the PC can rest more easily. With Windows XP, programs could veto a user’s request for the PC to go to sleep. In some cases, that meant that laptop owners thought they had put a PC to sleep, only to discover a few hours later that the machine had remained on and their notebook’s battery had been drained.”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Bill” for the heads up.]
MacDailyNews Take: There goes Microsoft, innovatin’ again. Quick sleep tip for Mac OS X: Command-Option and then hold the Eject button for about 2 seconds. Sleep tight! More info about sleep and idle modes in Mac OS X here.
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whoo! a “sleep” option! will the wonders ever cease?!
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Wow. i wish my Mac could do that. oh wait….
first THREE. worship me…. and bite me.
MDN thanks for the tip. Ooops now my Mac went to sleep! ZZzzz
And fourth!
I’m such a dick
I bet with MS it never wakes up again!
You gotta feel sad for a company when a “sleep function” feature deserves international reporting.
Now PC’s can dream of being Macs.
TIME FLY´S – you make me lought – but now i will let my Mac sleep a SIESTA
Tempus Fugit?
more like
Tempus Fudgit.
Yes, well I can’t get my QS 2002 800 to wake from sleep. Actually it goes into a coma, forcing a hard restart. I’m buggered if I can find the problem, but I suspect it is some kind of conflict between the SATA card, Belkin Wireless card and OS X 10.4.7 since there were no problems with 10.4.5.
Any tips on trouble shooting would be greatly appreciated.
Any tips on trouble shooting would be greatly appreciated.
Why are you having any trouble shooting it?
That’s the first think I thought of doing
Another fine example of MS innovation. R&D money well spent! I wonder what other 5 year old technology they can come up with on their own?
I had that on my first Mac (which I still use) back in 2001 on OS 9. I’m sure it was around before that! Are they introducing double-clicking too?
It took them about 10 years to develop a sleep function in their OS? Hilarious! Man, those guys are sharp!
“I bet with MS it never wakes up again!”
Oh, it wakes up again, but only after you pay a re-activation fee.
I love this line:
“With Windows Vista, Microsoft plans to put machines to sleep after an hour of inactivity.”
Note that YOU don’t put your computer to sleep, it’s Microsoft that does it for you!
What a frightening thought!
My Windows crate at work needs 50 minutes to start up after a good night sleep.
The rest of the day it isn’t productive either.
Amount of money to develop Vista: Millions
Number of Man hours to develop Vista: Thousands
Number of “journalists” bought to hype up Vista: Hundreds
Releasing features that have been in OSX for over 5 years: Priceless
The best thing with these articles is:
The comparison to Apple. You can’t beat that type of exopsure. It’s not like this from Apple.
Hey, MDN, thanks for the tip. I just put my laptop to sleep by closing the lid, but didn’t know there was a keyboard shortcut for my desktop (I’d always chosen it from the apple menu). Cool!
I don’t know about you, but “Sleep” is one of the least reliable features on my Macs.
I had a G4, and now a G5 iMac that both continually had trouble going to sleep. Probably having to do with USB connectivity.
Don’t have the problem with my Macbook Pro, but all the same, it is really hard to be smug about a feature that (in my experience) sucks.
Out.
The king of the me-toos: Microsoft.
Vista snores.
Big deal. I put my PC to sleep years ago. I told the kids it when to a nerd ranch where it could play with other PCs and breath fresh country air.
MW: ‘good’ as in “Good Riddance”.