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Vista an Uneasy Sleeper

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the just-like-most-3-year-olds dept.

Emmy King writes "
One thing we just can't wrap our mind about is the terrible, broken, and completely pitiful support for waking Vista up from a Deep Sleep or hibernation.
Anytime you attempt to wake Vista up from Hibernation or "Deep Sleep" (S3-induced sleep mode), it dies. It's either a BSOD, or a driver error, or a broken network, no DWM, lack of sound... the list goes on, and on. So much for an operating system to "power" the future! (No pun intended!) That's with properly-signed drivers and no buggy software on multiple PCs..."

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  1. Slashdot Ramps Up the Vista FUD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    No surprise to see that around the time Vista releases, slashdot will turn up the FUD campaign as hard as they can.

    When Microsoft badmouths Linux, it's evil, evil FUD from the Borg, but when slashdot does it, it's simply informing their Linux using readers of the deficiencies of Vista.

    And they'll link to blogs or any other source of unknown reputation to smear Vista as best as they could. Sad.

    1. Re:Slashdot Ramps Up the Vista FUD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

      Vista will be the best thing ever for third world countries. Do you realise how much PCs will become obsolete the moment it hits the shelves? A large percentage of those PC will be donated to aid organisations, who will install Ubuntu and ship them to Africa.

      Yeah, like scores of Windows PCs is what Africa needs the most to feed the poor and stop the war...

  2. Yeah yeah, M$ sucks by tsa · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    We all know M$ software sucks. So let me tell you about my MacBook Pro, the one God Steve made. If more than one person have (been) logged on, I can never get it to sleep by just closing the lid. It either doesn't go to sleep, or it wakes up after a few minutes. That's really bad, because then it gets hot and when you want to use it again, the battery is dead. I also have XP on that machine, and I have the impression that sleep mode in Windows works even better than in OSX.

    My point is: nothing is perfect. Get over it.

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    -- Cheers!

  3. Re:OK, we get it. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Agreed. Is there a more unbiased site, similar in format to slashdot?

  4. Too funny by tinymarc · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Well at least they don't fail to entertain.Muahahahaha :-))

  5. Re:S3 is not hibernate/deep sleep. by gregorio · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    Seriously, KDE can get it right, Mac OS X can get it right. What's so wrong with: Sleep, Restart, Shutdown (, Logout)
    The only thing wrong here is the fact that you bash Windows without never using it, meaning that you don't know SHIT about it. Even Windows 2000 haves these options, and they're named almost the same.
  6. Poor Windows and Poor Linux by sogoodsofarsowhat · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    My MacBook Pro and Mac Book (and ibook before that) all sleep and hybernate 100% of the time just fine. Sorry to hear your stuff isnt perfect. ROFL at your punny machines

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    . I love the sound of burning women and screaming rubber....
  7. Re:How many times do you test before calling it tr by Loco+Moped · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I just opened my laptop and turned it on, and it resumed from a hibernate just fine (running Vista Business release version).

    One success does not undo a lifetime of failure.

  8. Re:"He's resting." by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    because you're a fucking tool.

  9. Re:S3 is not hibernate/deep sleep. by gregorio · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    But he's criticising Windows Vista, not Windows 2000. Have you seen Vista's shutdown menu? Have you read the article on Slashdot about how much time and effort went into making it?
    He wasn't quoting Windows 2000 and XP for "doing it right" because of...? I know, because he is a zealot who doesn't know SHIT about what he is criticising.
  10. Dude, just buy a fucking Mac by melted · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Sleep mode in current Apple laptops combines hibernate and sleep. If computer remains powered (i.e. battery doesn't go out or doesn't get removed), the wake up is instantaneous. It is literally ready to go at the tap of a key. If, however, there's a power loss, the wake up will take a bit longer because wake up will be from hibernate mode. Just to verify this, right after I finished typing the previous sentence I closed the lid of my laptop (C2D MBP), detached the power cord and removed the battery and waited 30 seconds. I have then put the battery back in and started the laptop. It woke up from hibernate and I continued typing. A nice touch - on wake up it shows you a slightly blurred version of the desktop the way it was when computer went to sleep.

    So you get the speed of the "regular" sleep with reliability of hibernate. I say - give your money to the competent, vote with your dollar.