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20040122 Thursday January 22, 2004

Can your laptop do this? Another reason why PowerBooks rule: I starting running "ant test-all" right before I left for the office this morning. I closed the lid as it was starting Tomcat to run Cactus tests. When I got to the office, I opened the lid, and Tomcat continued starting and all the tests finished running. Can your laptop do that? Posted in Mac OS X at Jan 22 2004, 09:46:17 AM MST 6 Comments

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Yeah, Windows XP has that hibernating thingie. Although my Vaio is not as sexy, it works well. :)

Posted by Carlos Villela on January 22, 2004 at 11:06 AM MST #

Carlos, I know about hibernating - but will the above scenario work on XP? If it does - that's awesome. The best part about the a PowerBook's <em>hibernate feature</em> is that it takes about a second to sleep and another to wake up. Last time I checked, XP was kinda slow to hibernate.

Posted by Matt Raible on January 22, 2004 at 11:12 AM MST #

Yeah, my old toshiba libretto used to do that regularly as a function of hardware. So while rebuilding kernels on it it would do that 4 or 5 times... because it would overheat under the strain. But the first time I saw it I had the same feeling of awe.

Posted by drowsy on January 22, 2004 at 11:18 AM MST #

XP has both hibernate and standby. Hibernate is power-safe (it swaps everything to disk?) - you can take out the battery and replace and restart. Standby uses minimal power and your laptop can be left like this for days (over a long weekend at least for a modern Dell) - but if power is lost it is the same as rebooting. Standby is quick, hibernate is slow.

Posted by Daniel Cox on January 22, 2004 at 01:02 PM MST #

Mac rules. This and other features like having a beautiful interface running on a rock-solid Unix OS make this the perfect development platform. I'm a bit concerned about how often Apple will release JDK upgrades - and what about version 1.5?

Posted by Deepak Parbhoo on January 27, 2004 at 05:59 AM MST #

My laptop would have finished its job by the time I arrive at the office. Am I missing something here?

Posted by Tom Klaasen on January 28, 2004 at 06:25 AM MST #

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