Windows Hibernate...

[PkennethV]

Macs use power during sleep because it has to power the RAM, but why does a Windows computer still use (more) power when it hibernates? How does it work under boot camp?

 

[PkennethV]

anyone?

 

[Bill Gates]

It shouldn't use power during hibernation. Hibernation writes the RAM to the disk, and then turns off power completely AFAIK. When the session is resumed, the data is copied back into RAM.

 

[PkennethV]

Ah. I cofused hibernation with Standby. I assume then, that standby works similarly to sleep?

 

[Bill Gates]

Ah. I cofused hibernation with Standby. I assume then, that standby works similarly to sleep?

Standby on a windows computer puts the computer into sleep mode, except it does not write the contents of the RAM to the disk. A small amount of electricity is used to power the RAM. This is how things worked in Windows XP at least.