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tresean1

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Hey guys, I am new to the forums and to Macs in general. I love my Mac, but notice one nice feature is missing that Windows/PCs have. How do you put the Mac into hybernation mode? I am not referring to sleep when you can just close the lid and the light pulsates. I am referring to like in Windows when you can save your current session to disk and power off the laptop completely (like if I needed to take a long flight or something, or knew I would be using my laptop in a few days to resume work, and didn't want to leave the laptop alseep for that long)---then when you turn it back on, Windows (or in this case, OS X) would resume and pick up exactly where you left off.

Any help? Thanks
 
tresean1 said:
Hey guys, I am new to the forums and to Macs in general. I love my Mac, but notice one nice feature is missing that Windows/PCs have. How do you put the Mac into hybernation mode? I am not referring to sleep when you can just close the lid and the light pulsates. I am referring to like in Windows when you can save your current session to disk and power off the laptop completely (like if I needed to take a long flight or something, or knew I would be using my laptop in a few days to resume work, and didn't want to leave the laptop alseep for that long)---then when you turn it back on, Windows (or in this case, OS X) would resume and pick up exactly where you left off.

Any help? Thanks
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the Air can do it i think because of the SSD, not sure

but the sleep is pretty good, you lose about 1% per hour
 
There are a number of third party utilities that can be used to force your Mac to enter "safe sleep" mode, which is the equivalent of hibernate. I don't use any so I won't make any recommendations.

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iisforiphone said:
but the sleep is pretty good, you lose about 1% per hour
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Yea, I have tried that, and it's so cool and much faster to wake than sleep on a PC...but surely there HAS TO be a way to hybernate the Macs; it's so convenient on my Windows laptop. Maybe it's not called "hybernate", maybe Apple uses a different term/methodology?
 
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