jalal said:
Dear all,
which is better sleep or hibernate .. I have my hp laptop and I always turn
the led down so its going sleep. I do that all the time .
what is better thing, sleep or hibernate
It depends. "Sleep" turns off the monitor and the disks, but keeps
power flowing to RAM (and BIOS, I suppose), so that the contents of
RAM are kept intact. So you use some power while the machine is
asleep. If you're using battery power, that's something you want to
think about. Since system status is remembered in RAM, recovery from
sleep is very quick.
the contents of system RAM and video RAM to a disk
file and shuts the computer down completely. No power is used while
the machine is hibernating, so you won't run down your laptop's
battery while doing nothing. Since the machine has to read the
hibernate file the next time it boots up, it takes longer to recover
from hibernation than from sleep.