RE: Suspend modes

[akilpinen@finabo.abo.fi (Antti Kilpinen)]

>> Suspend does use a fair amount of battery power. Expecting it to last 30 
>> hours is unrealistic. If you suspend then you should remember to plug in
>> at night.
>
>	I've put my machine in suspend for about 24 hours (I have a total
>of 12MB RAM) and lost no more than 15 to 20% of battery juice.  Seems to me
>that conceivably, you could but it in suspend for 3 or 4 days and still
>have some juice (assuming it was fully charged to begin with--though it
>would definitely be due for a recharge!).
>
>	Maybe your machine sucking up lots of power like his?
> 
>> I personally find that hibernation (with 20 megs) takes about as long as
>> a shut-down reboot, so I find it pretty painful and don't feel like wasting
>> 20 megs of disk space on the feature.
>

I use a similar configurationd and the figures 15%/24h seem to apply for me too.
Antti Kilpinen, Ph.D (Chem.Eng.)
Institute for Advanced Management Systems Research
Abo Akademi University
DataCity
FIN-20520 Turku