Charlie Wood is blogging about his experiences his new Tablet PC. Today’s post begins:
One of the things I’m noticing about my Tablet PC use is that I tend to use it in short bursts. For instance, when I arrived at the airport yesterday I needed to look up my flight number to get my boarding pass. (Why? Only Southwest knows.) So I woke my tablet from hibernation, opened the PDF with my itinerary on it, got the flight number, then put the machine back to sleep. I did this same wake-look-sleep routine a dozen times yesterday. It’s a lot like how I use my PDA.
I agree. Instant on would be a killer feature in the Tablet. On my Toshiba M200 I’ve adjusted the power settings so that when I close the lid the system hibernates. This also means that when I open the case or slide the power switch that the Tablet is up and running in about 15 seconds. The Windows desktop appears in about 10 seconds or so. This is great, but I’d really like my Tablet to be even more like paper and be usable right away.
Loren: Here’s a suggestion (taken from Michael Linenberger’s most Excellent Sieze the Work Day) to improve the Instant On time. This is how my Toshiba M205 is configured:
Close lid: Sleep
Power Switch: Sleep
On Battery: After 15 minutes in Sleep, Hibernate
Waking from Sleep is nearly instantaneous. The Tablet switches to the better battery saving power of Hibernation if I leave it untouched for 15 minutes. It’s been working rally well for me.
The onlyhang-up is the time it takes to reacquire a WiFi connection but that’s a generic XP issue.
I presume sleep = standby?
I can’t find the final On Battery option 😐 Did you use the Toshiba or Windows XP Power Options
I presume sleep = standby?
I can’t find the final On Battery option 😐 Did you use the Toshiba or Windows XP Power Options
Hi Marc, I used to put my notebook to sleep until I saw a friend’s system fry in his car because of the desert heat. Since then I’ve switched to using hibernate because it turns the computer completely off. I also, *always* check when closing the lid that the computer really did hibernate. Sometimes (rarely) the shutdown process gets hung by an application. So I guess I’m a bit too cautious at this stage to use the sleep-to-hibernate feature. Or I need to move to a cooler climate 🙂
Paul, go to Control Panel, Performance and Maintenance, Power Options, and click on the Advanced tab in the “Power Options Properties” dialog. You can configure the system lid and power button here to go to sleep (standby) or hibernate.