Sony Vaio

[Focus2.0Zetec]

Hi

What are the implications of putting laptop into Standby mode instead of shutting down on a regular basis? Just fed up of shutting laptop down only to need it 30 mins later.

Chris

[littlegreenfairy]

Well I've been doing this for about a year now and it doesn't seem to do any damage. I just can't be assed with turning it on and off.

[thepassenger]

No major implications other than the fact it will still use some battery whilst in 'sleep' or standby. If you use a lot of network shares or play films/music in Winamp or Media Player they'll forgot where they were and/or close (Winamp 5.23 is a swine for that).

You can also put a laptop/desktop in to Hibernation; it dumps the current contents of memory and it's state (i.e. programs & files open) to disk and then powers off; turn it on and Windows will reappear as you left it 9 times outta 10. Quicker than booting from cold.

To sum up If your just leaving the laptop pluged in to the mains then Standby is a-ok. If your going to cart it off somewhere then Hibernate is the way forward. My laptop hibernates when I press the power button or standby's when I close the lid (Control Panel > Power to tinker with how it interprets stuff).