How Long Would it Take

[Kills On Site]

Just a question for thought that I had. How long would it take for the amount of power of putting a laptop in sleep mode equal shutting it down and resarting it? Not really expecting an answer, just any thoughts or ballparks on the question.

[AmIdYfReAk]

i'm not sure how to even compair them to be honest.. but the worst pont for a laptop is during startup the power consumtion is through the roof.

Shutdown is not that bad, but it takes a bit of juice..

No sure about sleep man... Btw, what Triggered this?

[Kills On Site]

Well I had to run to class and I was low on juice, I haven't been charging my laptop as much since I finally got my desktop down here, and I booted it, put it in sleep mode and then unpluged it. I knew that would help save the battery the most, and I was just curious as to how long it would take for sleeping and shutting down and starting to be equal.

[Massive Quasars]

I believe sleep mode sends just enough juice to retain the volatile memory in RAM. Your laptop may be configured to go into hibernation after a short period in sleep mode without an AC source. Hibernation saves the current state of things as you left them, on to HDD, and then turns off the machine.