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My 10 year old Thinkpad with S3 wakes up in the time it takes to open the lid, with almost as much battery as it had when I put it to sleep days ago.

My shiny new work laptop without S3 wakes up in the same time, and then says "Battery critically low, shutting down."

This is not a convenience, it's insubordination. I told it to sleep, and it didn't.

But you know what's really insane? When the new work laptop is just sitting there with the screen locked and I walk up and hit a key, it takes longer to just display the password box than the 10 year old Thinkpad takes to wake up from S3 and display the password box. (Ok, it's an unfair comparison, Windows vs Linux, but still...)