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by glhaynes 6049 days ago
I treat my laptop like I treat my phone -- always on but it spends most of its time asleep. Only reboot in case of OS upgrade or system failure. I don't really get why people don't do it this way... just close the lid.
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Well it presupposes you have an environment where it actually works consistently.

I cannot remember the exact number & types of machines I've used or had provided to me at customer premises over the last few years, but I'm pretty sure its > 10. Its only ever been my MBP that wakes up consistently with everything still intact. <= 10% is a pretty poor success rate...

I only had that kind of experience with my macbook, never on linux unfortunatly.
I had hangup-on-resume experience on powerbook too. Not very often, about once a month. It was quite annoying.