So, in the grand scheme of things, I would classify the ability of a laptop to effectively enter and exit sleep/standby as one of the most important features of the device.  It severely hinders the portability of laptop if you have to wait 7 minutes for it to boot up every time you’d like to use it, or if your battery is being drained constantly because your device is always on.

Having said that, it utterly fails my comprehension why anyone would buy a Windows-based laptop, when my experience with Windows standby has a ~30% failure rate.  In fact, I’ve come to the point with my work computer where, if I actually choose to attempt standby, I purposely stop and save any critical work.  This is ridiculous.

My iBook is about as effective as birth control when it comes to sleep/wake performance.  I mean, it even doesn’t fail when you do the put-to-sleep-oh-shit-didn’t-mean-to-wake-up-right-after thing, which you better not even think of doing with a Windows machine (Gotta wait at least 3 minutes before attempting a wake).

And I realize what the stock answer for this type of behavior is: “Windows doesn’t get to handpick its hardware like Macs do.”  Well, that may be the case, but for such a mission critical feature, you have to do better than that.

Figure it out.

Maybe you should spend less time creating an animated dog to go along with your shitty file search feature and more time figuring out why your standby sucks.

Tags: microsoft, standby, Windows

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