Hmm, obsolete laptop already did this [LWN.net]

Hmm, obsolete laptop already did this

Posted Jun 7, 2006 11:13 UTC (Wed) by ballombe (subscriber, #9523)
In reply to: Hmm, modern distros already do this by Burgundavia
Parent article: How to suspend and hibernate a laptop under Linux (Linux.com)

Or you could buy a old laptop with APM suspend-to-disk support,
and you would not even have to think about drivers, just press
the button. Work flawlessly for me since 1998.

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Hmm, obsolete laptop already did this

Posted Jun 8, 2006 18:54 UTC (Thu) by tjw.org (guest, #20716) [Link]

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Or you could buy a old laptop with APM suspend-to-disk support,
and you would not even have to think about drivers, just press
the button. Work flawlessly for me since 1998.
</blockquote>

No doubt. My good old Sony 505TR suspends and wakes in a fraction of the time of any ACPI machine I've ever seen. Close the lid, it beeps and sleeps, open the lid and press space bar it beeps and is awake almost instantly, never a problem. I just wish I could have that same exact laptop with a 2.0Ghz cpu in it.