Re: Closing laptop without suspending
2008/6/25 Jochen Antesberger <jochen-2008-3rdquarter@ozark.de>:
> The disk will spin down very quickly. If it took five seconds I'd be
> surprised. Also carrying around a laptop while it is running won't be a
> problem at all. The drives can take it. Just don't drop it or bang it onto
> the table. I once saw a laptop fly literally across the room and hit a
> wall. This one was turned off luckily, and it was still booting up
> afterwards.
>
Thanks for that insight, Jochen.
In any case, the issue is not whether or not to leave it running while
I'm walking across the library. The issue is doing it with the lid up
or down. What can I do to instruct the computer not to suspend in
response to ACPI events for X seconds?
Dotan Cohen
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