Brandon Werner

No hardware upgrade needed! I found Matt Jonhson’s post, via Daring Fireball, that showed you how to enable Apple’s new Safe Sleep mode (known in the Windows world as suspend to disk or hibernate) that Apple has locked to operate ONLY on the latest Powerbooks. Well, if you have any Powerbook or iBook made from 2003 on, and you have OSX 10.4.3, then you can also enable this! I did this on my Powerbook 1.25 GHz Aluminum just to test it and it seems to work great!

Read the article and download the scripts here.

From the Apple KnowledgeBase article:

“The progress bar indicates that the PowerBook is waking from Safe Sleep. Safe Sleep ensures that data stored in main memory will not be lost should the system shut down due to a loss of power during sleep mode. Prior to your system entering sleep, Safe Sleep automatically saves the contents of main memory (such as desktop settings, open applications, and other work in progress) to the hard drive. In the event the battery becomes completely depleted while the system is asleep, the computer will shut down. But when a power adapter is connected or a freshly charged battery is installed, the PowerBook can be restarted and it will automatically return to the desktop state that existed prior to entering sleep. This means that applications and files will remain exactly as they were prior to the system being put to sleep, making it easy for you to continue on with your work.”