Category: Geeks r Us
When I was getting ready to shut down my hp netbook, I noticed two options in the nemu that comes up asking you what you want the computer to do. One was sleep and the other was hibernate. What are the differences between these two modes? When should I use one over the other? What mode works best with a screen reader? And what does each mode do?
Sleep is like standby. It saves all your open aps and marks your place, it keeps your screen reader and other aps loaded, just cuts power to most components. The ram is still on though, so sleep will very slowly drain the battery. Hybernate is really turning everything off, but storing all your marks and aps on the harddrive. Power is cut to everything. So, when you turn it back on, it doesn't reboot, but does have to power up, check the drive for your settings, and put them in ram. Hybernate never works well for screen readers. From sleep, the machine just turns your monitor and periferals back on. Since everything is still in ram, it is very fast, and your screen reader will come up fine.
Agreed. Most laptops are set to automaticly sleep after a specific time depending on if you are on battery or power.
If you are all the time using your machine, sleep would work best. Better if plugged in to a power source.
Windows 10 seems to have done away with hibernate.