Hybrid sleep in Vista and S0 - S5 explained

posted by  johnb (86)  14 months ago (blogs.technet.com)

Okay it's time for another shameless 'wow - Vista rocks' type blog post. :)  So I have a notebook and a desktop that I use with Vista daily.  I've never really sat down to investigate 'hybrid sleep' or what it is or how it works until this weekend (I admit - I'm lazy, I've *seen* the option - I've just never used it or thought much of it).Briefly, hybrid sleep is just that - a hybrid between S3 (low power state, power still flowing to RAM) and S4 (hibernate, power off state).  For more on what S0, S1, S3, S4 and all those 'sleep state' numbering schemes mean - check out the Intel