From: Randall Parker 

Gregg N wrote:
> Is there a reason you prefer hibernate over standby?

Usually when I turn my machine on I'm in no rush to sit down at it. I come home from
work, turn it on, and then my dog barks at me demanding a walk. So I walk the dog
while it comes out of hibernation.

I'm trying to save the time of starting apps, opening projects, scrolling to where I
last was, and opening various web pages.

The web page bit is a biggie. I do a lot of web searches to come up with content for
my web logs (e.g. http://www.futurepundit.com) and have pages in my browser for a day
or two or three. I do not want to lose that stuff. But I do not need fast starts.

> Standby is
> generally much quicker both entering and leaving it. With hibernate, you
> must go through a normal BIOS boot cycle, and when Windows boots it
> loads the saved image from the hibernate file. With standby, memory and
> CPU are kept in a standby power state, so there is no boot cycle.
> Hibernate is really more for laptops than desktops.
>
> Gregg

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