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Deep Sleep

11 Aug 2010
Widget hibernates some Macs.
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Deep Sleep... The default behavior of Mac OS X is to put sleeping computers in 'hardware suspend' mode, during which the RAM is still powered on. This widget allows the computer to enter 'software suspend' mode. Software suspend is a feature similar to what windows call 'hibernation': the computer consumes no power while sleeping, however the wake up process takes more time to complete.

Hibernation is made possible by the Mac OS X Tiger 10.4.3 update. This operating system version is required.

Only the computers with 'safe sleep' feature are officially supported. For now, the only computers with this feature are the Powerbook
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What's New in Deep Sleep

Version 1.2:
  • Changed the authentication method from sudo to Applescript. This should fix the authentication issues under Mac OS X 10.6. Thanks to Oliver Kusche for finding this solution.

Requirements for Deep Sleep

Mac OS X 10.4.3 or later
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Deep Sleep User Discussion

4.4 5
Ratings
Overall
(5)
Current Version (1.x)
(4)
Details
Downloads 10,346
Version Downloads 3,087
Type Utilities / AppleScript
License Free
Date 11 Aug 2010
Platform OS X / PPC 32 / Intel 32
Price Free
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