The reliability of sleep/wake was the original killer app for me on a Mac laptop. I used to carry my Dell around from meeting to meeting flat with the lid half-open, just so that I could get started right away when I sat down.
I borrowed a Macbook and being able to snap the lid shut, carry it normally, then open it and just start typing was so freeing. It sounds like a small thing, but a small thing repeated many times throughout many days adds up.
My wife has a work-issued Dell and it is amazing how loud the fans get while it is sitting, unattended, with the lid closed. We notice it not infrequently… why did the TV get quieter? Oh, actually the background noise got louder.
It’s amazing that “sleep” is still an issue for Microsoft Windows computers today.
As a Linux user I'm shocked stuff has been like this. My first laptop was a Fujtisu p1120 in 2004 & every laptop I've had has slept fine. Various Dell, Msi, Apple, Samsung laptops, all running Linux just fine, all sleeping ok.
Worst situation I had was the last personal laptop, a Haswell-era Dell. The wifi would only come back on every-other sleep, so I'd put it to sleep, wake it, and put it to sleep again, which took all of like 3 seconds. For a bit I was carrying around a swank Alfa USB-WiFi adapter as a workaround, which had the benefit of also providing superb wifi performance, but I figured out the every-other-sleep pattern after a bunch of months & that was that. All in all such a minor caveat, such a small nit amid so much working great across such a long span of time & systems.
I once accidentally hibernated a machine & was shocked it just worked in Linux. It means shutdown & turn on are closer to 10s, but my god, zero battery drain is divine. The thought of a laptop that can't stay off for a month is absurd. My personal laptop has 3/4 a year of "uptime" on it. It should be like this.
There is a lot of security theatre software on Windows. I have frequently seen malware scanner push CPU to max when devices were idling. So depending on the setup of the device...
I borrowed a Macbook and being able to snap the lid shut, carry it normally, then open it and just start typing was so freeing. It sounds like a small thing, but a small thing repeated many times throughout many days adds up.
My wife has a work-issued Dell and it is amazing how loud the fans get while it is sitting, unattended, with the lid closed. We notice it not infrequently… why did the TV get quieter? Oh, actually the background noise got louder.
It’s amazing that “sleep” is still an issue for Microsoft Windows computers today.