[The Godfather]

Is anyone trying anything in this field? I think it would be a bit nicer than rebooting everytime I want to compile something, then reboot again to feel at home.

[harrisjamieh]

I think I understood you correctly;

I just did a test, whereby I booted into windows, then hibernated it. I then turned the machine back on, and left it, and it booted into OS X. Fine.

Then I restarted again, preparing to boot into Windows as I normally would. The de-hibernation status thingy came up, and in next to no time I was back into Windows.

I had never thought of this before, and it certianly saves a lot of time when booting/rebooting. Its a shame theres no way to 'tell' OS X to hibernate - I know theres the safe sleep feature, but that solution wouldn't work, as it only functions when power is lost during sleep.

[The Godfather]

Yes, you understood correctly

I'd really like to dual boot this way, so that I don't have to close all my documents every time.

This blogger explains how Safe Sleep (aka Hibernate) is enabled in old Macs
http://www.andrewescobar.com/archive...leep-your-mac/

This blogger talks about how this would be nice too.
http://saturn49.blogspot.com/2005/08...gold-mine.html

[The Godfather]

Try this!

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/28440