[jhonizzle]

well yesterday, i was palying around with my MBP and i descovered two things. probably always been on the mac but never knew.

1.i held down the play button on my remote and the screen displays the whited out remote with z's over top and it goes to sleep. i thought that was pretty nifty

2. i was trying to shut down my MBP in a hurry, but i had just it the Sleep option in the shutdown pannel, then i just held down the power button to shut it down. i came back after dinner i open the lid to my MBP and press the power button and an emptly grey screen comes up. then 5-6 bars start looking like they're loading something, then it loads right back into OSX and Photoshop exactly where i was it was. the computer was completely shut off.

the way i did that was put it too sleep with the lid open made sure it was asleep. then held down the power button as if to force a shut down. opened it back up later and pressed the power button to start up the computer but had it wake up as if it were asleep. THIS WAS SOOO AMAZING!!!! now i'm having a hard time doing it again.... i've been able to do it a couple of times after but now it's not working....weird

edit- i have had no problems i got it down to a science, so now it works every time! SWEEEET

[ajprice]

As far as i know they are both intel things.

1. The sleep with the remote may have been doable on the iMac G5 iSight model which had the same remote, not sure of that though.

2. The instant wake up is done by an option (can't think what its called) on intels to write the contents of the RAM to the hard drive before it goes to sleep or shuts down, so when you restart/wake up the Mac, it reads the last system state from the drive back to the RAM and carries on from where you were.

[phantomo]

2. Hibernation?

[tooki]

2. is called "Safe Sleep" and it's not limited to the Intel Macs. The last generation of PowerBook supported it, too, and it can be enabled via the command line on earlier models.

tooki