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aysentur1226ywhen I had a new keyboard I wasn't used to the placement of the sleep button and I put my PC to sleep on a regular basis.
playing a game? whoops, PC is sleeping now. can't wake up
casually chatting? whoops, sleep button.
it was... annoying to say the least. -
Cyberman1916yThe only keyboard that had a sleep button was on my Dell Inspiron from 2008.
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wonwon02006ymaybe the point of this is exactly to make you power your computer off.
peak energy efficiency. -
To my understanding sleep is an OS feature that prepends the whole memory to the pagefile, sets a flag and then powers off. Anything below OS level probably relies on a very specific partition table or at least a sufficiently sized swap partition to function correctly.
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Why can't they get power saving right? Every keyboard I have to pull out the sleep button. Once you press it that's it. PC is dead. Put to sleep.
Do I have to venture into the ancient forest and find a prince to wake it up?
Same thing with monitors these days acting all weird.
Can we put a wake up button on these things? They're backwards. At least have a screen explaining its waking up. The slightest indication.
If power saving is going to be such a hassle I'm going to turn it off.
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