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A comment on Ask HN: Why is the Linux community struggling to implement hibernation?. Parent comment

Re:Ask HN: Why is the Linux community struggling to implemen... by wtallis on Thursday April 08, 2021 @02:13PM (#26741944)
It's basically impossible for hibernating a laptop to take more than about 5-6 minutes unless you deliberately configured it with insanely imbalanced components, ie. more RAM than mainstream laptop hardware platforms support, and the slowest storage you can find.
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Re:Ask HN: Why is the Linux community struggling to implemen... by nitrogen on Thursday April 08, 2021 @02:46PM (#26742279)
Could still be a problem if you are expecting hibernation to save you at 1% battery remaining.
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Re:Ask HN: Why is the Linux community struggling to implemen... by medstrom on Thursday April 08, 2021 @03:43PM (#26742876)
Especially when 1% is displayed as 5% or 10%.
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Re:Ask HN: Why is the Linux community struggling to implemen... by PaulHoule on Thursday April 08, 2021 @03:54PM (#26743005)
The monster laptop consumes more power because it has all of that RAM, the battery is sized to "not cause a crisis on an airplane if it burns up" not to power a machine of that type, particularly after a year of battery aging.

I have an Alienware that runs rings around any Mac and can do ML dev work with NVIDIA if it is on the plug but on battery I count on it to keep running as I move it to another plug and for the battery to maintain sleep mode for 48 hrs or so.

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