Re: [tlug] more Mac fun

[Niels Kobschätzki <n.kobschaetzki@example.com>]

On Apr 15, 2007, at 1:03 PM, Josh Glover wrote:

> On 14/04/07, Scott Robbins <scottro@example.com> wrote:
>
> > Apple recommends doing that (completely discharging the battery)  
> > about
> > once a month.
>
> How do you do that? Do you boot it up into the BIOS or something and
> let it just drain? I have a feeling that Mac OS would hate getting
> shut down at the login prompt or something (filesystem
> inconsistencies, etc.).

That's the manual for iBook & Powerbook:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=86284

They don't seem to worry about filesystem inconsistencies.
Newer iBook & Powerbook models (and of course every intel-based  
laptop) uses in addition "safe sleep" which is afaik a combination of  
suspend-to-ram and suspend-to-disk. When safe sleep is activated Mac  
OS X will write the RAM to disc, if there wasn't a power down it'll  
wake up from RAM, if there was one it'll wake up from disc.

Niels