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Paul Sutton wrote: > Funny you should bring this up, I have just been looking at the MS > website, they boast about innovative features designed to reduce global > warming, Don't electrical items on stand by use more electricity than > they would if switched off > > Paul > Yes, but hibernate mode actually saves the contents of memory to the hard disk (on Linux, to the swap partition if you have enough room, and on Windows to a file on the C: drive) and then the machine completely powers off. I believe that in some cases, a PC going into standby mode can still save quite a lot of power by turning a whole load of components off (well, this is assuming there is the support there to do it!). Rob -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html