At least the iBook would come out of sleep when you opened the lid, I don't think Windows laptops could manage that until 2007.
You still have to turn off USB power management on a windows machine to avoid serious problems just as you have to turn off Bluetooth power management if you don't want to be connecting and reconnecting your headphones several times a day.
> At least the iBook would come out of sleep when you opened the lid, I don't think Windows laptops could manage that until 2007.
I think that was very hardware-dependent. I don't recall what hardware I had, but it had a > 90% success rate of resuming from suspend and/or hibernation under Windows XP.
Apple's advantage there being pretty obvious: they control the entire range of hardware
> You still have to turn off USB power management on a windows machine to avoid serious problems just as you have to turn off Bluetooth power management if you don't want to be connecting and reconnecting your headphones several times a day.
The irony being that I still have to turn wifi and bluetooth off and on on my macbook air regularly today, as airplay stops working every ~10-20 transfers / every other week.
That was a pretty average price for "value" laptops at the time, much like the pricing of the Neo today.
At least the iBook would come out of sleep when you opened the lid, I don't think Windows laptops could manage that until 2007.
You still have to turn off USB power management on a windows machine to avoid serious problems just as you have to turn off Bluetooth power management if you don't want to be connecting and reconnecting your headphones several times a day.
> At least the iBook would come out of sleep when you opened the lid, I don't think Windows laptops could manage that until 2007.
I think that was very hardware-dependent. I don't recall what hardware I had, but it had a > 90% success rate of resuming from suspend and/or hibernation under Windows XP.
Apple's advantage there being pretty obvious: they control the entire range of hardware
> You still have to turn off USB power management on a windows machine to avoid serious problems just as you have to turn off Bluetooth power management if you don't want to be connecting and reconnecting your headphones several times a day.
The irony being that I still have to turn wifi and bluetooth off and on on my macbook air regularly today, as airplay stops working every ~10-20 transfers / every other week.