[ltp] [OT] thinkpad resistant for inline skating?

[Eben King]

On Wed, 6 Jul 2005, Jan Girlich wrote:

> Carlos Maldonado schrieb:
> 
> > Jan Girlich wrote:
> > 
> >> Hi,
> >> I take my R51 around like everywhere just in a small cover in my 
> >> backpack. And it has some rough times, so I think this is no problem 
> >> at all. Well, just shut it down and don't leave it in suspend-to-ram.
> > 
> > 
> > does this mean that even so it is suspended-to-ram the HD is still 
> > working? I thought the only device working under these conditions were 
> > the RAM memory
> 
> Well, I thought I read a warning from IBM like in their manuals that a 
> TP in suspend-to-ram may wake up while carried around and thus will be 
> vulnerable to damage.
> But I can't find that statemant anymore.
> So don't worry.

That's true under Windows at least.  If a TP is suspended-to-RAM then
depending on the settings in the "Power" control panel it may wake up after
a while and suspend itself to disk without your intervention.

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