Shall we hide the GUI for Hibernate in Natty?

[Chow Loong Jin]

On Wednesday 23,February,2011 12:26 AM, Phillip Susi wrote:
> On 2/22/2011 10:44 AM, Chow Loong Jin wrote:
>> My previously mentioned point still stands though. Many people close the lid of
>> the laptop, stick it into a bag, and start walking. Considering the I/O
>> intensive nature of the hibernation process, that practice can damage the hard
>> disk pretty much.
> 
> Laptop hard disks are generally built to withstand this.  Whenever my
> wife moves her macbook around too much I can hear the distinctive click
> of the emergency head unload.  This also is of course, not an issue when
> the default lid action is to suspend rather than hibernate.

My first laptop hard disk burnt out after a year, and a month or so (warranty
period + one month, what nice timing). The emergency head unloading feature
isn't invulnerable, you know. Ever since then, I've taken care to avoid moving
the laptop when hibernating.

>> The gauge isn't broken. Well, not completely, anyway. The only issue is that it
>> jumps from 5% directly to 0% without passing 4%-1%. But on the other hand, while
>> there's enough power to last for half a day without running out of battery,
>> there isn't always enough power to finish hibernation before it keels over and
>> dies (starting from 0%).
> 
> It sounds like it is estimating 5% remaining capacity, then realizes
> that, based on the terminal voltage, the battery is actually dead.
> Hence, it needs a good calibration cycle.

If "a good calibration cycle" is equivalent to letting the battery completely
burn out, then yes, I've done that.

> [...]


-- 
Kind regards,
Loong Jin

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