Shoutbox

Well unless you like to leave your laptop in hibernation for YEARS then it will be ok. When it is in standby it is perfectly safe.

Even then it will be fine- try it! If your computer is suspended to ram and it runs low on battery, it will actually shut itself down properly [at least, most operating systems do- or they suspend to disk].

And hibernate is even better imho. Becuase you don't consume any battery life

when you hibernate your computer DOES shut down. it makes an exact copy of the system's state and restores it when the computer is turned back on. in fact, you could unplug a desktop computer that's been hibernated, leave it unplugged for monthes, go on vacation, plug it back in across the world and it'd still restore your state. sleep, however, leaves the computer on -- but it cuts power to the processor and extension cards.

If this sort of stuff interests you, you should take a look at Coyotos, which we're hoping to get the Hurd running on soon. It's pretty much persistent, which means you can pull the plug on your machine, plug it back in, and it would be like nothing happened, save for stateful things like network connections have to be restarted.

There are much cooler things about it than that, but I still think that's completely kick ass.

welll thanks all I have tried putting my laptop to sleep and it is working pretty smothly, i guess i will give it a try