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From: wrat@panix.com (the wharf rat)
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Subject: Re: Poll: How much battery drainage in shutdown/hibernation
Date: Thu, 5 May 2011 18:22:21 +0000 (UTC)
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In article <ipuckj$op1$1@dont-email.me>, BillW50 <BillW50@aol.kom> wrote:
>In 
>Sure some devices uses so little power that you probably don't notice 
>any power drain. But some are not so nice. Take my Palm IIIc for 
>example. There is no real power off. As it is either living in standby 

	To maintian the data in memory so you don't need to resync it every
time.  I'd imagine that if you turn off Wake on (LAN PCI USB IR ETC) and
the always on USB option you could reduce hibernation power draw a bunch.