About a new hi-res 15" PowerBook

Rolphus: When plugged into AC power, I have my display set to sleep at 30 minutes, and the machine set to sleep in an hour. For that entire half hour the display is asleep, the latch light will glow, solid. I don't think that's a short-term "pre-sleep warning" light. It truly seems as though it's an indicator that the display is asleep, but the machine is still awake and cooking.

The delay in the latch light going on is the "safe sleep" mode kicking in - it takes a few seconds to pull the active contents of RAM onto the disk, and if you're bored enough to read the manual, it explains that you're not supposed to move the powerbook until it starts going into the usual "gently pulsating" thing.

#5 and #6 I also noticed the 15"PB getting rather warm, when charging or on Better performance power settings. Go and have a look at http://www.chillpak.com/ I ordered a couple, and hoping this will help when its sitting on my lap PS: I'm not affiliated with them - or the xfiles ;-P

I'm kinda slightly annoyed as I got a brand new 15" G4 PB as well.. 4 weeks before the higher res/better battery/brighter screen was announced.... The good thing.. Its a lease laptop, so I'll be trading it in for a new iNTEL one come 2006 :)

i did a little review/comparison between the new 15" and older rev B version here.. http://forums.appletalk.com.au/index.php?showtopic=14307 but it doens't (and wasn't meant to) go to the same level of detail as Gruber's review. XBench results were interesting....!?

#5 - powerbooks running hot has been an issue for a long time. my 15" 1.5ghz can get up to around 142 degrees when doing something intense (or just running WMP). the 12" is supposed to get even hotter. its because there is so much power in such a small form factor. thats the price you pay for luxury ;-). any apple store employee (with a brain) will tell you this as well, so its not just some conspiracy theory. so dont worry, its fine. get a heat pad for it if it bothers you too much. or else use it on a hard surface, something that releases heat nicely.

i also made the switch from 12" to 15". do you find that your powerbook runs hot? mine is often really hot. i'm not sure what's up.

#2: No, it doesn't It's a great feature, I was gobsmacked when I first noticed it :)

It doesn't happen on my 2004 powerbook but it would be nice if it would. After all im guessing its a software thing? A few times ive hit the power button thinking it was off when the display was asleep. Does it also glow when you decrease the brightness of the display to zilch using the F1 and F2 buttons?

my 2.5 month old 12in pb shuts the screen off before sleep.