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Put your laptop to sleep with SmartSleep

You know the drill. Close your laptop's lid or select "Sleep" from the Apple Menu and it does just that - it goes into low-power mode, or "sleep."

That's just not good enough. Check out SmartSleep, which puts your MacBook or MacBook Pro into either Sleep Mode or Hibernate Mode, depending on several factors.

For example, if your battery is at 20%, SmartSleep puts your Mac to sleep and hibernate. If it's down to 5%, it goes right to hibernate mode, preserving items in memory. Otherwise, it just sleeps as it typically does.

Finally, you can select any of these settings as the default for your machine. SmartSleep is free.

[Via Download Squad]

You know the drill. Close your laptop's lid or select "Sleep" from the Apple Menu and it does just that - it goes into low-power mode, or...
 

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5cents

Deepsleep widget'it

February 28 2008 at 10:12 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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indiekiduk

To sleep just your display, e.g. on the iMac use:
http://www.imalc.com/Site/SleepDisplay.html

February 28 2008 at 11:41 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Ed

Somewhat off topic, but does anyone know of a menu bar applet thing to quickly disable sleep and prevent the screen dimming itself? It's very annoying when watching internet videos...

February 28 2008 at 7:43 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Joshua Ochs

"Otherwise, it just sleeps as it typically does."

Um, the default is to *always* hibernate on MacBook/MacBook Pro's - something I find very annoying. If this can put me into normal sleep above 20% battery, and hibernate below 20%, then I will be a very happy camper.

February 28 2008 at 7:03 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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