Power Management; Sleep Mode; Hibernate Mode - Medion E1210 Manual

Power Management

Your netbook offers automatic and modifiable power saving functions that you can
use to maximize battery life and reduce overall operating costs. The power saving
modes are known as sleep mode and hibernate mode.

Sleep Mode

When in sleep mode, the contents of the RAM of your netbook are preserved while
practically all other components of your netbook are shut down, reducing your
power consumption to a minimum. By pressing any key on the keypad, you can
bring your netbook back to the fully operational state. You will restart at precisely
the line in which you were working prior to the interruption. The computer takes
less time to go into and come out of sleep mode, but uses more power than

hibernate mode.

Hibernate Mode
The hibernate mode is an alternative to a complete shutdown of the netbook. In
this mode all data from RAM (system and graphic data) are copied to the hard disk
as a file. As soon as the data has been safely saved, the netbook powers down.
When the netbook is switched on again, this file is written back to RAM by the BIOS.
In a few moments the netbook is in the exact state as when it was last used. If while
working on a document the netbook is closed (assuming the correct ACPI setting),
the netbook saves the data in RAM for you automatically. You will restart at
precisely the line in which you were working prior to the interruption. The
computer uses no power while it is in hibernate mode, but it takes a little longer for
the computer to go into and come out of hibernation compared to sleep.
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