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What is Power Management?
•System standby and hibernate place the computer (CPU, hard drive, etc.) into sleep mode after a pre-set period of inactivity
•Mouse or keyboard input can quickly wake computer
•Built into Windows, Mac OS X, some varieties of Linux
•Settings simply need to be activated
We will be talking mostly about Windows machines today, so for our purposes, PM is either system standby or hibernate.

NEXT SLIDE: You may already be familiar with MPM…