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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…