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I know that when you put your Mac laptop to sleep and the battery dies, next time you plug it in it will wake up from the state it was prior to being put to sleep. There are also hacks to get this behavior with a desktop Mac (except it triggers when you put the Mac to sleep and unplug it).

Is there a way to trigger this behavior without cutting power, and that will still let me put my Mac to sleep normally? Like Windows 7's Hibernate option.

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Damn. I thought I could use this to switch between OS X and Windows efficiently, but the boot loader won't let you boot on anything else than Mac OS if it's been put in hibernation. – zneak Aug 23 '10 at 1:21
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I think for you it's better to use parallels Desktop. it's really good software and make you able to boot your install windows on your mac. – Am1rr3zA Aug 23 '10 at 1:43
@Am1rr3zA: I already have VMWare Fusion, that I use for work-related stuff. The reason I want to boot my machine on Windows is to play Starcraft 2, because performances on OS X are far below those of Windows. – zneak Aug 23 '10 at 2:44
I am glad you plat Starcraft II, I am a big fan of blizzard too but I get starcraft for OS X and don't have your problem :P – Am1rr3zA Aug 23 '10 at 2:47
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@Am1rr3zA: it's totally playable under OS X for sure. However, with my current-gen MacBook Pro under Windows I can put the game in 1680x1050 with graphics somewhere above medium and still get a smooth 60+ frames per second, and it never drops below that. Under Mac OS, with the same settings, things aren't smooth. So it's good for you if you like Starcraft II under Mac OS, but until Apple or NVidia or whoever's responsible does some serious efforts at making the graphics drivers better, I'll play it under Windows because there is a very noticeable difference. – zneak Aug 23 '10 at 7:23
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yes of course you can I Myself use Deep Sleep widget (second link) to put my macbook-pro into hibernations.

and if you prefer command line(terminal) read this article.

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You could use DeepSleep.

I know this is a widget, but if you want an application, do the following :

  1. Download the widget and uncompress the zip file containing it, but do not install it.

  2. Right-click on the widget, the select Show Package Contents.

    right click

  3. Copy the DeepSleep Application where you want.

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There is a pref pane called smart sleep that is pretty good

http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/system_disk_utilities/smartsleep.html

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This link is dead. – nohat May 20 '12 at 17:05
jinx.de/SmartSleep.html – lensovet Sep 7 '12 at 2:01
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What also works is Insomnia. It also prevents Mac OS X from exactly that if you want.

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Link doesn't work and doesn't answer the question. – Studer Aug 24 '10 at 20:27
link would have worked if willing to press "search" just once more, edited it now. plus: it answers the question. it can put the mac in sleep mode. that was the topic of the question. – Jemus42 Sep 8 '10 at 19:22

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