State of S3 - Your Laptop is no Laptop anymore - a personal Rant
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The state of laptop standby is currently dysfunctional. This personal rant outlines the events that have led to this situation.

In this article, I aim to take a different approach. We will begin by defining a laptop according to my understanding. The I will share my personal history and journey to this point, as well as my current situation with my home and work laptops. Using this perspective, we will explore the current dysfunctionality of the standby function in modern laptops, followed by a discussion of why this feature still has relevance and right to exist. Finally, we will draw conclusions on what we can learn and take away from this.

  • ThyTTY
    12•7 months ago

    Where can I find beforehand which laptop supports S3? Are there any know brands that do?

    • @[email protected]
      7•7 months ago

      Nothing with a recent AMD gfx Card or APU will officially support S3, and I think Nvidia is the same. Just because it isn’t supported doesn’t mean they’ll intentionally break anything, but over time you’ll have more and more bugs related to it and one day it will break and never be fixed.

      Personally I use S4 (hibernate) more or less exclusively.