Sanna Tielman,

Thank you for using Dell's Community Forum.

You could, but I wouldn’t suggest it. The system could overheat in the carrying case. Also, I don’t see the major advantage to traveling with the system in hibernate mode.

Thanks for the answer!

The advantage is that I won't have to start all over when I turn on the computer, ie. open documents, finding the point in the text where I left off (I travel to and from my office every morning and night...)

So the main disadvantage is the risk of overheating? But no problem concerning disks? (that they can get damaged by the movements?)

Message Edited by Sanna Tielman on 12-10-2004 10:10 AM

Message Edited by Sanna Tielman on 12-10-2004 10:10 AM

(I was wondering the same thing, but felt too stupid to dare to ask... :smileywink: )

There's no more risk with the PC in hibernate mode vs. having the computer turned off.  From a physical standpoint, the two states are exactly the same.  The only difference is that Hibernate stores a copy of the RAM on the HD, and 'booting' loads that image back to RAM when the computer is powered on.  There is no risk whatsoever of overheating in Hibernation.  Standby is a different story.

Thanks A LOT for your answer. This really saves me a lot of work!

Just give your laptop 15 seconds of "doing nothing" to let the fan cool down the system a bit (esp the cpu, if it's hot). If you hibernate/suspend/shutdown when hot and stick it right in the bag, the heat has nowhere to go and cooks other components.