[edster]

Just a completely bogus story by someone who must not be a Mac user.

I put my MacBook to sleep and it wakes up instantly. I shut down my MacBook and it takes a min to boot.

I put my iPad to sleep and it wakes up instantly. I shut down my iPad and it takes a min to boot.

It's the exact same interaction. My MacBook will sleep for a day or more with no problem, come back and it's instant on. If it sleeps to the point of killing the battery it hibernates instead where the RAM is written to disk.

I think this guy doesn't understand how well Macs perform with sleep/hibernate/shutdown and he's imagining it works like his generic PC.