SmartSleep for Mac
Prefpane that dynamically sets the sleep state of your machine.
$3.99
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SmartSleep overview
SmartSleep is a preference pane that dynamically sets the sleep state of your machine. It's a successor to Hibernate.prefPane.
The Problem - Your MacBook or MacBook Pro knows the following sleep states:
- sleep: machine will go to sleep only (saves state in RAM only, battery keeps RAM contents)
- sleep and hibernate: machine sleeps and hibernates. (default)
- hibernate only: machine will go to hibernate only. (saves state on disk, battery will not be used)
- Just sleep means that the notebook will go to sleep fast, but you loose the ability to change the battery as the battery is needed to keep the contents of the memory (RAM).
- Just sleep and hibernate will wake the computer fast, but sleeping will take ages as the contents of the memory are saved to disk before entering the sleep.
What’s new in version 3.22
Version 3.22:
- Added default overrides for pmset. SmartSleep uses pmset to set the values for sleep, hibernate, sleep and hibernate and system default. You can now override the values that SmartSleep uses:
- pmsetvalueforsleep
- pmsetvalueforsleepandhibernate
- pmsetvalueforhibernate
- pmsetvalueforsystemdefault
- Added Retina menu-bar icons - thanx to Mario Bieh for creating them.
- Added OS-dependent update mechanism for future updates.
- Added more Help pages.
- Changed how the application behaves when it's installed incorrectly.
- No longer needs a setting to explicitly allow running in background as SmartSleep does not need to follow Apples AppStore rules. So SmartSleep daemon automatically runs in background when you you use something other than System default as setting.
- Fixed a bug that would cause SmartSleep not to set the correct sleep state when not run in background.
- Fixed a bug that App Store receipts from older computers would not be moved away.
- Fixed a few typos and linked to Info.html inside the dmg.
SmartSleep for Mac
$3.99
In English
Version 3.22
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Jan 11 2015
Version: 3.22
"Just sleep means that the notebook will go to sleep fast, but you loose the ability…"
I think you want "lose" there. :)
Oct 6 2013
Version: 3.22
Can't get is working on 10.6.8. With SmartSleep enabled or not, hibernate or standby, the system still behaves same way like if it was just a normal stand by - no hibernation (or at least I don't see any progress bar showing the stuff is being saved on disk) and the light is still blinking indicating it's StandBy. Waking up same thing, no difference. I don't event know how the hibernation mode would look different from Standby.
Am I missing something here? Or is it just not compatible with OSX 10.6.8?
Jul 17 2013
Version: 3.10
I recently upgraded to 10.8.4 and an SSD drive and I'm not sure my 2012 MBP is entirely sleep happy. Quite often in the morning it will return slowly from hibernate even though power is connected, battery is at 100% and smart sleep is enabled.
Also I notice the eyes blink in the menu item occasionally. And when I have Bartender running, the smartsleep icon appears randomly every few minutes, suggesting that something is bothering it (even though battery is 100% and power is in).
Any thoughts?
v3.22
Apr 12 2013
Version: 3.10
Probably SmartSleep is doing something more, but SafeSleepOnce could be enough for most of us... (it is working great and is free... ;-)
Jan 6 2013
Version: 3.10
SmartSleep is now at version 3.20. Anyone who bought the Mac App Store version can overwrite it with the latest version downloaded direct from the dev, and that version will automatically update when new versions are available. See the dev's website for details.
