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How can I manually put a Macbook Pro to hibernate without going to sleep mode first?

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Mar 15, 202673744 views
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I recently got my first Mac computer, a late 2009 Macbook Pro model. I used to put my previous notebook (running windows 7) to hibernate directly in order to save battery but I can't do the same in Mac Os. From what I can tell Mac Os only hibernate a notebook when battery dies after a long sleeping period. Is that a way to manually put a Macbook to hibernate?

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Switching the hibernation mode to 25 will make make a MacBook hibernate instead of sleep (see discussion below as to whether it's a good idea). To revert it back to the default for MacBooks do (which powers the ram and writes image to disk) If you want to sleep/hibernate your machine from the command line do Is it a good idea to hibernate your MacBook? If your machine supports mode, then there isn't much point in changing the hibernate mode, because by default it is in standby after 1.15hrs. In…

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