Thread: Does switching off and on consume more power than standby?
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Originally Posted by brashley46 View Post
If I can chime in here, my old Zaurus is hardly ever powered off either. It does have a "suspend" button, however, which seems to be something the N8x0s lack, am I right?
Well, no, the devices can be suspended in the typical deep-sleep mode of most computers, but hardware watchdog is gonna step in and reboot the thing for you because it thinks it's dead.

Really, though, ARM at idle isn't all that different from ARM suspended for the short-term.