Bingo! That is why for the past few years every laptop I have bought has OS X on it. The hardware works, in particular sleep suspend. Close the lid and it goes to sleep, open the lid and it wakes up in moments, not thirty seconds. On the desktop I run Linux, but for a laptop it is all OS X. Everything I do is c/c++, unix, or web related so working in OS X doesn't matter.

uh, suspend/resume works fine on both my laptop and my netbook under linux...

But keep telling yourself that Windows is the future; it's part of my competitive advantage ;-)

The point that Linux enthusiasts become Linux realists is when they realize it doesn't magically work on every computer, and buy something to suit.

I hit the power button, choose suspend or hibernate.

Later I hit the keyboard to resume, enter my screensaver password, and resume work.

Edit: I play music and download files with the lid closed. So I don't want my computer to turn off when I do that. And OS X uses screensaver when resuming too - I own one.