[quote user="Ezekiel Rage"][quote user="malfist"]
It's talking about sleep, not total 'turn off computer and lose all data save to ram because it's volatal memory'. Memory is RAM. I see no WTF, sorry.
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I think you misunderstood, I dont think WTF is that they are 'saving to RAM while turning off' (or sleeping or whatever), it's they are saying its 'saving to RAM'. Period. Saving to RAM? from where? Isn't it already in RAM?
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Sorry, but actually YOU are misunderstanding what "Standby" mode is. In standby mode, an "image" of the contents of RAM is created and then written to RAM (and the previous contents of RAM are deleted); when the machine comes OUT of Standby, the RAM image is read and re-written into RAM (and the "image" of RAM is deleted). This is functionally very similar to the way "Hibernate" mode works, except in Hibernate mode the RAM image is written to the hard drive and the RAM is then powered down (along with the rest of the computer). Standby mode allows the computer to enter a very low-power mode but resume normal operations very quickly. You can google for more details.
There is no WTF here - the Microsoft website is absolutely correct (though intentionally sparse on the details, considering their audience).