My (old) iBook running OSX resumes from suspend before I can get the lid open fully. Is XP that fast (on a two-year-old machine)?

My laptop is over three years old, it is a PII366 with a slow 4200rpm harddisk.

It takes XP 60 seconds to resume from hibernation (i.e. from disk), 20 seconds of which is the BIOS startup time.

It takes it 7 seconds to resume from suspend (i.e. from memory), so not quite before the lid is open, but pretty close.

More importantly it takes about 6 seconds to go from on to hibernate.

This is a huge step forward for me from Win2k, because hibernation under Win2K isn't very reliable on this machine. It takes this machine over 5 minutes to boot under Win2K. It takes 75 seconds to boot under XP.

So for anyone with a laptop, even an old slow one, XP really does make sense. On a typical day the new XP behaviour can easily at 60% to the length of time my battery lasts, because if I am not using it for 15 minutes I can hibernate it and save myself 14 minutes of power.

P.S. I'd be very worried if an iBook didn't resume quickly, you'd expect to get benefits in these sorts of areas by having the hardware more tightly coupled to the software.