Re: [Bug 10797] Something is consuming power after shutdown

On Sat, 31 May 2008, Pavel Machek wrote:
(And yes, your hw is broken; on pc it is traditionaly hw
responsibility to power machine down.)

Something changed in the laptop vendor's minds about this since Vista.
Very new ThinkPads also had this problem (I am not sure it has been
fixed already or not).

We may have to start shutting down every device and bus on our way out
for lunch when told to go into S5, now. Time will tell.

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