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cpncrunch on April 19, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: MacBook gets a Skylake speed boost, 8GB of memory,...

There's no need to pay for software to do this. It's just a matter of running a single command as root to change the hibernate mode:

http://www.markc.me.uk/blog/files/OSXSafeSleep.html

leejoramo on April 20, 2016 [–]

If all you want to do is change the Sleep/Hibernate modes you are correct that the command line will do it for you.

SmartSleep does add a significant trick, it allows you to automatically change the mode based on the current battery level.

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