Yes, I think this is better for desktops than laptops. The power of standby mode is not an issue, but the loss of state in a power interruption is.

Now what I really want, which I will blog about later is a “sleepwalking” mode where the computer goes very low power, but still has a processor, memory, a few sensors and wired ethernet active (at least at the WoL level.) This could be a way of running your real processor at the lowest possible clock, or it could even justify having a super-low-power microcontroller on the bus.

Among the things sleepwalk mode could do is watch accelerometers and figure out when you have put the computer down for a while, and then wake up the real computer to perform the hibernate. And abort the hibernate if you pick the computer up.

I have a few other goals for sleepwalking mode that I will blog about later.