This thread covers two issues: Battery life and hibernation.
These are just items of interest, no need to respond if busy.
After a week's test, the battery was down to about 23% this morning, with only 4 or 5 starts to quickly enter the charge-state into my log. This is much lower than the Geek Squad's estimation of 10% a week, so I phoned Sony and got me'self a case number.
This was with the computer SHUT DOWN at all other times.
A nice young lady in Manila took control of the kit and installed a battery condition monitoring program. Okay, that's on record now.
Last night, at about 03:00, The Rivetess popped up bottom right...I should rephrase that...as having come on line. Again, no sign of her, just her lappy sitting there with all its lights on. Odd. This morning I confirmed that it had been put into hibernate.
If it was the first time, I'd be suspicious, but now it seems that there is a way that the system can be brought to life from Hibernate at the command of some piece of software/firmware/clock-time etc.
I wonder if this is a dedicated circuit that is programed from the OS while everything is awake. I also wonder if this 'readiness' consumes power, though I'm not relating it to my Sony's issues cos that was always OFF.