Acer’s Swift 3 is one of several laptops announced at CES that support Modern Standby.
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When you wake up your phone, it’s instantly ready to work and your email, texts and notifications are all up to date because, even with your phone asleep, it’s still connected and updating itself — and it’s doing it without a big hit to your battery life. Modern Standby is Microsoft’s effort to bring that instant-on, ready-to-go feel to PCs and, while it’s not a new feature, Acer, Lenovo and other PC makers promoted it in their CES 2020 laptop announcements.
Introduced in Windows 10, Modern Standby is an expansion of Windows 8.1’s Connected Standby, a low-power idle that allows your computer to stay up to date…
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