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Originally Posted by JGBerry  (snip) USB hosts on computers will not "cut off" power to the USB port even if the USB host suspends itself, due to the fact that there are too many complications in getting the USB host out of the suspend state when power is cut off. (snip) |
This may be true for desktops, but I've had 3 different laptops over the last 6 years, and all of them (2 Dells and a Thinkpad T60) disabled power to the USB ports when suspended.