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Bimbalbamble
May 2, 2010, 08:30 AM
Is there any bens or draw backs to leaving your iMac in sleep mode when not using it or just switching it off all together??


spinnerlys
May 2, 2010, 08:36 AM
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jerryobr
May 4, 2010, 11:21 AM
I leave mine (TiBook/10.4.8) on all the time; I put it in sleep mode when not using it. The machine does not need daily rebooting, like the Windows PCs do: 10.x is unix, not MS code. There are no drawbacks to this. Sleeping will spin-down the HD too, so the HD is not unnecessarily spinning away.

Jerry