Sleep. Occasional restart. Rarely shut it down now. Used to when I first migrated from Windows/PC.
Feel free to do whatever you want.
BUT
I don't think you are appreciating all the work Apple has done to make sleep the perfect solution for your computer when not in use. I NEVER shut down my computer unless absolutely necessary. I've been doing this since 2009 and no issues at all. I'm the one paying my electric bill and I can tell you the charging of a ULV laptop in sleep mode is not making a difference. Unlike previous MBPs sleep takes almost no battery life even when I leave my laptop asleep and unplugged overnight. And it is MUCH easier to open the lid and immediately start doing whatever you were last doing than to start up the computer again even if you check the open last used windows option (which isn't supported properly by all programs btw).
IMHO you are unnecessarily making life harder for yourself for no added benefit but if it makes you feel better that is fine. I spent most of a day doing a fresh install instead of the simple migration that apple recommends for moving to a new computer because that made me feel better even though many here with say that is completely unnecessary.
I'm still baffled. Like I said, I shut down when ever I am away for more than 10-15minutes, provided I have nothing downloading/uploading or syncing.!
see I'm still not understanding.
It isn't accessible if it is shut down?
And it is really a pain to relaunch 5-10 programs? don't they run at start-up anyways? And even then, there is an option to reopen windows on boot.
I mean, it seems to me like you guys are not truly understanding how awesome the PCIe SSDs are... and are not making use of it?
I'm still baffled. Like I said, I shut down when ever I am away for more than 10-15minutes, provided I have nothing downloading/uploading or syncing.
Edit: Wait, so someone is suggesting that shutting down and booting will exhaust more power than leaving the device on 24/7??????
What?!
Please don't get emotional about it. I am just trying to seek to understand what perspectives people have with the Air, especially people that have been using the machine for a long time.
@Saturn- So you don't have heat issues with years of putting an Air on sleep? No fan issues, and no glitches or where the Macbook Air is overworked from lack of shutdown?
That's actually really impressive. 2% loss on a night's worth of sleep is amazing. I'm going to note how much power it actually loses on sleep tonight.
Cheers.
Thanks for the kind feedback guys.
I am going to do the same now. Keep the lid closed during the day, and shut down only at night. Admittedly, I was shutting down a more than a couple times a day. Always during lunch break, and always at night... and most commonly when I go play sports or hit the gym.
But yea, it's true - once I went to get some beers from 7-11 and shut it down just so it would cool down. I guess letting it sleep should do the trick with this technological masterpiece.
I guess it makes sense. I'm still shocked that some people almost never power off their laptop. I'm still curious to know if it harms your device to keep it running for a month, or from what I'm reading in this thread - years without shutting down.
Cheers.
...I'm still curious to know if it harms your device to keep it running for a month, or from what I'm reading in this thread - years without shutting down.
Cheers.
Sleeping your computer is nothing new.
My first laptop in 1998, was a Sony Windows, already had this sleep feature, and Windows would boot up in 3 whole minutes, more reason to not shut it down for, almost, instant access.
As far as harms, my employer has tons of PC in the computer room, and these are not expensive, MILitary grades, they are cheap clones and are on 24x7. Once a while one breaks down because of a tired power supply but that's it. Am surprised myself spinning hard drives can go and go and go, so now the Air even has solid state memory. Your computer will most likely retires because of obsolescent, accidents, than because u think u used it TOO MUCH.
...My first laptop in 1998, was a Sony Windows, already had this sleep feature, and Windows would boot up in 3 whole minutes, more reason to not shut it down for, almost, instant access....
Please don't get emotional about it. I am just trying to seek to understand what perspectives people have with the Air, especially people that have been using the machine for a long time.
@Saturn- So you don't have heat issues with years of putting an Air on sleep? No fan issues, and no glitches or where the Macbook Air is overworked from lack of shutdown?
That's actually really impressive. 2% loss on a night's worth of sleep is amazing. I'm going to note how much power it actually loses on sleep tonight.
Cheers.
It's a laptop, and not a desktop - so obviously, I shut it down whenever I'm not using it.
Even if I run to 7-11 for 10 minutes, I shut down. I don't get why I would put it to sleep? I've got the laptop with the fastest boot time in the world at about 10 seconds.
Needlessly shutting down seems like insanity to me. What possible incentive could there be to do that?
I'm hearing the "shutting down is insanity/stupid" assertion by the last couple of you guys.
But I'm not seeing any facts or arguments to back up your statement.
Not saying I agree and/or disagree - Just saying that saying someone else is 'silly' or 'wrong'... doesn't automatically make you right....right?