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Sleep or Shutdown?

How do you leave your Air for periods of inactivity?

  • Sleep Mode

    Votes: 146 78.9%

  • Shut Down

    Votes: 39 21.1%
  • Total voters
    185
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honggil

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Original poster
Jul 20, 2011
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Hello MacRumors members!

Personally, I leave it in sleep mode. But I also know friends who shut down. *Obviously* time of inactivity plays a factor, but I'm referring to majority of the time!

Do you guys leave your Air in sleep mode or shut it down when you're not using it for a period of time?

This is just for curiosity... :)
 
Sleep. I normally wouldn't shutdown, unless it were for an extended period of time. Restarts are normally only when required for an update.
 
Sleep, since OS X has had this feature I have always used it, only restarting on updates from Apple if needed. Shutting down isn't that one of Windows specialties ;) I often find those who have recently moved to Mac will often shutdown the computer, OS X there is little or no need to shutdown...
 
If I'm going to be inactive for more than 15 minutes, I shut down. Shut downs and restarts are so zippy on MBAs.
 
I also shut down because I got used to having to regularly shut down and restart on Windows to prevent OS crashes.
 
Queen6 said:
Shutting down isn't that one of Windows specialties ;) I often find those who have recently moved to Mac will often shutdown the computer, OS X there is little or no need to shutdown...
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This is true. :eek:

I just switched to a mac so its a bit of a habit for me. Though I am going to try and get into the habit of just putting it to sleep instead.
 
VMMan said:
I also shut down because I got used to having to regularly shut down and restart on Windows to prevent OS crashes.
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It's just not necessary with OS-X. Since the first really useable version (which I would say was 10.1, I've never felt the need to regularly restart. (At the time, all of my high-level development was in Windows - I was totally immersed in it at work - and, refreshingly immersed in OS-X at home/home business. :) )
 
I may shut my Mac down once a month. If that.

There's no real need to shut down unless you're going away for an extended period (and even then, there's no need to).
 
Well, if we are talking NEED, there is no need to put it to sleep either. I mean, 15 second boot is pretty quick. But with SSDs I think it's the way to. Its just that us old timers used to spinning hard drives and crappy OSes have habits that are hard to break...
 
For me it depends...if I know I have to get up early for example and I have to use my MBA straight away then I just let it go to sleep. If not then I usually shut it down...
 
ZBoater said:
Well, if we are talking NEED, there is no need to put it to sleep either. I mean, 15 second boot is pretty quick. But with SSDs I think it's the way to. Its just that us old timers used to spinning hard drives and crappy OSes have habits that are hard to break...
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15 seconds? More like double that on my 2010 11" ultimate
 
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ZBoater said:
Well, if we are talking NEED, there is no need to put it to sleep either. I mean, 15 second boot is pretty quick. But with SSDs I think it's the way to. Its just that us old timers used to spinning hard drives and crappy OSes have habits that are hard to break...
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I don't know about that. I've gotten more forgetful in my old age and not having to remember to turn something off is a plus.
 
Coming from UNIX ;) I like to build decent "uptime" values so usually only reboot when it is required. Having to reboot to fix things, reinstall software etc are concessions to bad code, so I try to avoid that.
 
ZBoater said:
Well, if we are talking NEED, there is no need to put it to sleep either. I mean, 15 second boot is pretty quick. But with SSDs I think it's the way to. Its just that us old timers used to spinning hard drives and crappy OSes have habits that are hard to break...
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I just shut down my MacBook Pro 4.1 2.4Ghz Penryn last week, outside of the odd restart from Apple, this is the first time the machine has been fully off since 2008 :eek: there is no need to shut down your Mac, and there is absolutely no benefit. OS X performs routine self maintenance, if you shut the computer down the system wont complete the tasks, if you sleep the OS will run the routine's on the next wake up - it`s time to let go of Windows ;)

And the Penryn, well having more than earned it`s dues, it now moves to the standby system, with the new Air being primary, well until Apple release a Pro that is designed to run SSD from the ground up :apple:
 
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I normally just put my MB Air to sleep unless I know I won't be using it again for a while.

- Jamsta2
 
Sleep is the best option. Shutting down/booting up everyday leads to more wear and tear as well as reduced battery life. If you let your mac sleep a day you'll lost at most 5%. The bootup power needed gets close to it + you lose time waiting for everything to show up.

I've also heard that you could shutdown/reboot perhaps once a fortnight to get rid of any garbage clogged in the RAM -- but i rarely do that. I do run it down once a month for battery calibration though.
 
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