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Shut Down or Sleep?

Shut Down or Sleep?

  • Shut Down

    Votes: 18 20.7%

  • Sleep

    Votes: 69 79.3%
  • Total voters
    87
  • Poll closed .
sk3pt1c

sk3pt1c

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Original poster
Nov 29, 2005
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a simulacrum
do you mostly shut down or put your mac to sleep when you don't need it or at night?

advantages/disadvantages of each?

i mostly put it to sleep when i don't need it, faster to get back at it when i want...

you?

thanks

john
 
If you have 10.4.2 and you sleep your machine, it'll run the daily/weekly/monthly maintenance scripts next time you wake up. If your machine is shut down it will not run these unless your machine is on at the right time (between three and five in the morning). Sleeping it's the bomb.
 
Whenever I want save power, I always shut-down. I have too many upgrades that are incompatible with sleeping and I have the patience to wait a couple of minuteds for a start-up. But shutting down is as very rare for me. I just keep it runnin.
 
I use sleep, it's more convenient for me, one keystroke and the desktop is there how i left it. I very rarely restart my macbook because it's on the move from my room to lectures and back frequently.
 
I shut down at night. Mainly because the glowing light would keep me awake, but also because I don't see a point in using 8 hours of electricity to save myself 10 seconds in the morning.
 
so we also have a new factor, the environment :)
ease vs. ecology
hmmm...
i'd still use Sleep though, sorry ;)
 
looks like power consumption when in sleep mode is so negligable it's not even worth arguing about.
having read some articles, one stat that i saw about PCs is that running a computer in sleep mode for 285 days straight consumes the same power as running a car for 3 hours.
and macs consume far less energy than PCs, so imagine the analogy there.
Sleep mode ROCKS! :)
plus the vibrating (snoring :) ) light is uber-cool :D
 
I just shut my G4 down, as well as my Thinkpad. Both have very fast boot times so it's pretty much comparable with sleep on the units of others'.

21 second boot time is plenty fast for me, I mean my eyes have to adjust and everything too, so I wouldnt really be actively doing anything for that long anyhow.
 
ruutiveijari said:
Yep. And you shouldn't recycle either. I mean, come on, what can just one person do! Or one sleep mode.

Waste is waste. And it's killing the planet.
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-ruutiveijari

Yes, but more energy is consumed in startup than an entire month of sleep.

This is augmented by the fact that productivity out of sleep is much quicker than in startup as well.
 
Sleep. Rarely shut down. Occasional restarts cause I needed to run WinXP for class.

bellychris said:
I wonder how much power is used just starting the machine up vs. leaving it sleeping all night.
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I'd like to know as well. The MB gets a bit hot whenever I run WinXP but is nice and warm when running OSX.
 
Eversince I switched to Mac and read up on this I rarely Shut her down. I do restart because of XP.
 
ruutiveijari said:
Yep. And you shouldn't recycle either. I mean, come on, what can just one person do! Or one sleep mode.

Waste is waste. And it's killing the planet.
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So do you unplug the fridge too when not in use.:rolleyes:

A computer in sleep mode is drawing maybe 10 watts, it is hardly enough to be hurting anything.
 
I'm confused. How can the notebook turn on, if put to sleep in the first place, if it is in a backpack/messenger bag/etc?
 
Sleep FTW!

mad jew said:
Sleeping it's the bomb.
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Truest words I've ever read

phungy said:
I'm confused. How can the notebook turn on, if put to sleep in the first place, if it is in a backpack/messenger bag/etc?
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Well my MB is supposed to put to sleep when I close it but the other day when I went to a cafe, that didn't happen. I opened it and it was extremely hot. The screen wouldn't come out of sleep mode so I had to restart via power button. Once restarted half the battery was discharged. Anyone know if this is a known problem? I'm going to put it to sleep myself from now on. This has never happened to me before.
 
SamIchi said:
Sleep FTW!



Truest words I've ever read



Well my MB is supposed to put to sleep when I close it but the other day when I went to a cafe, that didn't happen. I opened it and it was extremely hot. The screen wouldn't come out of sleep mode so I had to restart via power button. Once restarted half the battery was discharged. Anyone know if this is a known problem? I'm going to put it to sleep myself from now on. This has never happened to me before.
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Oh interesting. Between classes I just close the lid but when bringing the MB to campus I actually click :apple: -> Sleep.
 
SamIchi said:
Sleep FTW!



Truest words I've ever read



Well my MB is supposed to put to sleep when I close it but the other day when I went to a cafe, that didn't happen. I opened it and it was extremely hot. The screen wouldn't come out of sleep mode so I had to restart via power button. Once restarted half the battery was discharged. Anyone know if this is a known problem? I'm going to put it to sleep myself from now on. This has never happened to me before.
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Make sure you have run all the SMC updates. Had the same problem on a Macbook till I ran them and now everything is fine. The spec doesn;t specify that that it cures this issue, but ever since I ran it, it wasn't an issue. Maybe just luck, but give it a whirl.
 
home : sleep.
work : put screensaver on. never shut down and never sleep since need to keep server running.
 
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