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Do you leave your Mini on at night?
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The only time mine gets turned off is when the power goes out.
I never shut down at night, but I also do not leave it on.
Sleeping is better than a shutdown, at least for me.
As above, my mini is almost never shut off.
Sleeping is better than a shutdown, at least for me.
As above, my mini is almost never shut off.
On since the day I got it. I just let it sleep when not in use.
Not switching any electrical device off at night that isn't essential is irresponsible and wasteful in todays world!
While a solitary computer sipping power at night is personally very minor, collectively if all computer users globally share the same mindset it's a different story.
Just switch it off!
While a solitary computer sipping power at night is personally very minor, collectively if all computer users globally share the same mindset it's a different story.
Just switch it off!
I never turn it on. That'd be like killing the planet.
Just kidding. It's on 24/7 but scheduled to go to sleep at 2300 hours.
When I had my 2018 Intel mini I would just let it go to sleep by the default settings. I manually don't turn off any of my modern computers. They have power settings for a reason, and it automatically takes care of that.
My minis (two M1s) both stay on 24/7, but they do sleep. The power draw in sleep mode is minuscule.
Same here with my M1 and 2012 mini's. My 2012 has been my primary server for 5 years and never gets turned off.
Since getting my M1 mini I’ve started shutting it off more frequently. It boots faster than my 2012 mini wakes up from sleep and can reopen everything automatically.
Same setup and I just let them sleep as well. Looks like a few of us hung on to the 2012 version. I’m planning on phasing it out but will keep it for dual boot or who knows, but once I get another M# mini the the 2012 gets turned off at night.
Btw, read in another thread that sleep is something like .7W vs off which is still .3W. It’s going to be -10F here tonight so my .3W is at least heating the house.
My 2014 is my file server so it’s on 24/7/365. No noticeable impact on my power bill since I bought it years ago. Night hours are when electricity is cheap anyways, so NBD.
Just saw this Video. Jump right to the end at 27:19. The M2 Mini draws zero power when sleeping.
Me too. An i7 with two SSD’s. It works fine with OCLP and Monterey. I don’t need a new mini but I will buy a base model when RAM is bumped up to 16 GB.
I never turn any of my Macs off and only reboot when forced to because something isn't working right (or required by an update).
My M1 Mini stays on unless we get a direct hit from a Cat 4 hurricane. Again.
Mine has basically been on 4 years this month of February when I purchased my 2018 i7 512SSD user upgrade to 32GB Ram. I also leave my eGPU Sonnet Puck on as well and just let my screen go to sleep. The only time I power down is for software updates or a power outage 