Do you leave your Mini on at night?

[Saberon2014]

Just curious what everyone does. Shutdown at night or leave on?

 

[now i see it]

No

 

[August West]

The only time mine gets turned off is when the power goes out.

 

[chrfr]

My M1 and 2012 Minis have both pretty much been on every day since I bought them new.

 

[DeltaMac]

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.

 

[jazz1]

On since the day I got it. I just let it sleep when not in use.

 

[FFabian]

I’ll let it sleep. I did the same to my previous Mac, an iMac 2019, that I had for 3 years. Never had an issue with it.

 

[eldho]

I leave it on

 

[gazwas]

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!

 

[PauloSera]

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!

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Nope.

You are incorrect.

 

[AlixSPQR]

I never turn it on. That'd be like killing the planet.

Spoiler

Just kidding. It's on 24/7 but scheduled to go to sleep at 2300 hours.

 

[russell_314]

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.

 

[FreakinEurekan]

My minis (two M1s) both stay on 24/7, but they do sleep. The power draw in sleep mode is minuscule.

 

[MallardDuck]

Just curious what everyone does. Shutdown at night or leave on?

Leave it on, blank the screen, prevent sleep.

 

[WeRNutz]

My M1 and 2012 Minis have both pretty much been on every day since I bought them new.

Same here with my M1 and 2012 mini's. My 2012 has been my primary server for 5 years and never gets turned off.

 

[headlessmike]

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.

 

[goodcow]

Both my minis are on 24/7.

 

[spatlese44]

My M1 and 2012 Minis have both pretty much been on every day since I bought them new.

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.

 

[spatlese44]

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.

 

[Timpetus]

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.

 

[FFabian]

Just saw this Video. Jump right to the end at 27:19. The M2 Mini draws zero power when sleeping.

 

[AlixSPQR]

Looks like a few of us hung on to the 2012 version.

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.

 

[tstafford]

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).

 

[TechRunner]

My M1 Mini stays on unless we get a direct hit from a Cat 4 hurricane. Again.

 

[IngerMan]

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 🙂