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Do you Sleep or Power Off?

Sleep or Power Off?

  • Sleep

    Votes: 58 75.3%

  • Power Off

    Votes: 19 24.7%
  • Total voters
    77
rph105

rph105

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Jul 21, 2007
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I just sleep my Mac whenever I'm away from it, I can't be asked to keep booting it every morning! What about you?
 
Neither!
I leave it running and only the monitor goes to sleep. If I am away for a longer time then I put my Mac to sleep.
 
My MacBook sometimes has trouble waking from sleep correctly. I have to press the power button a few seconds, then once more (shortly) and it will wake from what I think is hibernation. There are a couple of rounded rectangles on an otherwise gray screen, near the bottom of the screen, making up a progress bar. When all rectangles are full, my MacBook is usable again. Sometimes, it won't wake at all, leaving me with no other option than to restart it. Really annoying.

Anyone else experiencing this problem? What could be causing it?
 
i use neither, i use Deep Sleep (a different method of sleeping). basically the same as hibernation mode for winblows.

when my laptop is at home i never turn it off though.

Bengt77 said:
My MacBook sometimes has trouble waking from sleep correctly. I have to press the power button a few seconds, then once more (shortly) and it will wake from what I think is hibernation. There are a couple of rounded rectangles on an otherwise gray screen, near the bottom of the screen, making up a progress bar. When all rectangles are full, my MacBook is usable again. Sometimes, it won't wake at all, leaving me with no other option than to restart it. Really annoying.

Anyone else experiencing this problem? What could be causing it?
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aaaahhh i know your exact problem, and i know how to change it!!

download (or see if you already have installed) the Widget called "Deep Sleep", its a moon that sits in the dashboard. once you have it, click the "i" button and select the "Regular Sleep Mode" part, make sure that is either "Quick", or "Safe". you can also change that for the bottom one, but id leave it at "Deep".
 
Thank you! I'm going to try it out now. I guess I won't see the result immediately, as it didn't happen every time, but I'll be able to see if it helped over the next few days.
 
Macs are designed to wake up instantly from sleep and be ready for use right away.

I always sleep mine, never turn it off (unless I'm away from it for a few days). The instant on is great. I could never be arsed waiting for it to boot up every time I wanted to use it.
 
Kilamite said:
Macs are designed to wake up instantly from sleep and be ready for use right away.

I always sleep mine, never turn it off (unless I'm away from it for a few days). The instant on is great. I could never be arsed waiting for it to boot up every time I wanted to use it.
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Oh yes i couldnt agree more! The only thing that annoys me about the light sleep is that the memory hogs the battery so much! I just wish that it wasnt so heavy on it but ah well..
 
DoFoT9 said:
Oh yes i couldnt agree more! The only thing that annoys me about the light sleep is that the memory hogs the battery so much! I just wish that it wasnt so heavy on it but ah well..
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Isn't that bad. If I sleep my Mac at 100% and leave it over night, it'll have about 93% remaining. That is from 12 hours worth of sleeping. Isn't that bad!
 
Most of the times sleep. I'll occasionally reboot it about once every other day or so or if I know Im going to be gone for more than a few hours, I'll shut it down.
 
Need a "Both" option ;)

On the notebooks I just close the lid if I'm coming back to the machine soon or I've got stuff open that I'll immediately resume. If I'm done with them for the day then they go off.

Desktops... neither, they run 24x7.
 
I turn mine off, at least overnight. Sure it hardly uses any current in sleep, but it still uses a little. Lots of small actions will help lower my electric bill and preserve the earth. :)
 
Sleep.

On a tangent note, I would sleep the Win/Dell Workstations where I work but Microsoft can't seem to get "sleep" right. On many occasions they are unable to wake up and only a forced power down (holding down the power button) and boot up will revive them. I used to think was only a Win 2000 issue but XP has shown it is can do perma-sleep-mode also.

I wish Microsoft would copy Apple's technique. I actually works quite well!
 
I keep my imac on about 8-12 hours a day. Always on when i'm around.
Normally put it to sleep during night, shutdown when leaving house for longer time(1-2 days)...
 
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