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Do you turn your MBP off?
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I turn it off every night before I go to bed. I find it works better the next day if you turn it off at night... or maybe that's just a leftover from my peecee days I can't seem to get rid of 
http://www.axoniclabs.com/DeepSleep/
It is $5...I have not bought it yet but I used the trial and it worked fine.
R
Never
And rare restart it:
[13/11/2012 16:19:49] $ uptime
16:19 up 166 days, 6:07, 3 users, load averages: 0.77 0.73 0.87
Wow I wish our Linux server at work had uptimes like that. I remember a while back we had a BSD system uptime 600 something days.
I answered Power Off, for me I think its just force of habit.
I turn it off everytime in mountain lion since it only takes 3-5 seconds to boot, but in my windows 7 partition, I just use hibernate
It all depends on usage;
If you are one of those people who use it, and then don't know when you will need it again (today, tomorrow, etc.), turn it off!
If you use it repeatedly throughout the day, and have easy access to power, sleep it!
If you use it from time to time throughout the day and do not have easy access to power, hibernate it!
If you are taking it mobile and want to maintain battery power (like heading out to the airport for a long flight), hibernate it!
BTW, to people with hard drives (not SSD), I have to say that rebooting it often is NOT ideal for performance. I noticed that with so much staying in RAM during sleep, the performance was immediately GREAT when waking up. But if you shut it down, you are reloading what is common into RAM and you lose that benefit. With SSD I do not see that so much as disk access is so much faster.
R
If you are one of those people who use it, and then don't know when you will need it again (today, tomorrow, etc.), turn it off!
If you use it repeatedly throughout the day, and have easy access to power, sleep it!
If you use it from time to time throughout the day and do not have easy access to power, hibernate it!
If you are taking it mobile and want to maintain battery power (like heading out to the airport for a long flight), hibernate it!
BTW, to people with hard drives (not SSD), I have to say that rebooting it often is NOT ideal for performance. I noticed that with so much staying in RAM during sleep, the performance was immediately GREAT when waking up. But if you shut it down, you are reloading what is common into RAM and you lose that benefit. With SSD I do not see that so much as disk access is so much faster.
R
Im only on this forum trying to decide between ordering an MBP Or MBA so excuse please when I show ignorance. But I thought if you backed up regularly, you should let it go to sleep mode overnight?
I never turn it off, I don't see the point. I have a SSD drive, so startup times doesn't really bother me. Also, I have a lot of apps open and I want it to remain open and not have to worry about it every time I go to bed or something. I even have InsomniaX that tricks it to be functional even when the lid is closed (for Home Sharing purposes).
However, the only time I do turn it off is when I'm going on a trip and I won't have access to my MBP for quite some time or some sort of charging station. But, that's rare.
However, the only time I do turn it off is when I'm going on a trip and I won't have access to my MBP for quite some time or some sort of charging station. But, that's rare.
That is what I was using to manually put my MBP in "deep sleep". I don't recall it costing money, that must be new. And I could be wrong, but I don't think it does what I'm talking about: I want my my Mac to go into regular sleep when I shut the lid, but either after a certain amount of time being in regular sleep and/or at a certain battery percentage go into "deep sleep".
I just found this which might do what I'm talking about (allows setting battery percentage for when to deep sleep): http://www.jinx.de/SmartSleep.html
It costs $5.95. I haven't tried it yet. It's not entire clear if it'll switch to deep sleep while it's in the middle of regular sleep, or you have to be actually closing the lid at a certain battery percentage for it go into deep sleep.
I turn it off when it goes through the x-ray machine at the airport. Because I have some odd, and totally unfounded paranoia that leaving it on and putting it through the machine is bad for it.
I don't see the point of turning it off. You don't really lose any battery while in sleep mode. It gets a reboot when needed for an update and that's it. My desktop PC has been on for about 2 years now, excluding reboots for updates, except when I updated some new parts.