I just bought my new Macbook Air and i'm thrilled with it! It's the perfect laptop, however i'm concerned about turning it off. My question is this: i take my MBA everyday to college. When I travel with it, should i turn it off during the trip? It's like a one hour trip.
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Should i turn off my new 2013 Macbook air when i travel with it to the university?
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For me, just let it sleep.
Anyway here's the latest thread about sleep vs shutdown.
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1626921/
Anyway here's the latest thread about sleep vs shutdown.
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1626921/
i ride my bike about 25 miles round trip to and from work. i have been doing this with my 2009 macbook on sleep for years and it still runs fine.
20 hours of sleep or turned off?
Thanks guys. One more thing: in the past few days, since i bought my MBA, i've left it in sleep mode, always. However, i work during the day which means that i only go to my MBA when i get home, late in the afternoon, and i stop working with it late at night, resuming my work the next afternoon, leaving at sleep mode for about 20 hours. During that time, should it be turned off, or should i continue to leave it in sleep mode? This routine should continue till mid september. thanks in advance
Thanks guys. One more thing: in the past few days, since i bought my MBA, i've left it in sleep mode, always. However, i work during the day which means that i only go to my MBA when i get home, late in the afternoon, and i stop working with it late at night, resuming my work the next afternoon, leaving at sleep mode for about 20 hours. During that time, should it be turned off, or should i continue to leave it in sleep mode? This routine should continue till mid september. thanks in advance
Could you shed some light as to why this is a concern? maybe we could put your mind to ease better than just saying "yeah its fine let it sleep" if we knew your reasoning behind asking this question, because I find it a bit odd of a question.
I just ask these questions because this is my first MB, and i just want to be extra carefull with it xD
OK, well, putting it to sleep is basically the same as shutting it down, only a small amount of battery power is used to keep the system state alive in the ram, but everything else, powers off, when it starts to run out of battery power it will dump the ram data to the hard drive and go into deep sleep.
So you really have nothing to worry about as far as traveling with it sleeping.
yup. at idle with the display on the air draws about 10 times the wattage it does when it's asleep... and sleep only draws about 3 times the amount of wattage as it does when it's turned off.
The flip side to this question is how will Find My Mac find it unless it's connected to a previously joined (i.e. trusted) network? Granted, the university may have a campus wide wireless network that it may hop on but more than likely it would end up on a random network.
I had my Macbook Pro 2010 13" for 3 years, and I must've turned it off less than 50 times.
Don't worry about turning it off, makes little difference in the long run.
Don't worry about turning it off, makes little difference in the long run.
This what I do.. Open Lid do work.. close lid put in book bag get on motorcycle unpack open lid do work close lid rinse and repeat
When I get to uni in a few days and have to travel with my lappy (I named my laptop lappy :$) I will just travel with it while its in sleep mode 
I'm not used to just shutting the MacBook Air "lid" and walking away (coming from a PC
Sleep mode is great in Macs for short term travel.
Same here as this is my first laptop lol. But i've already gotten into the habit of shutting the "lid" and carrying on with my tasks lol...i find it quite fun
haha
Same here as this is my first laptop lol. But i've already gotten into the habit of shutting the "lid" and carrying on with my tasks lol...i find it quite fun
Makes quite a statement when someone shuts a MacBook lid. Feels very unique, IMHO, like a period at the end of a sentence.
(I think this was something Microsoft tried to accomplish with the "clicking" effect of the kickstand in the MS Surface. They highlighted this several times when it was released)
Makes quite a statement when someone shuts a MacBook lid. Feels very unique, IMHO, like a period at the end of a sentence.
(I think this was something Microsoft tried to accomplish with the "clicking" effect of the kickstand in the MS Surface. They highlighted this several times when it was released)
I've never played around with any other laptop so I can't say anything but it is just an elegant piece of machinery and leaves you expressionless sometimes haha
I'm not used to just shutting the MacBook Air "lid" and walking away (coming from a PC
I dunno where you folks been, but that precisely what I did with my 10 years old Sony.
lol, this is my very own first computer
did have another one but the whole family used it and it was a PC lol