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Shut Down or Sleep?

Shut Down or Sleep?

  • Shut Down

    Votes: 18 20.7%

  • Sleep

    Votes: 69 79.3%
  • Total voters
    87
  • Poll closed .
patrick0brien said:
-YunusEmre

What do you suggest we do?
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You do whatever you want. My objection is about the statements on how insignificant the power consumed is when in sleep mode. the power used may be insignificant for one person but when you sum up all of them it represents a very significant amount of power. I prefer powering down my mac for several reasons (power useage being one of them).

Let me give a little more background on this. Here in the SF Bay Area in the summer we may get rolling black outs due to shortage of power. On such days as well as other power saving advice, people are asked to unplug teven he unused chargers etc. Even the minute amount of power used by them can add up (considering there several of those per household).
 
CEAbiscuit said:
Make sure you have run all the SMC updates. Had the same problem on a Macbook till I ran them and now everything is fine. The spec doesn;t specify that that it cures this issue, but ever since I ran it, it wasn't an issue. Maybe just luck, but give it a whirl.
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I'm pretty sure I've had all the updates. This is the first time that it's happened so I thought it was wierd.
 
another one for Shut Down
no point keeping it on all that time when i'm not using it and it'll be cheaper on the electricity bills
 
YunusEmre said:
I prefer powering down my mac for several reasons (power useage being one of them).
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I agree. I get lots of power outages during the winter, its went out 7 - 8 times this month already. I really need to get myself a UPS, theres nothing worse working away then bam! sitting in total darkness.

UnitedRed said:
another one for Shut Down
no point keeping it on all that time when i'm not using it and it'll be cheaper on the electricity bills
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I agree as well, considering its not me that pays the electricity bills.

I can however see it an advantage for laptop people when they are not plugged into the mains, but for desktop computers its a waste of energy if you aren't going to use it for 6 - 10 hours.
 
I just use sleep unless I'm traveling, and then I like to shut it down because I don't like the idea of my laptop being moved while powered up. Otherwise, and for the desktop, I only shut down or restart for installations, or when my web browser starts running slowly (which happens every few days-week).
 
In the UK the government is talking about giving everyone free "smart plug" meters, they plug into the mains and then you plug your device into the meter.

Would be interesting to see how much juice household electronic devices, including laptops, consume.
 
combatcolin said:
In the UK the government is talking about giving everyone free "smart plug" meters, they plug into the mains and then you plug your device into the meter.
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I picked up a device like this and much to my wife's chagrin, I've been using it on a bout everything in the house. So far I've been able to reduce daily consumption at the house by ~15%, just by identifying the "vampires" in the house and unplugging/retiring them.

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Sleep, only restart when it tells me to.

A commo guy once told me that computers aren't ment to restart, maybe do it once a week. He says that start up is hard on a computer and doing it multiple times can hurt it. Maybe thats why my dell sucked...had to restart it all the time.
 
If you switch all your light bulbs to low energy, then you in effect have a big wodge of electricity you have saved.

You could use some of that saved powered to keep your computer on sleep/standby without feeling guilty over the environment.
 
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