Sleep or Shutdown?

[Jon.Stewart87]

Hey everyone

just a quick 'newbie' question for you.

Do you sleep or shutdown at night - is this a matter of preference or is one actually smart to do for your iMac.

Recently I have been putting my iMac to sleep over night


thanks for your input.

 

[72930]

Sleep, it saves time and power of a start up, and only uses a tiny amount of power.

 

[Nabooly]

Sleep, its just a lot easier to just click the mouse and have the imac wake up. I only shut down when I know I wont be using it for a long while.

 

[RichardI]

I'll make it 3 for sleep.

Rich

 

[AppleFan360]

I usually shut down at night and use sleep mode during the day. Feels better to start fresh in the morning with a clean boot.

 

[Dartholomew]

I've always slept my PCs, so I'm doing the same with the Mac. Seems to be stable and fast for the most part.

 

[H$R]

I usually shut down and night and use sleep mode during the day. Feels better to start fresh in the morning with a clean boot.

Same for me and my MacBook.

I don't know exactly why, but I always did shutdowns with my Windows machines.
And boot time with the MB aren't that bad at all.


About power, I don't know about PC's, but other devices need "much" more power powering on/and off, instead staying in sleep/standby for some time.

 

[gehrbox]

Sleep

 

[smithlua]

I usually shut down and night and use sleep mode during the day. Feels better to start fresh in the morning with a clean boot.

Another one here too. Boot time is so fast, I don't mind waiting for start up at all.

 

[operator207]

For power consumption, check these sites out:

Apple's info on being Energy Star Compliant

Apple's info on power consumption though pretty sparse, as I would love to have MBP and MB info too. On the second link, there are some other links on the top right. I did not go through the energy attributes listing for any of them, but it might give you guys a better idea of how much you gain or lose by sleeping or turning off.

I use a MBP, I only shutdown/reboot for updates or if I am upgrading any hardware (ram, hdd etc) I sleep it when I move from location to location, in my laptop backpack. Essentially I sleep my laptop if I am not using it.

 

[rfruth]

Shut it down if not in use for prolonged periods of time

 

[I am Sampson]

I sleep as well. Though I sometimes find it's woken itself in the night and rather than sleeping again (it's set to sleep after 20 mins) is just sitting on with the monitor black, but clearly on. Very annoying, I wish I knew why.

 

[AppleFan360]

Another one here too. Boot time is so fast, I don't mind waiting for start up at all.

That is one of the things I really like about the Mac as compared to Windoze. Boot up is much quicker and not a big deal anymore.