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To Sleep Or Not To Sleep?
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Agreed, if my powermac wasnt so noisy i would keep it on all the time, at the moment it stays on from when i wake up until i go to bed, that means it suptime is never more than about 14-15 hours.
krunch said:
Don't worry about prebindings. Basically, it's optimising your system so that applications open more quickly. When you install applications that have an installer (rather than drag and drop), you'll often see a progress optimising bar - part of this updating the prebindings.
Detailed information on prebinding
Yes, if you put your computer to sleep, it will also kill its internet connection and stop downloading. However if you are downloading something and leave your computer sitting, it won't go to sleep until it's finished (even if it usually does at the 15 minute mark)
I shut down my PB every night and every time I'm not using it, even if it's only for an hour. Also, when I'm not using my PB I keep it in a sleeve, so would me leaving it in sleep mode, drain my battery?
PaRaGoNViCtiM said:
I was just as paranoid as you when my PB was new (it was my first laptop, after all), but one day I decided to put my fears aside and give sleep a shot; and since then, I've never looked back. If the PB is sleeping unplugged it does drain battery, but at a really slow rate. To prove this, I left my PB sleeping unplugged one night, and 6:30 hours afterwards, a mere 2% had been consumed... at that rate, the battery would take roughly two weeks to be completely drained. If you think about it, 2% of the battery life is a very small price to pay to have your computer in working condition one second away all day... it's even MORE power efficient to keep it sleeping for a couple of hours than shutting it down and then having to reboot! So my advice is to take advantage of this great feature... after a couple of days, you wonder how you managed to live without it
Hey, thanks, your reply was very useful, and it's nice to know you were in the same situation! I will give sleep a try.Linkjeniero said:I was just as paranoid as you when my PB was new (it was my first laptop, after all), but one day I decided to put my fears aside and give sleep a shot; and since then, I've never looked back. If the PB is sleeping unplugged it does drain battery, but at a really slow rate. To prove this, I left my PB sleeping unplugged one night, and 6:30 hours afterwards, a mere 2% had been consumed... at that rate, the battery would take roughly two weeks to be completely drained. If you think about it, 2% of the battery life is a very small price to pay to have your computer in working condition one second away all day... it's even MORE power efficient to keep it sleeping for a couple of hours than shutting it down and then having to reboot! So my advice is to take advantage of this great feature... after a couple of days, you wonder how you managed to live without it
Thanks again!!
Putting it to sleep is the most convienient way to operate all macs, only shut down when you wont use it for a long time like a holiday etc...
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Mine is shutdown every evening...
and automatically rebooted every weekday @ 8... so when I wake up and come downstairs... my mac is allso up and running... no need to wait... all my commonly used progs are up and running, so when I arrive with my fresh cup of coffe I sit down and see what e-mail there is and I can start working...
I don't use sleep because I don't get up in the middle of the night to check something... so no need for it to be asleep... and as mentioned... whe have the same alarmclock... only I can decide to turn over for another 10min my G5 can't hahaha
and automatically rebooted every weekday @ 8... so when I wake up and come downstairs... my mac is allso up and running... no need to wait... all my commonly used progs are up and running, so when I arrive with my fresh cup of coffe I sit down and see what e-mail there is and I can start working...
I don't use sleep because I don't get up in the middle of the night to check something... so no need for it to be asleep... and as mentioned... whe have the same alarmclock... only I can decide to turn over for another 10min my G5 can't
hahaha
barneygumble said:Personnally i always turn my computers of. I have two at home and three at work that are on when i am there and i always shut them down. How much energy is wasted becasue people are too lazy to turn of or what it instanlty activated when they get there in the morning. I think i read that 5% of the energy use in the US is from compouters that have been left on all night. Imagine all the CO2 that would be saved if we turned them off edpecially in office buildings
This is most likely due to PCs and not Macs Abstract said, Mac's power virtually everything down when they sleep.
PCs on the other hand, don't sleep easily. You have to tell it to Hibernate, and it doesn't come out of that right away, so I'm assuming that most people wouldn't like that, so they simply leave their computer running all the time.
Which is why they take up so much power.
I have a question about cron tasks.
My computer is on, but asleep at 3 in the morning. Does this mean that the cron tasks won't run?
I've currently got about 13 days of uptime and I'm not noticing anything wrong with my computer, but I was just wondering.
I hate sleeping my PB because the sleep light keeps me awake, as well as the power cord light. I'm always looking for sweatshirts to put over them to go to sleep (I would unplug it, but I've forgotten to replug it in the morning sometimes). Ah well.
