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Do you shut down your Macbook Pro when you are not using it?
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Or is it better to leave it on for weeks?
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I don't shut it down unless it's going to be asleep for an extended period of time- like 24+ hours.
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Generally I leave laptops, and for that matter desktops, in sleep mode all the time. Sleep them as soon as I can, and then leave them like that unless I'm going to be away for more than a week. Sleep mode is highly efficient these days, and booting a computer uses a lot of power for a short time, so it's just as efficient to do it that way.
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The new Mac Pro has up to 30 MB of cache inside the processor itself. That's more than the HD in my first Mac. Somehow I'm still running out of space.
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I typically don't shut down my notebook unless I have to. It's not harmful and you're back at work within seconds.
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I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it.
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My screensaver's password locked after 5 seconds. I think even when I go away for a week or more I just put the computer to sleep. Why would I waste time for it to boot up when I don't have to?
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If I'm not going to use it in the immediate future, say in the next couple of hours, I shut mine down. But it's not my only Mac-I use my iMac more. Still, start up time on any MBP isn't that long, so it's not like you'll be waiting for a long time to use it if you have shut it down.
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Apple's official line is to just use sleep unless you're planning on not using it for 2 weeks or more. IMO, it doesn't really matter.
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Originally Posted by OreoCookie
I typically don't shut down my notebook unless I have to. It's not harmful and you're back at work within seconds.
Same here. My portable Macs have gone several weeks asleep several times, probably even over a month on a few occasions. Never done any harm.
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Even with 4 GB of RAM, the page-outs occasionally start creeping up--that's about the only reason I'll do a restart. Or if something is getting wonky, beachballing or stuff like that. Just go get a coffee and the restart's up and running.
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Join Date: Mar 2004
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I don't shut down MBP or MP unless I will be gone for more than a day or two. However I will restart the MBP if I want to be sure my limited 3 GB RAM is fully available to an app like Aperture.
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If I'm in transit and won't be using the machine, I'll shut it down to flush the filevault keys from RAM. Otherwise I never shut it down unless I don't plan on using it for a day or more.
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Join Date: Jan 2001
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It's incredibly rare for me to shut down my MBP. A reboot only occurs if I get a system update that requires it. Otherwise, it just says sleeping.
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I have an iMac that I leave on all the time but the battery life seems to suffer on my MacBook Pro if it is not switched off and restarted regularly. From a fresh boot the battery lasts around 4 hours but if I leave it to sleep for a couple of days the fully charged battery lasts only 2 or 2.5 hours. I have never worked out why, my old power has never suffered from this problem. Probably something not quite right somewhere that a reinstall might cure, I have tried everything else.
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Join Date: Jun 2001
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I use sleep except maybe once a year when off for a long vacation. I only restart after an update that requires one. This is for a desktop and a MBPro.
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Take a guess what I do with my laptops...
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Avoid running software update?
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Originally Posted by The Final Dakar
Avoid running software update?
The computer was always useful so I never bothered. It was running 10.4.7, but never slowed down enough where it needed to be restarted so I only ran software updates that didn't require a restart. I used the machine daily for 5 years until I got my MBP last summer.
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I have left my MacBook on or asleep basically constantly for 5 years, with no ill effects that I am aware of. There might be a bit more battery wear, I suppose, but whether or not you'd come out ahead depends on how much power it takes to boot compared to how much power would have been used while asleep.
At the University I work at I've had to order a couple of new batteries because a professor leaves their MBP asleep for a month over winter break, draining the battery completely, and then it will no longer take a charge. If you drain a Lithium Ion battery completely, and then leave it sit that way for a while, it will self discharge to a point where it will no longer recharge.
So the 2 week rule is a good rule of thumb.
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