like the others: sleep, except for s/ware installs with my TiPB.
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Originally Posted by undertaker
Also I want to mention, that my parents has a 400 Mhz Powermac G4 Giga Eithernet. They had always put it to sleep before going to bed. But, when I had shut it down for a night and started it up the next day, all my family noticed that it was alot faster then being in sleep.
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undertaker Do you mean that the startup procedure (boot time) was quicker after a shut down, or that the computer generally ran faster after a shut down as opposed to a sleep?
B/c a shutdown will clear the cache etc and generally clean up a lot of junk that accumulates which can eat away at your RAM, thus slowing the speed of your computer. I don't think sleep will eradicate this stuff, so I can understand your folks thinking that their computer got a bit "zippier" after a shut down and restart procedure, since they essentially got a clean slab of RAM to play with from scratch.
(Did that make sense?)