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Originally Posted by Paul
for laptops I would HIGHLY recommend sleeping the computer it puts MUCH less strain on the internal components that a boot-up process does....
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i think the strain from bootup is exaggerated by a lot of people. the machines were intended to be turned on after all. a good reason to keep the computer on, if you need one, is the background tasks that get run at odd times in the morning (cron jobs). failure to run them, iirc, can leave some pretty fat files on your drive.
i keep mine on unless i update the kernel, switch between osx and gnu/linux (a rare occassion, as i tend to stay on the gnu/linux side), or if i kp.