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Join Date: May 2004
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Do you shut down your computer or do you put your computer to sleep( hibernate) before you go to bed? I shut my powerbook down everynight before going to bed. Even though apple reccomends putting the computer to sleep.
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Sleep is not the same a windows hibernate. Sleep works, hibernate does not.
Just put your PB to sleep. Makes for quicker start-ups and is less stress on your HD. |
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: New York City
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for laptops I would HIGHLY recommend sleeping the computer it puts MUCH less strain on the internal components that a boot-up process does.... for desktops it depends on what you are doing with it... I usually keep my machines on 24/7 and reboot when needed... 1215/234215 (top .51875%) People really have got to stop thinking there is only one operating system, one economic system, one religion, and one business model. -EvilTwinSkippy (/.) |
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feeling my oats
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sleep my iMac...restart only with new updates
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I shot the sherrif.
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i don't think i've shut down an Apple laptop in over two years.
sleep. restart on updates. rinse, repeat. |
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Join Date: May 2004
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And yes, it's a BIG tower, but it's damn near silent. I have all the case fans running off a 5v line. The fan over my processor's heatsink only runs at 1400RPM, which I can't hear. The power supply I can hear, but it's not loud at all. I replaced the fan on my ATi Radeon 9000 Pro with a passive heatsink/heatpipe setup. The only noise that bothers me is the sound from the hard drive, but I am about fix that. . . Overall it is much, much quieter then the iMac (CRT, rev.d) sitting beside it. That thing can get annoying. |
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Join Date: May 2004
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I put my old iMac to sleep every night, unless I forget to. In that case it stays on all night.
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Finally broke the seal
Join Date: May 2004
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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. |
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is not a kind of basket
Join Date: May 2004
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thuh Freak,
Neat, I never knew you ran Linux on your Mac. Which distro do you use? I ran YDL and Gentoo on a slot-loading iMac for a while... it was neat but the Gentoo install took forever on the little 350mhz iMac and YDL just felt to much like RedHat (which can be a good thing, but just not for me). Then I gave OpenDarwin a shot... then I killed the CRT. Long story short, I was impressed with Linux on PPC. |
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Join Date: May 2004
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Turned on, yes.
But each cycle of heating/cooling/heating puts thermal stress on every component and every junction in the system. Sleep mode keeps a trickle of electricity to the most critical components, and keeps them warmed a bit. Hence, less stress. I transport my laptop everywhere, and I think I reboot it about... never, except for updates. |
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Mr. Vieira
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Tennessee
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Like thegelding, I put mine to sleep. It only gets restarted with updates that require it. I never shut it down, really.
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On Pacific time
Join Date: May 2004
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I put my 12" PB to sleep.
I also have it perched on one of those white-plastic, tilted swivel-stands from the apple store, to keep air flowing underneath. I wouldn't be without it. I bought one of those laptop backpacks at the apple store, manufactured specifically for apple, for when I go traveling. It is incredibly well-made, as you might expect. I think it was around $200. (You get what you pay for.) It's wonderful, and would be perfect for airplane and train travel in Europe. |
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Join Date: May 2004
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thuh Freak,
Yah, I am using Gentoo myself on my x86 box right now. I have played around with many other x86 distros. . . Gentoo is not my number one in that respect, but it's up there. I am now in the market for a laptop, and I plan on getting an iBook. I sure hope AirPort-ex gets Linux support soon. But OSX seems like it can hold my interest until then. I can't wait till I get it, this will be my first mac with OSX. Right now I am stuck in OS 8.6, which is still a great OS IMO, well much better then OS9 anyway. I kinda wish Linux would get a little more backing on the PPC arch. |
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meh
Join Date: May 2004
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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. The G4 is running currently Jaguar( 10.2.8). I don't exactly get how sleep puts less stress on the HD. The HD still needs to spin up when awaken, from 0 RPM to what ever the HD speed is. So where is the stress relief when being awaken then in start up?
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Join Date: May 2004
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I put mine to sleep because: i) I always understood that Macs were designed to work this way and indeed the Mac sleep function always has worked well on my computer; ii) I really appreciate being able to work pretty much instantaneously on the computer and iii) OS X still has a horrendously long boot time, even in 10.3
Why would you do it any other way? Of course I do restart for updates, but that is pretty much it. When there's an eel in the lake that's as long as a snake that's a moray. |
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Join Date: May 2004
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Sleep, sleep and sleep. I never shut mine down. I have a dual 2 GHz G5, a dual 1 Ghz G4 and a 12" Powerbook and all of them are on (sleeping or awake) 24/7/365. Starting the computer from power down takes as much power as letting the Mac sleep for 8 hours, and sleeping isn't a shock to the system like cold starting is.
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I sleep my PowerBook, but shut down my G5.
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When there's an eel in the lake that's as long as a snake that's a moray. |
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If I'm doing something wrong, tell me. |
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Chicago
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Quaggo...I mean uhhh, undertaker can't count
Seriously though, 20 seconds is too fast. That unrealistically fast. |
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like the others: sleep, except for s/ware installs with my TiPB.
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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?) |
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meh
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I hope this make sense - of course I may have incorrectly read/intepreted your post - if I did so, then sincere apologies. |
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: San Diego
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How about going to sleep while logged in versus just logging out. Any differences (besides obviously not being logged in).
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BANNED
I am worthless beyond hope. Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Washington, DC
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I let my iBook's display go to sleep, but the system stays running 24/7. I just let OSX's overnight maintenance do its thing.
Those scripts won't run when it's asleep, correct? |
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Fro Productions(tm)
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Look at the time stamps—this thread is six months old! |
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