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    How long do you keep your mac on?

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by CanadianDude, Apr 15, 2007.

  1. CanadianDude

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    Saw this in the Lenovo/IBM section, made me wonder what mac people do. I keep it on all the time, except when im transporting it.

    Does keeping it on for up to 2 weeks hurt it at all?
     
    CanadianDude, Apr 15, 2007
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  2. zadillo

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    I leave my Mac at work on all the time, although I have it set to go to sleep automatically at 8 PM and wake up again at 8 AM.

    -Zadillo
     
    zadillo, Apr 15, 2007
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    ive left mine on all the time, with the exception of software updates. even when i transport my macbook, its on sleep.
     
    aznkid, Apr 15, 2007
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    yeah, i kept mine on all of the time, even when transporting. i usually only restart my laptop around 1-2weeks (when it starts getting unstable probably high memmory usage), then put it to sleep when i don't use it anymore.

    oh and putting it to sleep does not hurt it at all. even the new windows vista is designed that way.
     
    wobble987, Apr 15, 2007
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  5. M@lew

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    I pretty much turn it off overnight unless it's doing something since I store it in my room and the white sleep light is so bright. Any other time it's on. :)
     
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    Generally I put it to sleep overnight.

    OS X is very good at staying on for long periods. The only thing I woudl worry about is certain apps eating up all the memory. Firefox is a fiend at doing that on Windows (try keeping a few windows open for a few days... it will use all your ram) and 1.5 was bad at eating ram on OS X also, but 2.0 is much better.

    Basically, if I leave it on, I close apps it's not using.
     
    hollownail, Apr 15, 2007
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    Almost never turn it off. Most nights I just close the lid and let it sleep but there are a lot of times when only the display goes to sleep if it's on AC. And it is pretty much always stable.
     
    cashmonee, Apr 15, 2007
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    I put it to sleep (or it falls asleep on its own if I forget to close the lid) when I'm not using it, I only restart when I want to boot to Windows to play a game really. And that's not that often.

    No adverse effects whatsoever.
     
    Starlight, Apr 15, 2007
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    It's on like almost all the time, but I usuallly restart every 3 days to a week.
     
    iwantamac, Apr 16, 2007
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    i never shut down unless i really need to, like extended transportation (road trip). and only restart when updates come along forcing an update.

    just basically have to keep and eye on programs that hog memeory, thats all.
    such as quitting safari instead of leaving it open, that thing is a resource hog, hopefully they fix that.
     
    RadcomTxx, Apr 16, 2007
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  11. zadillo

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    Personally I just use Firefox instead of Safari.
     
    zadillo, Apr 16, 2007
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