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Laptops - Do you shut them off or put them in standby/sleep mode?

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SwiftWind

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I've been debating what I should do.

With Windows Laptops I've noticed that most people shut them off. However, most mac users I've seen put it in sleep mode. Maybe its just around this area.

What do you do? and why?
 
I have 2 roommates, one shuts his laptop off routinely at night/when its not going to be used for at least 2 or more hours and the other roommate leaves it on 24/7/365. Let's just say that the latter roommate has had NUMERIOUS parts replaced (motherboard/CPU/RAM/heatsinks/thermal disk(what Dell said.. shrug)) and the former has not. That's proof enough for me. Both laptops are Dell's of different model, is it possible the one laptop is just crappier than the other? Sure, I suppose. But the kind of heat damage it takes .. eek.
 
With hibernate being an option, nothing else should ever get used, except maybe restart once a month.

N00blets 😉
 
Out of hte dozen or so lappys I've had over the years, I have yet to have one that the sleep mode works properly each and every time. So I either shut it down or leave it on (while on the charger).
 
Originally posted by: dug777
With hibernate being an option, nothing else should ever get used, except maybe restart once a month.

N00blets 😉
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FTW. I always just hibernate. It's practically the same as turning it off (to the hardware) but the software boots up exactly like you left it!
 
Depends... my work laptop i usually put it in standby, in case I need to access it quickly to check something etc

Home laptop, i usually shut it down, cuz I can wait for it to boot up (nothing urgent)
 
On my Mac, I just shut the cover which sleeps it after 5 minutes.

On Windows, if I am going to leave it for more than an hour, I hibernatre it. If I don't know, I just shut it and it hibernates after 10 minutes.
 
standby works pretty well on the 11 laptops i've owned. On recent dual core laptops, it works even better, it ALWAYS comes back from standby within 3 seconds even if i have a few billion things open.
 
On some laptops, when bringing it back from standby, I've seen the autorun kick on again and jobs being redone again such as print jobs and what not. Anyone else?
 
I use all three. Just really depends on my mood, hibernate can be a bitch when you have tons of ****** running so sometimes I put it in standby. I shutdown the system when I don't need anything running or to continue running when I use it again.

I believe if I'm going on a plane, before going into the airport, I either put the laptop in standby or hibernate, long wait, hibernate otherwise standby (despite standby consuming little battery life). Just all depends. Standby is very stable on my IBM T42 and my built desktop systems, but standby on my sony vaio laptop and dell desktops, it's really a luck of the draw. I'd say 50% of the time on those systems, it will never come back which totally sucks.
 
Hibernate about 99% of the time, shutdown the rest. I've been using hibernate on my systems for years. Way back when I had my Abit BE6 actually.
 
Originally posted by: dug777
With hibernate being an option, nothing else should ever get used, except maybe restart once a month.

N00blets 😉
Click to expand...


lol, but windows is normally crying by the time I shut down. It can only handle so much abuse.
 
sleep during the day, off at night. my power supply makes a super-high pitch noise that alternates off an on in time to the flashing power LED when it is asleep. it makes it impossible for ME to sleep. 🙂 i have to unplug my external hard disk's power supply when not in use because it also makes a high-pitch noise that drives me bonkers.
 
I always hibernate. The only time I actually shutdown is when it's required for software or hardware change. Oh yeah -- Windows XP Pro.
 
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