can the folks on the list that utilize the sleep functionality tell me why using sleep is critical for them? i'm *not* at all judging the use of those who use the sleep function - i just really don't understand it, or rather, using it on desktop machines. now, on my ibook? use it several times a day. works flawlessly. if it didn't, i'd be very annoyed. but from my point of view, using sleep on a desktop is not critical or convenient as it might be for a laptop. my cube stays on 24x7 aside from silly apple updates that require it to reboot (quicktime 6.1 required a restart!). another point of reference - gf2mx, small heatsink, no fan. --alan On Wednesday, January 15, 2003, at 07:03 AM, blah blah wrote: > sleep problems.