I put my Cube to sleep each night before going to bed. It stops the hard drive from spinning and kills the monitor feed and I turn the monitor off.. In the morning I hit the space bar and all is back up. No problem. I would miss it if it didn't work flawlessly. k On Wednesday, January 15, 2003, at 09:44 PM, a l a n t h o m p s o n wrote: > 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