[G4] Sleep vs Shutdown

[Snow White]

When I was in 10.2 I had updated as far as I could - without 10.3 I ran 
pretty close to a year - say 8 or 10 months.  In OS 9 the system could 
not handle uptime like that and I found it better to shutdown at end of 
day.

As for the maintenance I run them from time to time from Terminal.


>> My personal experience is opposite what you have said. [...]
>
> This is not an issue of personal experience.
>
> "With equipment that is Energy Star compliant ...."

As for personal experience - I was reffering to what the OS was capable 
of, not energy compliance.  I think if you base your opinion on energy 
compliance specs then you probably haven't used your Mac much yet.  But 
  your perspective was interesting - 8 hours in sleep = about the energy 
of a boot up - didn't know that.

jj


On 6-Jun-05, at 9:26 PM, g4-request at listserver.themacintoshguy.com 
wrote:

> On 06/06/05, Snow White <jj4 at sympatico.ca> wrote:
>>
>> My personal experience is opposite what you have said.  In OS9 it was
>> better to Restart or Shutdown so the system could reset itself and the
>> Ram allocation.  In OSX (10.3 and 10.2) I have found that the system
>> works for a year at a time without Restarting or Shutdown.  In OSX I
>> highly recommend Sleep as a very viable option.
>
> How do you manage not to restart? You must never install any System 
> updates
> which, from my experience, always call for a restart. BTW, I never 
> sleep
> the computer or its HDs, just the display (which consumes the most
> electricity). This setup allows the system to always do the built-in
> maintenance tasks and minimizes shutdowns.
>
> Just my 2¢.