[P1] Power ON or OFF

[Barry Lyden]

No harm. But just like everything else in this world, there ARE 
various opinions. There are arguments for shutting down and arguments 
for leaving it up and running.

For the record, I leave mine on 24/7. I just close the lid and let it 
sleep between uses. I shutdown/reboot once every couple of weeks - 
sometimes. I've  left it on for a month or so many times (give or 
take a few days) without a reboot. I'm sure others have left theirs 
on even longer. OS X makes things even better. With UNIX at the heart 
of OS X, it's solid. At HP, or we never shutdown or reboot our UNIX 
servers in the lab unless they require it. And they usually don't 
require it.

It used to be - and still is in many cases - that you needed to 
reboot a windows box once or more a day just to free resources and 
get the OS back to a responsive state. Win NT improved that somewhat, 
and each successive version seems to get a little better, with Win XP 
being perhaps the best Microsoft has offered yet. In addition, some 
windows laptops have trouble sleeping and waking, docking and 
undocking, and frequent reboots are the only answer.

But macs don't typically suffer from the same OS memory management 
problems windows machines do. So go ahead, be brave! Leave that Mac 
running overnight!

Hope that helps,

Barry
iBook 700 running OS X 10.2.6




>Hello Everyone,
>
>Just a quick question.  Would it do any harm for me to leave my 
>iBook on 24/7? or should I shut it down at night?  Just migrated 
>from the PC world where I had to shut the thing off or it might blow 
>up.
>
>Thanks in advance,
>Chris
>
>
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