[P1] Sleep or Shutdown?

Donald Keenan dkeenan2 at nycap.rr.com
Tue May 27 20:00:23 PDT 2003


On Tuesday, May 27, 2003, at 09:48 PM, Mike Beede wrote:

>
> On Tuesday, May 27, 2003, at 15:22 US/Central, Joe Sporleder wrote:
>
>> Do y'all put your iBook to sleep or shut it down when moving it long 
>> distances?
>
> The only time my wife's iBook or my TiBook shut down is when necessary
> for an upgrade or when something is wedged (pretty rare now--more
> common with 10.1).  Sleeping all day shouldn't be a problem at all
> unless your battery is shot.  If it is, then you might have trouble
> waking up (because it actually died or something).
>
> 	Mike
>

Mike:
Do you use software to run the "chron" (cron ?) functions for OS X 
maintenance. I have my macs set to sleep after a few minutes of non-use 
and I've never dealt with this issue head on.
Donald



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