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<blockquote data-quote="technologist" data-source="post: 1187399" data-attributes="member: 4134"><p>All of which are good reasons for not shutting it down.</p><p></p><p>Starting a Mac up requires it to load everything from a cold state. Your hard disk has to spin up and spend a minute or so doing heavy read operations. Everything goes from dead cold to heavy activity in the blink of an eye.</p><p></p><p>Now, sixty seconds of extra strain a couple of times a day is not going to do much damage, but still, why bother? After all, less wear tends to be better than more wear.Not correct. When your Mac is asleep, the HD stops. Even when it's awake and idle, your HD will stop if you have that option set in the Energy Saver pane (and you probably should.)This was true back when Apple used fluorescent backlights, but it's not true of current Macs with LED backlights. Besides, the backlight goes off when the system is asleep, anyway.</p><p></p><p>It's not so much that modern Macs are not designed to be switched off; instead, modern Macs <em>are</em> designed to be left on (or asleep) whenever they're not in use. You can shut them off if you like, but there is no reason to do so unless you're expecting a power failure, or storing it for extended periods.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="technologist, post: 1187399, member: 4134"] All of which are good reasons for not shutting it down. Starting a Mac up requires it to load everything from a cold state. Your hard disk has to spin up and spend a minute or so doing heavy read operations. Everything goes from dead cold to heavy activity in the blink of an eye. Now, sixty seconds of extra strain a couple of times a day is not going to do much damage, but still, why bother? After all, less wear tends to be better than more wear.Not correct. When your Mac is asleep, the HD stops. Even when it's awake and idle, your HD will stop if you have that option set in the Energy Saver pane (and you probably should.)This was true back when Apple used fluorescent backlights, but it's not true of current Macs with LED backlights. Besides, the backlight goes off when the system is asleep, anyway. It's not so much that modern Macs are not designed to be switched off; instead, modern Macs [i]are[/i] designed to be left on (or asleep) whenever they're not in use. You can shut them off if you like, but there is no reason to do so unless you're expecting a power failure, or storing it for extended periods. [/QUOTE]
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