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Message: <blockquote data-quote="altano" data-source="post: 60256">I was a long time PC user, but got an iBook last August (for school).  I absolutely love it.  It's a great product.But, is it just me or is most of the advice on these forums completely uninformed?  Everyone is telling you to put your computer to sleep with absolutely no reasoning to back it up.In fact, neither computers nor Unix were built to be put to sleep.  You shouldn't turn it off OR put it to sleep.  Just turn off your monitor and leave it.  If you don't want to foot the energy bill... well then, that's another story.Of course, restarting every once in a while will be good for performance.  Memory leaks among other things aren't going to get fixed by the operating system.It can't run those utilities if your computer is asleep.</blockquote>