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<blockquote data-quote="milessthomas" data-source="post: 527644" data-attributes="member: 27943"><p>No... its not a bad idea to shut down your mac, sometimes shutting down when your not using the computer can extend the hardwares life. But I've never had any problem letting my mini stay on for extended periods of time.</p><p></p><p>The best way to reboot or shutdown your mac is to go to the apple menu and select shut down or restart, this way you stop the system processes the safe way. But sometimes your mac may freeze up and you have to do a hard shutdown by pressing and holding the power button, if its not necessary to hard shutdown your mac I would suggest going through the shut down menu.</p><p></p><p>No, restarting your computer won't "automatically" mess it up. But you can see longterm effects if you continuously shut down your computer by forcing it to shutdown with a hard shutoff, but if you follow safe procedure I doubt that you will have any issues.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="milessthomas, post: 527644, member: 27943"] No... its not a bad idea to shut down your mac, sometimes shutting down when your not using the computer can extend the hardwares life. But I've never had any problem letting my mini stay on for extended periods of time. The best way to reboot or shutdown your mac is to go to the apple menu and select shut down or restart, this way you stop the system processes the safe way. But sometimes your mac may freeze up and you have to do a hard shutdown by pressing and holding the power button, if its not necessary to hard shutdown your mac I would suggest going through the shut down menu. No, restarting your computer won't "automatically" mess it up. But you can see longterm effects if you continuously shut down your computer by forcing it to shutdown with a hard shutoff, but if you follow safe procedure I doubt that you will have any issues. [/QUOTE]
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