It depends. My understanding is that most recent laptops actually do a "shutdown", with no battery power being used when off, in "suspend" mode. All of the open apps and memory is cached to hard drive, and on "unsuspend", it reloads everything for you.
I often use suspend, and haven't noticed battery life being shortened noticably. If suspend is an "instant" restart, then I am totally wrong, but mine takes a minute after a long suspend. (Sony Vaio) As far as wear-and-tear, I would think they were the same (hard drive spin down and lock, spin up, memory checks, screen power down/power up) Of course, if suspend mode uses battery, then the battery life (long term rechargebility) might suffer, since you will need to recharge it more often. Making this up as I go, Jerry Johnson >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/02/02 02:59PM >>> I'm curious.... if I work on my laptop day after day.. is it better to close everything and shut down or simply do a suspend? I know suspendstill uses battery power but what is less wear and tear on my computer? ______________________________________________________________________ Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
