A friend of mine had two computers at home. He left them on 24/7. He gave me the lecture about the hard drives and switches... bla.. bla.. bla. His computer needs to stay on, even if he is gone for the weekend.
Last year, when electricity rates went through the roof in Souther California, it bit him in the butt. Two 300 watts power supplies running 24/7 use a little bit a electricity. Now, he turns the off. At 12:26 PM 4/2/2002 -0900, you wrote: >restarting is harder on the hard drive I believe > >--Beth, Pseudo usenet cop >Merlin MTB, BikeE AT, RANS gliss, Trek R200, Kickbike >Owned by Kavik (Samoyed Boy) and Toklat (Keeshond Boy) >Anchorage, Alaska > > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Jerry Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 11:20 AM >Subject: Re: Which is better > > > > 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
