On Sep 15, 2004, at 1:45 PM, Laurent Daudelin wrote:
Just as a thought on this, I'm not in electronics that much but I've read a
few times that turning electronic equipment off is sometimes more stressful
when you turn them back on because the current that is suddenly applied to
the circuits. Don't ask me to explain or elaborate, it's just what I've read
and heard a few times...
FWIW this debate has raged on endlessly in many different places.
Some folks leave theirs on all the time, others unplug them when they aren't using them, others are somewhere in between.
There are arguments to be made for any. I think other than turning the screen off (not just dimmed but off) there are reasons to believe one over the other.
Personally I hate the length of time it takes to cold boot OS X. I leave mine sleeping, but often it is plugged into a 450 APC UPS overnight, so I'm not as concerned about the power flux problems. We lived in Florida for 5 years and just about everything except the microwave was on a UPS due to the major power storms.
TjL
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