At 9:54 PM -0400 10/12/2009, James Morgan wrote: >Is it a good idea to leave my mirror door G4's running all the time? >Or is it better to shut them down at night?
Macs and OS X are designed for sleep / wake cycles. As long as you don't have some hardware installed that prevents it, the best thing to do is to just sleep the machine. Or at least sleep the display(s). That reduces the power usage to a minimum, etc. A final shutdown at night and a boot the next day is no big deal tho, wrt wear'n'tear on the hardware. FWIW, all our Macs here sleep, except my Smurf and the ones I'm using as servers. Those stay awake, so as to keep their network connections live. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
