This thread has been about the hardware.
This is kind of a vague thought. But don't good things happen in terms
of hard drive and OS X housekeeping when one turns off the Mac and
boots it up again? Shouldn't this be a regular weekly or monthly
routine? At the very least, an overly long startup time could indicate
that something is acting up that you'd never know about otherwise.
Al Poulin
On Sep 18, 2005, at 3:32 PM, iMac List wrote:
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From: Kari Rasmason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Is sleeping the mac all the time dangerous?
Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 23:03:50 -0700
I don't know about Tiger, isn't there a setting in the energy control
panel to put the display to sleep? I have a 400MHz DV iMac that doesn't
put out heat when it's in sleep mode and I'm running 10.3.9 with an
80GB Maxtor 7200rpm and 640MB RAM.
Kari
On Sep 17, 2005, at 9:41 AM, Andrew Conachey wrote:
Hi all, I have a 400 MHz Blueberry iMac that I upgraded with 512 megs
RAM and a 40GB 7200RPM Seagate HDD. I'm running OS X 10.4.2. Since
I'm constantly using this computer on and off for school, I like to
put it to sleep. But I notice that even though the power light is
blinking amber, the monitior still puts off a lot of heat, and that
tells me that the monitor is not really turned off. What I was
wondering was, since this computer has no fans and since I have
installed a hard drive that generates more heat than the stock one
did, if I never turn it off and only put it to sleep, will I be
setting myself up for failure because of overheating? Also, since
sleep doesn't seem to kill the power to the monitor, could I be making
my monitor fail sooner? I know this is an unusual question, but I'm
just curious.
thanks
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