On 14 Feb 2004, at 02:32, Roddy Graham wrote:



Incidentally, why shut down at night? Many people leave Macs running X
on for weeks and months, sleeping when not needed.


It's wasteful of electricity, and adds to the climate-change problem humans have started, to leave electronic devices on standby. Switch off, unplug, save the biosphere!



I agree wholeheartedly with desktops - but current consumption with laptops is somewhat outweighed by so much other carbon fossil consumption.


Stuart


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