Max King of the Wild said:
twesterm said:
Max King of the Wild said:
AndrewE said:
Who doesn't have their computer running 24/7? Or at least all during the day? Do you really shut your computer off everytime you step away from it?
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Joke?
Answer: A lot of people.
More descriptive: A lot of people conserving energy and reducing electric bills.
Yes, when I leave my house my computer turns off even if I'll be back in 30 minutes. When I go to sleep it goes off. When I go watch TV it usually goes off... unless its like a baseball game. Then in between innings I go and check out the computer. When I go play my video games it goes off... unless I am reading walkthroughs.
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Do you not set your computer to hibernate? Computers do have these new fangled power saving settings...
I have mine set to hibernate after 10 minutes or when I close the laptop but even then pressing a button brings it back on almost instantly while saving plenty of power.
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Why? Why not just shut down? I have no problem pushing a button and waiting to boot up.
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Couple of reasons, off the top of my head:
1. Depending on your machine, it can take as much power to boot your computer up than to leave it in sleep mode for an entire day. Unless you'll be not using your computer for a coupld of days, for the most part it is much more energy efficient to simply let it go into hibernate mode. Incidentally, if you are waiting in your car for 5 minutes or less, it uses less gas to leave the car running than to turn it off and start it back up.
2. Big one, when you shut your computer down, it puts the HDD in lock mode, the parts actually lock down. There is more wear and tear on your HDD and other moving parts, and you shorten the life of your hardware.
