Leaving Mac On -- Advantages / Disadvantages
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From: Jolly Roger on 16 Feb 2010 15:57 In article <hleupj$po0$1(a)news.albasani.net>, Jason Bourne <jb(a)spy.net> wrote: > Davoud wrote: > > TaliesinSoft wrote: > > > >> Except when I have my MacBook Pro away from home I leave it > >> continuously on, having the display go to sleep after five minutes of > >> inactivity. Leaving it on during the night is so that the nightly > >> maintenance routines and my scheduled backups will run. What I'd be > >> interested in knowing is what disadvantages are there to leaving my > >> computer on in this manner. > > > > The disadvantage is that for each computer left on overnight that's a > > little more energy wasted, a little more CO2 pumped into the > > atmosphere... > > > > Not trying to send anyone on a guilt trip here; if one has a reason for > > leaving a computer on 24/7, one should follow one's own preferences. At > > the same time, in order to make an informed decision one should be > > aware that if one is "on the grid" the consequences reach beyond one's > > own home. > > You must be one of those silly people who believes that what we do has > any material effect on global temperature? "Global warming" is > discredited junk science espoused primarily by politically correct > knee-jerk liberals and one-world socialists... That whole stupid debate simply doesn't matter. You'd have to be a complete idiot to argue that energy waste and pollution are good for anyone. Anything we do to conserve energy and move away from fossil fuels to green technology and better practices will benefit us and the planet immensely. -- Send responses to the relevant news group rather than email to me. E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my very hungry SPAM filter. Due to Google's refusal to prevent spammers from posting messages through their servers, I often ignore posts from Google Groups. Use a real news client if you want me to see your posts. JR
From: Paul Magnussen on 16 Feb 2010 18:05 Jason Bourne wrote: > "Global warming" is > discredited junk science espoused primarily by politically correct > knee-jerk liberals and one-world socialists... Can you say "rationalization"? I knew you could! Paul Magnussen
From: Jason Bourne on 16 Feb 2010 18:09 Michelle Steiner wrote: > In article <hleupj$po0$1(a)news.albasani.net>, Jason Bourne <jb(a)spy.net> > wrote: > >> "Global warming" is discredited junk science espoused primarily by >> politically correct knee-jerk liberals and one-world socialists... > > Global climate change is real, despite the efforts of Big Business, > right-wing nutcases, and religious whackoes (There's an overlap among > these, especially between the latter two) to try to discredit it. > Global warming and global cooling is cyclical has been going on for eons. We have hothouse millenniums and ice age millenniums. It's the natural order-- natural phenomena and what we do here has precious little to do with it... especially whether you leave your Mac in sleep mode over night or turn it off.
From: Nick Naym on 16 Feb 2010 21:22 In article 7tvontF194U1(a)mid.individual.net, TaliesinSoft at taliesinsoft(a)me.com wrote on 2/16/10 9:34 AM: > Except when I have my MacBook Pro away from home I leave it > continuously on, having the display go to sleep after five minutes of > inactivity. Leaving it on during the night is so that the nightly > maintenance routines and my scheduled backups will run. What I'd be > interested in knowing is what disadvantages are there to leaving my > computer on in this manner. There seems to be two schools of thought: One, which takes the position that leaving the machine on 24X7 shortens its life due to the wear & tear of constant operation; the other, which believes that the wear & tear of constant operation is minimal compared to the cumulative stress caused by repeated, daily powering up and shutting down. I've always tended to agree with the latter (ever notice that light bulbs tend to fail more often during the electrical surge that occurs when you flip the switch, rather that while they're running constantly in steady state?). The optimum likely is somewhere in between, depending on how often you turn the machine on & off. Everyone has their own prescription, and mine is to leave the machine running (with scheduled sleep periods every night) unless I expect not to be using it for an entire day or more. -- iMac (24", 2.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 2GB RAM, 320 GB HDD) � OS X (10.5.8)
From: Nick Naym on 16 Feb 2010 21:38
In article hleupj$po0$1(a)news.albasani.net, Jason Bourne at jb(a)spy.net wrote on 2/16/10 3:22 PM: > Davoud wrote: >> TaliesinSoft wrote: >> >>> Except when I have my MacBook Pro away from home I leave it >>> continuously on, having the display go to sleep after five minutes of >>> inactivity. Leaving it on during the night is so that the nightly >>> maintenance routines and my scheduled backups will run. What I'd be >>> interested in knowing is what disadvantages are there to leaving my >>> computer on in this manner. >> >> The disadvantage is that for each computer left on overnight that's a >> little more energy wasted, a little more CO2 pumped into the >> atmosphere... >> >> Not trying to send anyone on a guilt trip here; if one has a reason for >> leaving a computer on 24/7, one should follow one's own preferences. At >> the same time, in order to make an informed decision one should be >> aware that if one is "on the grid" the consequences reach beyond one's >> own home. >> >> Davoud >> > > You must be one of those silly people who believes that what we do has > any material effect on global temperature? "Global warming" is > discredited junk science espoused primarily by politically correct > knee-jerk liberals and one-world socialists... And you earned your PhD in Climatology where? -- iMac (24", 2.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 2GB RAM, 320 GB HDD) � OS X (10.5.8) |