Sleep or shutdown

[Cassady]

Hello all,

Since my old laptop used to take practically as long to wake from it's "sleep" as what it did starting up - I almost always shut down.

The MBP obviously does things a bit quicker - and I've developed the bad(?) habit of simply closing the screen on it - thereby invoking sleep mode.

Question: Is it not advisable to move the laptop around with it in sleep mode? It's only occurred to me now that the HD might still be active(?), which means popping it into the laptop bag and traveling from home to office with it like that us provably not a good thing?

Set it to reopen the last apps and rather shut down??

Many thanks!

 

[cpu.]

Sleep mode is for travelling and was "invented" with an office worker moving around in mind.

 

[albert123]

Hello all,

Since my old laptop used to take practically as long to wake from it's "sleep" as what it did starting up - I almost always shut down.

The MBP obviously does things a bit quicker - and I've developed the bad(?) habit of simply closing the screen on it - thereby invoking sleep mode.

Question: Is it not advisable to move the laptop around with it in sleep mode? It's only occurred to me now that the HD might still be active(?), which means popping it into the laptop bag and traveling from home to office with it like that us provably not a good thing?

Set it to reopen the last apps and rather shut down??

Many thanks!

give Hybernate a try. switches off completely but still comes back to where you left it last time.

 

[bwana]

give Hybernate a try. switches off completely but still comes back to where you left it last time.

Hibernate, aka safe sleep in mac parlance, really isn't necessary - in fact it could be dangerous because the disk could still be spinning, for longer, possibly while you're packing it away.

Personally I rarely restart my MBP.

 

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Is it not advisable to move the laptop around with it in sleep mode? It's only occurred to me now that the HD might still be active(?), which means popping it into the laptop bag and traveling from home to office with it like that us provably not a good thing?

No problem just closing the lid. That's what sleep is for on a MacBook is for, unlike most PCs. If you want to be sure that everything has stopped, just wait a few seconds until the LED starts "breathing", and you will be quite safe.

 

[Cassady]

Thanks all...

Good to know!