I shut it off every night most of the time for pretty much no reason. I mean it sleeps after 3 hours anyway. Habits and stuff. Maybe I don’t want my computer doing stuff it shouldn’t be doing after hours. You know how computers love to party.
At work, we have a policy to never shutdown or sleep them because of overnight patches and such. We just restart if there are issues.
I turn it off. As ButtStallion and sYnCroSis mentioned: It’s common sense to shut it down. It doesn’t need to use power if I’m not using it. I don’t leave my TV and lights on while I’m sleeping so why should I leave computer.
I shut it off every night most of the time for pretty much no reason. I mean it sleeps after 3 hours anyway. Habits and stuff. Maybe I don’t want my computer doing stuff it shouldn’t be doing after hours. You know how computers love to party.
At work, we have a policy to never shutdown or sleep them because of overnight patches and such. We just restart if there are issues.
In regards to computers doing things on their own over night, I don’t worry because none of my devices are running Windows overnight.
I turn it off. As ButtStallion and sYnCroSis mentioned: It’s common sense to shut it down. It doesn’t need to use power if I’m not using it. I don’t leave my TV and lights on while I’m sleeping so why should I leave computer.
My tv (monitors) turn themselves off. I don’t turn on lights period unless I dropped something tiny. I imagine you have a power bill? In which case turning off pcs makes literal cents .
When my son lived here, he rarely had any lights on, or anything else in his room, but his computers. He never shut them down, just let them go into sleep mode when he wasn’t using them.
When he moved out, my power bill went down by almost $70 per month.
People can say what they want, and believe what they read, but that is a fact that I witnessed.
As for my own computer, I personally shut it down if I’m not using it, for no other reason than what Zmajuga said. Its just habit, if I leave a room, I turn off things I’m not using.
gord0 Yes I agree with that, but I also like to be respectful about the power, my electric, water and heat are all included in my rent and if my landlords were dicks I would not care but the truth of the matter is they are very good people that I respect immensely so I try not to cost them much money, that is why I pay them a little extra in the late spring through fall for air conditioning every month. Also why have all that wear and tear on my components?
gord0 Yes I agree with that, but I also like to be respectful about the power, my electric, water and heat are all included in my rent and if my landlords were dicks I would not care but the truth of the matter is they are very good people that I respect immensely so I try not to cost them much money, that is why I pay them a little extra in the late spring through fall for air conditioning every month. Also why have all that wear and tear on my components?
There really isn’t wear and tear if you have adequate cooling. They’re designed for constant use.