Little survey to all notebook/netbook users (PC and ultrabook aren’t necessary but welcome), how often do you turn off your laptop?
My case: I use my laptop twice a day, in morning to 3pm and night from 6pm to fall down. There’s 3 hours gap there for me and device to rest. My current way is always turn it off so I turn on the device twice a day. However, I think this maybe wrong lately. So I want to know how about you and your use case.
I virtually never shut-down any machine. It’s always sleep or hibernate.
For laptop case I’m wondering if I should let it plugged forever when it’s on standby mode. But I read somewhere the number of turning on laptop can give more load to your hardware.
Especially because I’m using Windows I always turn everything off.
Never ever used Standby. And Hibernate well… maybe is super special cases - not happened yet.
Under windows I’ve never ever had any problems with sleep nor hibernate.
Mac’s sleep mode is beautiful. I tap a key and my computer is immediately “awake” and ready to use…
I probably restart once a month.
well its not about problems but for windows, rebooting / shutting down and later on is like taking a shower - everything is nice and clean again and smoooth
especially with windows xp, rebooting and occasional format C: were a necessity
Mine is asleep half the day, but turned off during the night.
It’s green to switch off, so I do.
That is an awesome mindset. Rebooting five times per lecture is just not an option, when taking physical notes. To sleep with it!
Hibernate consumes less energy than off…since it’s off when it’s hibernated.
My laptop doesn’t wake up from hibernate anyway…
And my battery is dead…
I should write a C&W song 
I’m pretty sure nothing consumes less energy than Off.
I used to use hybrid sleep on my PC but since getting a SSD, a boot takes about the same amount of time as waking from hibernate (it takes Windows freakin forever to become responsive once it shows the lock screen) and I’m not writing out 9 gigs worth of data every time. So I lose the immediate resume of suspend, but it’s not much. With the laptop it’s just about convenience, so I just close the lid then let it go from sleep to hibernate.
Don’t hibernate cause fragment more? because it always writes a huge file to disk when performed.
hiberfile.sys doesn’t get deleted, so it can be defragged like any other file.
I fail to see the actual reason for asking the question. What exactly do you want to achieve? To know if your ‘switching off practices’ are the same as others or are you for example worrying about unnecessary waste of electricity? Or perhaps its more about extending the lifespan of the laptop?
@sproingie: for most people “off” is not equal to zero consumption. Hibernate is equivalent to off in consumption, but when you restart (as it takes less time to get started) you’re effectively wasting less.
But seriously, it’s about certain that if you want to reduce electric consumption this is probably one of the last places you want to look.
First and third. Take this light, just discuss.