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    Is it better to leave your laptop on sleep or to turn it off?

    Discussion in 'Alienware 14 and M14x' started by TechFanboy, Jul 4, 2011.

  1. TechFanboy

    TechFanboy Notebook Guru

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    Title says it all folks. Thanks in advance :)
     
    TechFanboy, Jul 4, 2011
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    vasvas Notebook Consultant

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    I think I never turned it off since I got it :D , TBH it doesn't make a huge difference to turn if off appart from saving a little bit of battery.

    I let mine sleep mainly because of boot time, love the fact that it turns on immediately.
     
    vasvas, Jul 4, 2011
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    niko2021 Notebook Evangelist

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    I don't mind letting it sleep. Though I shut it down when I done with it for the day. If it's anything like my hp, it'll hibernate by default if you let it sleep for a long time, so there's no worry. I do prefer to have a fresh start up after a shutdown though. Not many random processes and things like that.
     
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    Only shut my system down at night or if away from house for 5+ hours. Never heard of any major issues with leaving in sleep.
     
    jwolf7722, Jul 4, 2011
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    If you want to save the battery but want to resume back quickly, you can have it hibernating <- what is do is, when hibernate, your laptop copy the file necessary for the resume such as your opened program, to your Hard Drive while for the Sleep it copy to your RAM, but because of when the computer is shut down, everything in RAM is also erase. Hibernating use Hard Drive instead, and do the same thing like you shut down.

    Just that when you turn it back on, it will resume to where you left, and it is faster than the normal Shut down because it dont need to restart all of the startup item again, this way you will save on both time and battery.

    One down side for Hibernation is that one every 1-2 month you will have to do a file defragment, to keep your HDD healthy and run smoothly. It is like an option between Shut Down and Sleep.

    But if you are just leaving your computer for like 30mins - 1hr, then you dont have to use Hibernating because it is for something like you want to leave it like 2hrs - 8hrs.
     
    CGSDR, Jul 4, 2011
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    RioRyan Notebook Consultant

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    I dunno about you guys, but I had to set hibernate to "never" because if I left it sleeping long enough for it to call hibernate it wouldn't start back up properly.

    I leave it in sleep all the time, but I've noticed that sometimes when I open it, the screen doesn't turn on and it just runs but I can't do anything.

    Still conflicted over this.
     
    RioRyan, Jul 4, 2011
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