The pros and cons of shutting down, sleeping, and booting the Mac when not in use

When your Mac computer doesn't need to be used for the time being, will you turn it off, or sleep, or just keep on running?

What are the pros and cons of various options, let's analyze each one.

　　Let the Mac go to sleep:

For most Mac users, sleep tends to be more biased, because sleep can easily and quickly restore the work process, and sleep is more capable of maintaining hardware than powering on. And when you wake up the Mac from sleep, any previous programs, work processes, windows are almost instantaneous into the working state, there is no delay. Sleep is the best choice for users who want to quickly recover their computer's working status.

Advantages: Fast Recovery of previous worker process status, and sleep and wake-up can be set timed or even remotely controlled.

Disadvantage: Consume a small amount of electrical energy; sleep and wake not clear system cache and temporary files; system updates and partial software updates need to be restarted, and the updates will not complete without restarting the system, and the performance is best on Macs with 4GB or greater memory.

If you need to use a Mac every day and get your Mac into sleep before you go to bed at night, remember to reboot the system when you update the software. Oh, you can also show off to your friends that your Mac hasn't been restarted for several 10 days!

Get the Mac off the computer:

There are many users who are not going to turn off the computer if they are not using a Mac for a long time. After all, the shutdown needs to quit all the programs and Windows, after the reboot of all the need to open again, it takes a relatively long time. Although the lion system has the ability to open windows before automatic recovery, it is worse to tell the truth than waking directly from sleep:

Advantages: The most energy saving, the most maintenance of hardware, System cache memory file cache, etc. can be cleaned by reboot, reboot can let important system update or software installation.

Disadvantage: Reboot takes a long time, reopen the work window trouble.

Let the Mac shutdown apply to the extreme desire to save power, or expect to protect the hardware to the best friends can choose to turn off the Mac when not in use. The other thing is that if you don't use a Mac for a few days or more, it's better to turn off the computer.

Keep the Mac running at all time:

It is also a way to keep the Mac running, but it is possible that only the server has a similar need. The pros and cons of this choice are very extreme. From the point of view, you can use the Mac at any time you do not need to restore anything, you can arrange the late night for all download upload, maintenance backup operations, the bad side is the cost of electricity and component life loss.

Advantages: Use any program without waiting, when you can come back directly to the work before you put down the content, you can keep the server access to the night or other no task can do backup or download.

Disadvantage: Continue to charge, to all the MAC components, including fans, hard disk, CPU and so on are very expensive, because the running will also be hot.

If your machine is a server or Media center that takes a long time to be accessed, keep it open. But most users really do not have to keep the boot running state, let the Mac rest, she can serve you longer.

For most ordinary Mac users, the basic can be divided into [daily shutdown] and [daily sleep] Two camps, you belong to that camp?