Do you Shutdown your Macbook regularly?

I wanted to know if you Shutdown your Macbook regularly. I am speaking about when you will not be using for few hours.
Someone mentioned to me that he never shuts-down his ibook, for days, he just closes the lid and let i go to sleep. And i am told with the lid closed but the power on it is safe to travel in a car or take a flight with the laptop.
I know with the lid closed the battery draning should not be a issue, as power consumption is minimal. But is it ok for HD or other components... while travelling.

OOPS! One comment added to mine... UNIX regularly
performs maintenance and cleanup, typically at
pre-dawn hours. Now, I have read this somewhere. That
would make one want to leave the computer powered-up
all night. UNIX would even perform this while the
computer is in ''sleep'' mode.
Someone more knowledgeable than me can better comment
on this since I'm relying on something I read a while
back.
Yes and no. The OS does do some maintenance tasks in the wee hours, but it won't when the computer is sleeping. Sleep is like off, except it provides power to the RAM, so the RAM state is saved in actual RAM, and you get "instant" on. Indeed these days off is not so much off as it is a lower-power state than sleep.
And you don't have to leave it on all night every night. For the average user using a Mac as a personal computer, once a week is plenty, once a month is probably enough.

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