I have a MAC OSX 10.6.8 Is it better to keep it in sleep mode when not in use or shutting down?

Mac OSX 10.6.8 Should I keep it in sleep mode when not in use to shut down?

My experience with electronic tends to revolve around thermo stress, and removing all power vs going to sleep tends to be more or less the same. Many components have power totally taken away, and others use so little power they cool off.
However, I found thermo stress occurs a lot more with discrete electronic components (like back in the '80s and our VAX-11/780's which had lot more discrete components) and less with integrated circuits. NOTE: I'm not talking about overheating components, just normal heating/cooling cycles.
All in all I would not worry about it. The OP (Grace 1) should use whatever method is most convent for her. And I would say if she is using a Macbook Air or the new Macbook Pro Retna display (or any other Mac with a solid state drive (SSD)), then booting from shutdown may not take all that long anyway.

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Is there any harm to the computer system to put it in sleep mode each time it is not in use as opposed to shutting the system down? I apologize if this is considered a silly question but curious to know if it causes any harm to the system apart from using up a small amount of hydro,
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Thanks for the reply.
That's what I thought but just thought I would throw out the question to confirm. Putting the Mac Pro in sleep mode certainly makes for much quicker startup although coming from a Windows Vista environment the Mac is certainly much faster at startup than my PC. I do use a UPS on all my systems and have it configured much the same as you.
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What it says in the title.
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kodemage wrote:
well, then recovery mode does not work. I've tried all the key combinations I've seen on line. Command+R, Command+Option+R, Command+Option+P+R, none of these work.
I don't believe there is anything we can do on a forum to help then, you need to take it into a AASP and have it professionaly diagnosed. If you don't know how to locate an AASP in your area you can begin by using Contact Apple for support and service
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There's a system management controller - or some such reset button
on or in the computer, it is a second cousin to the Power Management
Unit (PMU) found in G4 machines and somewhat related to the next
version found in the newer Intel Macs.
The chip, by whatever name, contains information essential to the
basics of power management and other stuff, and there are times
where that may be corrupted so resetting it may be helpful.
Depending on what computer model you have, the procedure to
reset the chip will vary. Within a processor series, it will vary...
So, to approach the reset correctly, one would need to know the
exact model and build the computer you have... Or close.
This chip has also been known as a CUDA or PMU, SMU, SMC,
and so on; as such the PowerPC based units often had one
series of power management chip with variants, and the Intel Mac
architecture has something similar yet different.
"Resetting Cuda/PMU on Power Mac G5, Power Mac G4, PM G3:"
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1939
If you have an iMac G5, the information would be different.
For Apple Portables, depending on architecture and series...
Resetting the System Management Controller (SMC) & PMU
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1411 (note PPC-PMU inside link)
Generally speaking, information for most Mac power reset chips
is listed here, in this page, with secondary links to information:
Resetting the power management chip in your Mac
http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/resetpmchip.html
{And if the hard disk drive is getting overly full, there are issues
and symptoms of sluggishness and irresponsiveness related
to that situation; you need plenty of free space for OS X to work.}
This may help. Depending on what model G5 you have, it really
could make a difference. At any rate, I'll always think it should've.
Good luck & happy computing!

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