Keep the powerbook on all the time

I keep my powerbook on all th time (which means I don't even put it to sleep ) essentially using it as a desktop. A friend of mine told me that this behaviour is bad for the hard drive as notebook hardrives are designed differently than those of desktops. Is there any truth to this. Would it be advisable to turn of the machine or make it go to sleep every day when I am not using it. I have disconnected the battery so that is not an issue.

Making the machine sleep is not going to preserve things in any way. Your friend is wrong about this being bad for the hard drive. When the disk is not being accessed it should not be spinning anyway. You can ensure this by checking "Put hard disk to sleep when possible" in the energy saver system preferences. The only other thing to be even slightly concerned about is the display. You may wish to choose to have the display turn off after being inactive for a while, but even this isn't a huge deal.

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Tamarizz wrote:
New Mac user here, so I was wondering if there's a problem if I keep my MBP plugged all the time.
No. I do that most of the time. Perhaps monthly I discharge it to the 40% level to keep the battery happy. Do not discharge the battery completely. If you are forced to use only battery power and you see the battery is low warning terminate your session or plug into AC if you can.
Here are Apple articles with official battery usage guidelines:
http://www.apple.com/support/macbookpro/batteries_power/
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