Putting G5 to sleep...

I have heard from a few different people that letting my computer go to sleep is not good for it. Was someone just screwin' with me?

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Hi,
"not good for it": That is not true.
Sleep mode is better than shut-down + cold boot.
You may have heard stories about some problems that appear when waking from sleep for example:
Well, the problem comes from another cause that has to be troubleshooted (external devices, periphericals, etc).
It is a mistake to put it on Power Management, just because it's the one that is able to "discover" the one real problem.
Sleep mode is just a good way to save energy, and to save your Mac's components from much of the temperature fluctuations (when shutting down + rebooting),
and quickly resuming all your tasks at wake up.
HTH
Axl

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