To Sleep or not to Sleep... help for a noob

Hi there,
New to macs and needed to know wether its better to put my new iMac intel to sleep or to log it off...
Hope you can help....

You have to look at other things too when considering whether to put to sleep or switch off.
Power Supply Issues
Do you live in a country which has a good, regular and reliable power supply. Which does not suffer, brown outs or black outs or power spikes.
If you do live in a country with a good supply then I would invest in a Surge protection Power strip, plug your Mac into that and then just put it to sleep.
The Weather
Do you live somewhere where storms are very frequent? If you do then you are probably used to pulling electrical equipment from the wall when a lightening storm is happening. So the same precaution should be done here.
Security and location
Would it be more secure to put switch the Mac off? For example is it's location going to present itself to anything liquid or which could otherwise damage the machine.
Remember putting a system to sleep, especially if you haven't logged out and then pulling it out from the wall will certainly do it damage.
Mark

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