It's a laptop, so I close the lid and it goes into sleep mode. It's somewhere between hibernate and standby, I think; I haven't used Windows in many years and am not actually sure of the difference between the two..
In standby, the computer is still using power slowly to keep the contents of memory alive. In hibernate, the contents of memory are written to disk, and the machine is off.
Oops. I voted "turn it off", but I should've put "standby". I have a laptop, and at night I either shut it or run a little app that turns my music down slowly and sets it to standby at the end of a prescribed time period.
My only computer is a laptop. I usually leave it on overnight at least to keep chat programs running, and also often doing some sort of file sharing. However, my computer usually gets shutdown when I go from one place to another. This is mostly so I know I will have full battery life if I want it.
I leave everything on, but allow it to take certain power-saving actions.
My laptops mostly sleep after a while when they get bored (screen off, speed stepped down, and I forget, but some are able to turn off some of the circuits on the chip, and RAM). I'm not sure how exactly that compares to standby.
My work desktop stays on; it's a server. However, it turns off displays and hard drive after a while.
My older laptop has a flaky battery; at high load, it sometimes just fails to output enough power and the thing shuts down. Both laptops at low load figure out that they're running low on battery and thus they hibernate. And my desktop was off when I moved offices.
That's the only times I turn any computers off. I hit the off button once this year, when one of my computers (I forget which) got wedged.
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Date: 2009-05-21 06:40 pm (UTC)My laptops mostly sleep after a while when they get bored (screen off, speed stepped down, and I forget, but some are able to turn off some of the circuits on the chip, and RAM). I'm not sure how exactly that compares to standby.
My work desktop stays on; it's a server. However, it turns off displays and hard drive after a while.
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Date: 2009-05-21 06:43 pm (UTC)That's the only times I turn any computers off. I hit the off button once this year, when one of my computers (I forget which) got wedged.