Do you let your mac sleep?

keogh · 14 Jan 2008 at 10:37

Howdy,

Just curious to know how many of you let you mac sleep after a certain amount of time? If so:

1. What mac you got?
2. How long do you tell os x to wait til it puts the machine to sleep?

I always turned this off in Tiger, cos upon waking I would lose all my Windows shares, and I need those as they are my servers. I got around this with Sleepwatcher, but that was odd.

Well it would appear that Leopard has fixed this, and my shares stay present upon waking.. well they seem to at the moment!

The main reason I ask, is cos a lot of people told me that letting your windows pc sleep was a bit dodgy, and odd things would happen (thats if you where able to take it out of its sleep). So I'm hoping the same isnt true with Apple machines (although I doubt)!

So what do you do?

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TheMagicPirate · 14 Jan 2008 at 11:17

I turn my monitor off after a few mins and it only sleeps when I tell it to (via a keyboard shortcut)

It gets put to sleep pretty much whenever I leave my room, even for a cup of tea. I find just going along the dock, right click and quitting any programs I'm not using more more effective than a restart in windows. This coming from a recent windows abandoner

I have a 20" 2.4 iMac with leopard and 4GB ram.

fearby · 14 Jan 2008 at 11:27

Sleep

I tried to let my iMac sleep but it would result in a reboot on "awakening" - I think it is due to a stick of memory that is not quite right. :rolleyes:

hyper_piper45 · 14 Jan 2008 at 11:46

I turn all the power saving options off because i like to control it all myself. I never shut down my MacBook i will always put it to sleep at night or when i'm not using it for a while.

ilikedthecore · 14 Jan 2008 at 11:52

I have a MacBook and on battery power it is set to sleep after 5 mins and on mains power never. However, I always put it to sleep manually whenever I leave it so the automatic settings never kick in.

Sleep/wake is one of those things that just works for me on a Mac, unlike PC's I've used where its a guessing game as to whether it will come back on or not.

Will_3rd · 14 Jan 2008 at 11:58

Usually let my iBook sleep but it doesn't work 100% of the time though.

Deleted member 651465 · 14 Jan 2008 at 12:18

If I know i'm coming back to do something in twenty minutes then I'll sleep it, otherwise it gets turned off

It's not like it takes an age to boot up..

Jet · 14 Jan 2008 at 16:46

Both my iMac and iBook are only shut down when an update requires it. The rest of the time they're put to sleep and I've never had problems doing so.

I have the display turn off after 1 min to remind me that I aint doing any work lol, and it sleeps automatically after 1.5 hours so I can leave a DVD ripping or whatever.

I also use a download program that automatically puts the computer to sleep after it finishes downloading so I sometimes do that at night.

J1234 · 14 Jan 2008 at 17:15

I keep my MacBook Pro on 24/7, hasn't been off in months. Only restarted.

FreeStream · 14 Jan 2008 at 19:02

Justin said:
I keep my MacBook Pro on 24/7, hasn't been off in months. Only restarted.

Same except mines either been on or asleep

MacBook Pro here too and I either screensaver it where after 10 mins it turns the screen off or I close the lid

J1234 · 14 Jan 2008 at 19:09

That's what I meant, on or asleep

Spyhop · 14 Jan 2008 at 19:27

Seeding torrents, so it must always be on!

keogh · 14 Jan 2008 at 19:31

keogh said:
The main reason I ask, is cos a lot of people told me that letting your windows pc sleep was a bit dodgy, and odd things would happen (thats if you where able to take it out of its sleep). So I'm hoping the same isnt true with Apple machines (although I doubt)!

I just proved this information to be correct! Thought I'd put my Vista PC to sleep to see what happens, the machine went to sleep, all fans stopped and I thought so far so good.

I pressed every button on my keyboard and nout, so I pressed the power button, and the machine came out of sleep straight to the login screen, which was great.

Started entering my password and got a popup say "LoginUI Failure" with someother guff, then got the wonderful BSOD, and was forced to reboot

Good ol windows!

mrochester · 14 Jan 2008 at 19:52

keogh said:
I just proved this information to be correct! Thought I'd put my Vista PC to sleep to see what happens, the machine went to sleep, all fans stopped and I thought so far so good.

I pressed every button on my keyboard and nout, so I pressed the power button, and the machine came out of sleep straight to the login screen, which was great.

Started entering my password and got a popup say "LoginUI Failure" with someother guff, then got the wonderful BSOD, and was forced to reboot

Good ol windows!

I think sleep on Vista depends a lot on your motherboard. I have Home Premium on 2 PCs. On one, when it goes to sleep all fans turn off, power LED goes out etc, and the only way to wake it is with the power button. This is a Foxconn motherboard. My main PC, with Asus board, goes to sleep but leaves the power LED blinking. I can wake the Asus PC by moving/clicking the mouse, or hitting any key on the keyboard. No watter what settings I change on the Foxconn, it will only wake with the power button.

theheyes · 14 Jan 2008 at 19:55

Macintosh:~ theheyes$ uptime
19:53 up 10 days, 1:34, 3 users, load averages: 0.86 0.44 0.34

It goes to sleep every night just like me.

As for people having waking from sleep issues, mine works 98/100. The odd time I have to restart the thing.

keogh · 14 Jan 2008 at 20:04

mrochester said:
I think sleep on Vista depends a lot on your motherboard. I have Home Premium on 2 PCs. On one, when it goes to sleep all fans turn off, power LED goes out etc, and the only way to wake it is with the power button. This is a Foxconn motherboard. My main PC, with Asus board, goes to sleep but leaves the power LED blinking. I can wake the Asus PC by moving/clicking the mouse, or hitting any key on the keyboard. No watter what settings I change on the Foxconn, it will only wake with the power button.

My pc is a bit odd, if I make it sleep from the login screen, the fans go out and everything, yet if I tell it to sleep from within windows (like you would 99% of the time) then it seems the only thing that happens in the monitor goes to sleep, the pc stays as if it was on. Press a key and im on the login screen?!?!

schoey · 14 Jan 2008 at 20:53

mine kips after 20 mins,and always wakes without a problem.
17" imac 2.0 with 2gig ram

Ol!ver · 23 Jan 2008 at 00:29

Anyone had problems where the mac will wake itself up for seemingly no reason?

theheyes · 23 Jan 2008 at 02:17

I used to on ye olde iBook. Not so much the MacBook. Have you got Bluetooth enabled?

meghatronic · 23 Jan 2008 at 02:40

keogh said:
Do you let your mac sleep?

Yes, we take it in shifts. He sleeps why I'm awake.

In seriousness, no, I don't. It doesn't get turned off let alone sleep. Need it for SSH and could never get the bloody thing to WOL. Monitor powers off after like 3 mins though.

mrochester said:
I think sleep on Vista depends a lot on your motherboard. I have Home Premium on 2 PCs. On one, when it goes to sleep all fans turn off, power LED goes out etc, and the only way to wake it is with the power button. This is a Foxconn motherboard. My main PC, with Asus board, goes to sleep but leaves the power LED blinking. I can wake the Asus PC by moving/clicking the mouse, or hitting any key on the keyboard. No watter what settings I change on the Foxconn, it will only wake with the power button.

Well I used to be able to do the latter on mine, but since moving to Vista, only the former works now! P5W DH.

Do you let your mac sleep?

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