for the last few days productivity is up I'm back at it faster. Is there a good reason to fully shutdown besides long term non usage?
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I don't shutdown my 14" Macbook Pro
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Occasionally a full shutdown will flush out any kludge, free up any memory not properly released by apps, etc. But most of the time, you can just sleep and wake it. If you notice odd behavior or sluggishness, a full restart or shutdown-wait a few seconds-restart might address whatever the issue.
I restart once a week, old habit. I also restart my WiFi mesh network nodes once a week. Again an old habit. Boot times in both cases are minimal it gets everything back to a fresh start. Almost all WiFi router viruses will not survive a reboot and those devices are public facing. My Windows desktop gets booted once a week, restarts take less than a minute.
with the pace of current updates (once in month), it automatically reboots every time it updates so no problems.
I shut my MacBook down in between each application that I run. That keeps it at it's best.
Do you also recharge your battery when it gets below 98%? 🤣🤣🤣 That keeps the battery fresh.
Yes, I understand your sarcasm.
I'm another one for the update restarts only. When I was still using my 2012 MacBook Air, which was stuck on Catalina, uptimes were getting quite long. I'm sure I had over a year between reboots at one point.
I'll leave it on standby most time and occasionally turn it off every few days here and there.
Obvs I'm still new to Mac but god windows can't lay a candle to it when it comes to 1 second start up from sleep.
MBP 16" is impressive I just run the battery to 20-30% then throw it on a charger till 90% ish.
Obvs I'm still new to Mac but god windows can't lay a candle to it when it comes to 1 second start up from sleep.
MBP 16" is impressive I just run the battery to 20-30% then throw it on a charger till 90% ish.
Most of the startup time on Windows from sleep was spinning up the spinning rust. With SSD systems the wake from sleep is really quick, about the same as the Mac on my Windows desktop.
I just buy a new MacBook each time I finish using an application.
Wow, you must be rich. I have to wait every second or third time.