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Ask HN: When was the last time you completely shutdown your laptop?
I just thought about it today, and realized I haven't actually shutdown my laptop for a very long time. I have a MacBook Pro and just close the screen; it's quicker, and I can get back to work in less time. I just wanted to see if I was the only one or if some of you do the same.
- anderspetersson 12y agoProlly a month or so ago when I went away for a weekend and didn't bring my laptop. I do the same, just close the screen to my MBP.
- a3n 12y agoAt night I suspend by closing the screen. In the morning when I leave (the laptop stays home) I hibernate, which copies memory to disk, encrypts the whole disk and then shuts the power down. When I come home I power up, entering my long-ass encryption password, then wait half a minute and enter my shorter login password. I hibernate so that if someone breaks in, all they get is the laptop, not the data. I don't worry about the NSA [hi guys], they already have the data, or they can beat it out of me if they care. I think if I regularly carried my laptop during the day I'd hibernate rather than just suspend, because some day the laptop will walk away.
- ricardobeat 12y agoWindows I assume? I believe since Lion, OSX encrypts the disk encryption keys with your password whenever the screen is locked.
- a3n 12y agoUbuntu
- informatimago 12y agoI never shut it down. Sometimes it crashes, or it may happen the battery goes flat, and it has to reboot, but otherwise, it's always on or sleeping.
- krapp 12y agoI shut it down every night.
- MichaelStubbs 12y agoLast night. The boot time is usually 12 seconds maximum, and it doesn't take any longer than ~20 seconds for my work to load up (depending on what I'm doing, most of my work loads up pretty much instantly). I don't really miss the few extra seconds it takes.
- FlyingAvatar 12y agoIf some updates did not require a reboot, it would probably happen once a year when a hard crash occurs on my MBP.
- 27182818284 12y agoWas having problems with the Postgres install from Homebrew. Finally kicked it away and rebooted to have more of a fresh start. So last week.
- msantos 12y agoEvery time I'm about to go through custom's X-ray machines. I'm not sure why, maybe just coincidence, twice my previous Dell XPS stopped working after going through airport xray while in sleep mode.
- billconan 12y agoI don't remember. I reboot it once a while, but I seem to never shut it down.
- notduncansmith 12y agoIn the several months I've owned my MBA, barring battery death and update-related reboots, never. Not once have I willingly shut my computer down without intent to immediately fire it back up. I just close it, for the same reasons as OP.
- partisan 12y agoMy Dell Windows 7 laptop, every 2 - 3 days, grimacing as I do. I don't reboot my Macbook until I get nagged enough that an update requires a reboot, which seems to happen a lot more often on Mountain Lion than it did on Snow Leopard.
- ja27 12y agoA week. I probably average 2-3 weeks. I almost never shut it down though but it will crash or need a reboot for a patch.
- taksintik 12y ago1.5 months ago. MacBook Pro running osx,win 7 and linux simultaneously.