But when? While using your MacBook, you can log out of it, put it to sleep, restart, or shut it down at any time. Restarting is exactly what you think. You can power it back on by opening the lid or by pushing the power button.
You can help your Mac by restarting it and relaunching the applications, though you can have the same result by turning your Mac off. Although Apple designed macOS to manage memory use automatically, it is sometimes better to restart your Mac to basically clean it and wake it up as good as new.
The RAM will be cleared this way, maximizing certain processes that previously got stuck or became slow. There were multiple reasons to do it, but with the advanced technology, is it still the case? Is it still worth turning off your Apple laptop every night and what are the benefits if any of doing so? Consider shutting down the Mac only when not planning to use it for many days or during travel.
A long time ago I was told a story about a restaurant manager who managed to save electricity by turning off all point of sale computers every night. All computers were connected to one switch, so all he needed is to pull the switch turn them all off at once.
However, when he was coming back every and flipping the switch on, all computers will start at once. This would cause a huge surge in electricity and his bill was going up. So, he learned to turn off computers one by one at night and then start them again individually every morning. The point of this story is to illustrate how stressful is restart for a computer. But, again, this was a long time ago, maybe 20 years, maybe more.
All Apple products are Energy Star certified. According to Energy Star site the notebook MacBook in our case should consume at most:. So, every night we can save up to 80 watts and every year we save 29, watts or kilowatt hour kWh. The electricity rates are different in different states. According to Choose Energy web site the residential rates vary from 8. The average cost per kWh in the US is A long time ago when computers had a lot of mechanical parts the ones that had moving pieces would often wear out and eventually crash.
Instead of hard drives laptops have Solid State Drives SSD which do not have mechanical parts and they look more like microchips than disks. Ergo, shutting down the MacBook will not alleviate wearing out the issue because the issue simply does not apply anymore.
One more mechanical part which still may fail is a fan. But fans fail only when they work hard, and they only work hard when CPU heats up. And CPU heats up only when it is processing something which is unlikely a case if we think that shutting down a laptop is a good idea.
Besides, the latest inch MacBook which was discontinued does not have a fan at all. I am expecting that most new Macs will be fanless in the near future. Regular shutdowns do not improve battery lifespan. Not all developers are superstars, so not all applications have zero bugs. Very often apps have so-called memory leaks when the app reserves a block of memory without properly releasing it.
Over time such little leaks add up and some applications end up with taking away too much memory from other applications. These apps often get stuck with an infamous spinning wheel. The thing is that those leaks are contained within the application and rarely affect other apps. Loading page content. User profile for user: FoxFifth FoxFifth. Apple ID Speciality level out of ten: 0. Reply Helpful Thread reply - more options Link to this Post. User profile for user: adeelisyours adeelisyours.
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