should i shut down or sleep my computer?
The answer will vary depending on who you ask. What I’ve always done is keep my computer on all day, merely putting it to sleep when I’m not using it. Then at night I’ll turn it off, but then again sometimes I will leave it on sleep and nothing bad happens. (It doesn’t blow up.)
When you leave for vacation that’s when you really want to shut it down. When you put a computer to sleep it basically enters a low powered state. It turns off everything it doesn’t need at the moment. However RAM does need continual power. Now if your computer can support hibernation then that’s even better. Hibernation will save everything in the RAM to the Hard Drive and put your computer into a very very low powered state.
Turning your computer off all the time will wear down your computer’s components and use up much more power.
The Fake Geek