Thread: Laptop: Do you sleep or shut down?
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Old 06-12-2010
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Costs 0.25p per hour to leave on sleep. There are worse things to leave on standby http://www.oople.com/forums/showthread.php?t=32562
I always switch it off. Not worth the risk however small of it going up in flames.
there's no need to leave it connected to the wall while asleep over night since we have lipo power

also I'm not sure if windows does this, but on a mac it transfers the RAM to HDD when sleeping which is why you don't see it start blinking the moment you shut the lid. I've seen mine not even change from "(charged)" after an overnight sleep.

I wouldn't chance leaving a desktop PC on overnight unless I had a UPS connected.
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