When do you shut down your laptop?
I've just purchased my first laptop, one of the new 12 powerbooks. As far as I can find, the only advice before moving the powerbook is to wait until the light on the latch is blinking slowly (indicating that the hard drive is spun down). Do I need to shut down before taking the powerbook to work, (car commute) or is it good enough to sleep and spin down the hard drive? I have a padded shoulder bag, so it's reasonably well protected. Thanks for answering this newbie question! Carl -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: When do you shut down your laptop?
Do I need to shut down before taking the powerbook to work, (car commute) or is it good enough to sleep and spin down the hard drive? The only time I shut mine down is if I'm not going to be using it for a few days (which doesn't happen very often :-)). Otherwise I just put it to sleep, put it in my shoulder bag, and go. Brian -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: When do you shut down your laptop?
on 09/10/03 17:03, Carl Testerman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just purchased my first laptop, one of the new 12 powerbooks. As far as I can find, the only advice before moving the powerbook is to wait until the light on the latch is blinking slowly (indicating that the hard drive is spun down). Do I need to shut down before taking the powerbook to work, (car commute) or is it good enough to sleep and spin down the hard drive? I have a padded shoulder bag, so it's reasonably well protected. I just put mine to sleep. -Laurent. -- Laurent Daudelin AIM/iChat: LaurentDaudelinhttp://nemesys.dyndns.org Logiciels Nemesys Software mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] casting the runes n.: What a guru does when you ask him or her to run a particular program and type at it because it never works for anyone else; esp. used when nobody can ever see what the guru is doing different from what J. Random Luser does. Compare incantation, runes, examining the entrails; also see the AI koan about Tom Knight in Some AI Koans (Appendix A). -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: When do you shut down your laptop?
On 10/9/03 5:03 PM, Carl Testerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just purchased my first laptop, one of the new 12 powerbooks. As far as I can find, the only advice before moving the powerbook is to wait until the light on the latch is blinking slowly (indicating that the hard drive is spun down). Do I need to shut down before taking the powerbook to work, (car commute) or is it good enough to sleep and spin down the hard drive? I have a padded shoulder bag, so it's reasonably well protected. In all the years I've owned PowerBooks - I go back to the original PB 140 - I have only turned my 'books off when I went on vacation. They've slept on trains, planes, and automobiles, on bikes, in my backpack, and on my motorcycle. It's one of the joys of owning a 'book. david -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- One ring to rule them all, one ring to find them One ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: When do you shut down your laptop?
mine (along with thousands more I would imagine) have even slept through the X-ray machines at the airport, 100% safe! -Andrew On Thursday, October 9, 2003, at 07:14 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In all the years I've owned PowerBooks - I go back to the original PB 140 - I have only turned my 'books off when I went on vacation. They've slept on trains, planes, and automobiles, on bikes, in my backpack, and on my motorcycle. It's one of the joys of owning a 'book. david -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: When do you shut down your laptop?
mine (along with thousands more I would imagine) have even slept through the X-ray machines at the airport, 100% safe! -Andrew (Hey, nice name!) I think at one time that this was actually a MacWorld user tip. They suggested that when going through security, you have your Mac sleeping so that it is quicker to wake up and prove to the security agents that it's fully functional and not an explosive device... (Ignoring, of course, all jokes about 5300s or Wallstreet power supplies.) Peace, Drew -- Author of ClassicStumbler email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.alksoft.com/ Visit the PowerBook 5300 FAQ! http://www.alksoft.com/5300_FAQ/ -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: When do you shut down your laptop?
I haven't actually shutdown my Pismo for anything more than a restart since I added RAM to it ... that was in January. I never shutdown my Pismo basically. David On Thursday, October 9, 2003, at 04:03 PM, Carl Testerman wrote: I've just purchased my first laptop, one of the new 12 powerbooks. As far as I can find, the only advice before moving the powerbook is to wait until the light on the latch is blinking slowly (indicating that the hard drive is spun down). Do I need to shut down before taking the powerbook to work, (car commute) or is it good enough to sleep and spin down the hard drive? I have a padded shoulder bag, so it's reasonably well protected. Thanks for answering this newbie question! Carl -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: When do you shut down your laptop?
Do what your most comfortable with. Sleep or shut down. I sleep em' if I will be using them and shut em' down if I'm not. Brandy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just purchased my first laptop, one of the new 12 powerbooks. As far as I can find, the only advice before moving the powerbook is to wait until the light on the latch is blinking slowly (indicating that the hard drive is spun down). Do I need to shut down before taking the powerbook to work, (car commute) or is it good enough to sleep and spin down the hard drive? I have a padded shoulder bag, so it's reasonably well protected. Thanks for answering this newbie question! Carl -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
