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From: thompson@m.cs.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Leave it on?  Or once a week?
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Date: 14 Feb 90 01:40:05 GMT
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Nf-From: m.cs.uiuc.edu!thompson    Feb 13 12:58:00 1990


I just read a note in c.s.m claiming that it was better (for the Mac)
 to leave your Mac on all the time than to turn it on/off *once a week*.
 Is this true?  That seems incredible to me (and I doubt anyone who has a Mac
 uses it less than once a week).

I could maybe buy "once a day", although even that seems to be stretching
 it to me.  But "once a week?" Really?

And how much extra power does it suck up?  Per week/day or whatever?
 (i.e., will it be cost-effective?  Or at least cheap enough to
  justify to myself?)

- Mark Thompson
  TA from Elysium
  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign