standby vs shutdown

[AoTiKo]

I always leave my laptop on standby. i just close the lid and leave it. DO you think it will wear the parts A LOT faster than shutting it down? It's must more convienent to just open it up and use it. Does anyone here htink it's a bad idea?

[SkyDog]

It won't wear anything down any faster except the battery. When a laptop is in standby mode, it's still using the battery to keep the contents of the RAM intact.

If you want to conserve your battery a bit (both short-term and long-term), you could hibernate the system instead of shutting it down. It won't be nearly as fast to come out of hibernation as it is from standby, but it shouldn't take as long as a cold boot, either.

[kent1146]

It won't "wear" down the parts a little faster, but standby mode will use battery life a little faster than shutdown.

Standby uses around 2% of the battery life that an active laptop uses. So if your laptop has 2 hours of active use on battery, it has 100 hours of standby (about 4 days).

If you put your laptop in standby on Friday, you'll have about half a battery remaining on Monday. If you shutdown your laptop on Friday, you'll have a full battery on Monday.

That's the only difference.

[rock]

I personally love standby for laptops and desktops. I just hate waiting for the thing to boot. Win9x (especially on laptops) had standby issues, but they haven't shown up in either Win2k or XP.

I use standby all the time when travelling. Do a bit of working before boarding, standby, after 5k feet (that first "ding"), working again, and standby whenever I need to pause. It uses virtually no battery compared to being on, and it's nearly instantaneous to wake up.