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Originally Posted by TheMatt
I just leave my laptop durring the day, and when I go to sleep at night, I put it on standby. Its probably not a good idea to be shuting down and booting up daily, plus it takes a lot longer than waking up the computer.
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Shutting down and restarting a computer doesn't hurt it in any way.
If I had a laptop that I actually used, I would definitely shut it down every night and restart it when I next need it, if not for the power I'd save (probably a few dozen watt-hours a night) then for the security of not having it attended for hours on end, both from a physical and internet standpoint. Actually in terms of not being good for a computer, between leaving a computer on all the time and turning it off every night I'd have to say leaving it on all the time would probably be a bad idea.