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F Ribeiro:

--- Quote from: blgentry on October 07, 2018, 08:00:53 am ---It's my opinion that leaving computers on is better in all ways.  I've been in IT for more than 20 years.  But let's just call it my opinion, as I can see that debating this probably won't help anyone, as minds already seem to be made up, no matter what I say.

Jim is a huge believer in shutting things down, so maybe he will actually get the MC team to put effort into making sleep and power down work in a friendly way with MC.  As it stands right now, sleep, shutdown, and wake are... let's call their behavior less than optimal.

On the other hand you are now saying you don't like the Mac platform.  Would MC and JRemote doing sleep/shutdown/wake change your opinion at all?  I always wonder why people say they don't like Mac... except when I find out they've used Windows for 20 years and want Mac to behave like Windows.  They behave differently on purpose.  In many cases, a simple change in approach will yield you excellent results with the Mac.  It's just a matter of thinking about it a little differently.

Brian.

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Hi,

After reading blgentry opinion carefully and being a Windows user for over than 20 years, I have to admit that I will allways be conditioned by that.
I will try a more open minded approach to mac OS.

JimH approach (set mac to sleep after X minutes) seems to make sense after reading what was said in this topic.

The thing is, I don't know how.
In my 2014 Mac Mini running Mojave (the same for High Sierra), I can see an option to turn off the display after a period of time, and an option to prevent it to sleep.
But no option to sleep after a certain period of time.

I will let it to the OS.

Thanks all for the help.

blgentry:

--- Quote from: blgentry on October 07, 2018, 08:31:44 am ---Could I be just completely and totally wrong about this?  Sure.  Maybe my knowledge on this is old and/or compartmentalized.  I'll have to ask a few more colleagues what they think and consider their opinions also.

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I had a lunch conversation with a friend today who has been in IT for quite a long time and has taken care of a good number of Mac desktops, PC desktops, laptops, and servers. 

He seemed to think that power up, power down, and sleep made little if any difference in lifetime to modern computers.  Pretty much the exact opposite of my opinion.  This survey of exactly two people (me and my friend) is kinda worthless, but it at least demonstrates that some IT professionals disagree with my opinion and think that power down and/or sleep are just fine.

Brian.

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