Originally Posted By: eddie1261
Why do you let your computers go to sleep? There is no advantage to it.


Yes there is.

Sleep was originally developed to extend battery life on laptops. You take a brief break and close the lid on your laptop and any windows open as well as their current state are saved in your PC's RAM. Now, when you open your laptop's lid, it's as if you never left. The time it takes to bring everything back to life takes only a second or two.

If your battery nears the point of death while in sleep mode, your PC will automatically save your place onto the hard drive and will resume whenever it is plugged back into power. On a desktop, where you don't have a battery option, something called hybrid sleep takes care of the threat of losing your work when in sleep mode.

So on a desktop, the main argument in favor of using sleep is to avoid losing your work.

On a laptop it’s to avoid losing your work and to avoid using up your battery during periods of inactivity.

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