shutting down the Mac Mini M4 every day, good or bad. I just want to know if there is any harm or is it good to put in sleeping mode after my work finished, like putting in sleep mode for about 7-8 hours.
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There was a time with the old spinning hard drives that leaving a machine on was desired because of the long times it took to boot when starting up. With the current machines and the high speed SSDs, that is no longer the case.
Personally, I keep my M1 Mac powered 24/7 and simply use Lock Screen. I take advantage of having it run 24/7 by scheduling backup tasks and other activities while I am asleep. Using Lock Screen will eventually kill the video to the display and the display not seeing video for some period of time will put itself to sleep.
However, if you are not comfortable leaving it on all the time, by all means shut in off when not in use. Either way, nothing will get harmed.
There was a time with the old spinning hard drives that leaving a machine on was desired because of the long times it took to boot when starting up. With the current machines and the high speed SSDs, that is no longer the case.
Personally, I keep my M1 Mac powered 24/7 and simply use Lock Screen. I take advantage of having it run 24/7 by scheduling backup tasks and other activities while I am asleep. Using Lock Screen will eventually kill the video to the display and the display not seeing video for some period of time will put itself to sleep.
However, if you are not comfortable leaving it on all the time, by all means shut in off when not in use. Either way, nothing will get harmed.
Avoid Sleep - unnecessary and can cause mystery issues. Shut is best.
Mac Mini M4 with Sequoia 15.2 here. You can use a terminal and the command line to set a wake schedule.
To see a repeating schedule:
sudo pmset -g sched
To wake or power on every day at 9am:
sudo pmset repeat wakeorpoweron MTWRFSU 09:00:00
To remove the repeat schedule:
sudo pmset repeat cancel
I leave my Mac running all day and shut it down before bed.
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I suppose some people leave their house lights on 24/7 as well as their computers. That all seems so unnecessary.
It is not necessary nor beneficial to routinely shut down a Mac, and depending on how long it remains completely shut down it can arguably result in greater overall power consumption.
Use a Mac the same way you would use an iPhone, an Apple Watch, a wireless printer, your wireless routers, or any other electronic device — when you're not using it, just ignore it.
No argument here - routine shutting doesn’t consume more power. Was that supposed to be a joke 😅
If you want to start/shutdown daily I would recommend an app like Onyx that has a utility that lets you set the time for startup and shut down. Then you do have to worry about using the bottom power button to start each day.
No harm shutting it down every day.
Also no harm leaving it on 24/7.
It is helpful and recommended to restart the Mac from time to time to allow the OS to do housekeeping - maybe once a week.
Harmless but 100% unnecessary too.
Some do some do not, it really makes no difference.
Are you asking for an explanation?
No! Thanks for the chuckle!
It is fine to shut down the device everyday. but no need to do that. I only do this when my mac runs slowly sometimes.
Is it harmful to shut down my Mac Mini M4 every day?
