Hi Russell, I usually shut my mac mini down, but I have a friend of mine who is trying to get me always to put my mini to sleep, because that's the way he does things, and there is a side of this argument for sleep or shut down that says that the computer will last longer if the electronics are kept at a warm temperature, but I like to shut mine down. On Sun, 8 Nov 2009 20:21:52 -0700, Russell Solowoniuk wrote: Hi all, I've had my iMac for 3 months now. I usually shut it down at the endof the day when I'm done using it, and wonder what other folks do? Do you all shut down your Macs each day or leave them running? Is one method preferable? Thanks for any and all help. Russell > > Click on the link below to go to our homepage. > http://www.icanworkthisthing.com > > Manage your subscription by using the web interface on the link below. > //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover > > Users can subscribe to this list by sending email to > macvoiceover-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > with 'subscribe' in the Subject field OR by logging into the Web > interface at //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover > Marty