Do I have to turn off computer over night ?
I have a Dell lap top and have been turning it off every night. Is this necessary. It takes a long time to boot up in the morning. I have win 8.1
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4X4Dodger wrote:
Fourth: Your computer is made up of many devices, some mechanical and many electrical. Why run any of these if it's not necessary? And contrary to one posters the computer is always drawing some level of current if only to keep the LED on the front on.
If anything the hard drives and, if present, optical drives are about the closest thing to "electrical" in a computer. But even those are electronic devices that have electric motors and moving parts. An electrical device is something simple such as a toaster or electric drill.
As for the, hard drive, it goes to sleep on any PC built in the last decade or more. Optical drives do not move unless a disc is present and in use.
Moreover, hard drives and optical drives are on their way out. SSDs have zero moving parts.
As for the computer drawing current when off, that is meaningless since on a laptop it is simply the battery charging circuitry doing its job. The computer itself is shut down or hibernating (which is also off). As far as the computer is concerned it might as well be unplugged.
Mike
