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Rarely. Maybe when I'm on an airplane and they tell me to.

 

I shut mine down every night before I go to bed. I turn it on in the morning before work and shut it down again before I leave for work. I don't like having anything left "on" when there is no one home...just a quirk of mine. I voted every day, but it's always twice a day.

 

I rarely shut my iMac down, but I reboot about once a day. Especially if I've used Lightroom or Photoshop, which is almost every day. I've noticed it can get sluggish if I've used it a lot without restarting.

As for my phone, I rarely shut that down either.

 

I shut mine down every night too. I used to keep it in sleep mode but have found lately that it was switching itself on whenever there were internet surges.

 

This is an interesting thread. I rarely turn my computer off, just let it go to sleep. And at work we are told to leave our computers on all the time, just to lock the screen when we leave. that's so they can push updates during non-working hours remotely.

 

I'm in the habit of every other day or so. Definitely when I won't be around for a day or two.

 

I reboot my MacBook Pro maybe twice a month unless there are updates or I install new programs or something. I've never had an issue - I did this with my last MacBook Pro too!

My desktop PC at work gets shutdown every night though.

 

When I had my old laptop: every day. It made such a sound and it heated up so badly. Everybody would have done the same.

My work laptop: only for updates or things like that. I just close it when I change rooms of places so it's usually on standby and I really don't want to wait every time for it to start. Also all my work is open as if to-do lists. And Windows computers need to update So Often!!! I don't have time for that. So it's usually on standby in my bag.

My iMac: about every other week or when he wants me to. It's so pretty and quiet and it keeps all the tabs open and it still works perfectly fine. I restart every other week when I feel like it's slowing down or when I feel like it's been on too long or I'm not going to be on for a few days.
Otherwise it's sleeping.

 

With my old laptop I rarely shut it down, usually it did it on its own. I didn't turn it off because it would take sooooo long to rebo0t and then to open programs (especially PS and web browsers).
My new laptop boots so fast and PS opens with a click, so I could turn it off more, just in the habit of not doing so. However, after your awesome explanantion @BevG I think I will start. I really dislike clutter

 

My Apple techs over the years have always recommended turning it off at night. I also have it set to turn on at 06:30 every morning so if I sleep in that room it's an alarm clock! I sign in, go and get my tea and it's happily ready for me when I walk back upstairs. If I'm not getting out of bed, and don't sign in, it goes into sleep mode in about a minute.

When I was working for State government, they also wanted us to turn our machines off at night. Updates could still be done as the IT department had control of our PCs and could access them at any time and did. It was the same when I worked for the federal government.

Just as sleep cleans our brains of clutter, so does turning off a computer is a good thing too.

 

Ours is getting a bit old, if we leave it on for more than half a day, it overheats and turns itself off. And our monitor decides by itself to go into standby mode, ie shuts fown even if the computer is working perfectly as well, then we have to shut everything down and leave it for half an hour or so. Have spent a lot of hours swearing at our technology....