Timeline for Does a laptop need to be regularly shut down?
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| Dec 23, 2020 at 17:25 | comment | added | Tetsujin | Sleep must use some power to hold RAM stable. Hibernate doesn't necessarily, as the RAM state has been saved to disk. None of this has any relevance to the question, of course, which never mentioned power states. | |
| Dec 22, 2020 at 11:02 | comment | added | FelixJN | From the energy consumption point of view, hibernate and shutdown are the same. After all a hibernated system just saves its state to the hard drive (instead of leaving it in RAM like sleep mode does) and resumes from there. | |
| Dec 22, 2020 at 10:24 | history | answered | Sunny | CC BY-SA 4.0 |