MacBookPro Feed Back

Your call. Some people run their MBP 24/7, and have been for years.

Others shutdown at end of day for reasons about "applications and OSX should sleep sometime".

I have a little of both ... sometimes I leave it running for days just to avoid "setting up application configuration" again. Somes I shutdown because nothing needs to stay running, and I can unplug from the wall to remove all risk of accidental power spike damage.

MBP will shut itself down before it is injured.

But I have run 4 hours of NetFlix HD streaming while it was sitting on a hard flat surface (which is the intended positioning) and it never even approached overheating (but it did get hot).

Hi Indy,

I have the program iStat Pro which I use to monitor processes and memory usage on my MBP. What I've noticed is that if I've opened a whole bunch of programs, worked for a while and then closed them all, there is still RAM being used. I have 8Gb of RAM and sometimes I run out. This is defied as memory leaking and the only way you can fix it is by restarting your computer.

I try to make a habit of restarting my computer every few days for this reason, or if I'm about to start a big project where I have maybe two large programs running - ie Parallels (very memory intensive if you have allocated extra RAM to running Windows - lets face it, Windows needs all the memory it can get!) and another major application like Photoshop or Final Cut Pro.

If you find that your computer is running very slowly one day, chances are that it's run out of memory and its starting to use the swap file (when the RAM - ie very fast memory - is full, the system starts to transfer data to your much, much slower hard disk drive instead so that your system doesn't crash) which slows things down incredibly. Time for a restart!