David R. Litwin wrote: > The question is this: Why should I ever turn off my laptop on a normal > occasion (normal being every-day, standard, stationary usage)? Because you care about the planet... > If I don't > want it on, I can suspend it in some way: Waking-up is faster than > booting-up. Absolutely. I power off, but I never do a shutdown except when changing kernels. The rest of the time I use suspend-to-disk. -- derek