Shutdown or Sleep MacBook Overnight?
Please help me this confuses me a lot for what's the best for the mac to whether shutdown or sleep mac overnight thank you.
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Both are good.
Shutdown make it necessary for you to wait the entire boot next morning.
Sleep just puts it to a low power state but maintains very basic functions so when you get back to it, once you open the lid, everything gets back on just the way you left.
Nowadays there's Power Nap that can update some things even when the Mac is asleep. When you get back to the Mac this things will be updated for you already (but it drains a bit more power when active and doing its thing).
If you're going to leave it plugged in, sleep mode is fine. If you're going to unplug it, maybe you better turn it off so it won't drain battery.
Sleep mode takes very little battery actually, so it isn't a real problem because you'll still have power the next morning. If in the next day you're goin to plug it back in, you'll be OK.
