[dylan604]

I find it odd that people actually shut down their Apple laptops. Apple's sleep/wake (on real Apple hardware) has never let me down. When I'm done with the laptop, I just close the lid. Of course, I require a password on wake.

I'm curious if I'm in the minority on this?

[jffry]

I travel to and from my office on public transit each day, and I am in the habit of shutting down my laptop before putting it in my bag.

With full disk encryption and a strong password, it means one less thing to worry about in the unlikely event somebody steals my bag while I'm out and about. (I'd still invalidate credentials and rotate passwords, but it would be with less urgency).

Plus, it's not like it takes a huge amount of time in the morning to boot up - usually about the same amount of time as it takes me to get it plugged in and squared away on my desk anyways.

[kirb]

Couldn’t you just hibernate (ie, save the RAM contents to a file on disk, power off, then write the data back on next boot)? I don’t remember exactly how it’s done on macOS but it’s possible. You can also set it to hibernate after sleeping for a while which is what I use. https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/127650

[extra88]

FileVault can only truly protect your data when the Mac is off. Like jffry, I shutdown for my commute (a short one on public transit). Boot time and time to restore all my application windows is fast enough for me to not mind. Plus the fact that in general I use a work account at work and a personal account at home so I'd be logging in/out when arriving at each anyway.

[smnscu]

I'm in the same boat. You do have to reboot to install system updates though. I've developed a habit of always setting system volume at the minimum (non-zero) possible when plugging in headphones, so that if I need to restart the computer it will make close to no sound at all.

[quasse]

I need to reboot between OS X for programming and windows for CAD modeling fairly frequently. It can be really annoying if I forget to mute the sound before rebooting in a meeting.

[jagger27]

I've rebooted my MacBook maybe 5 times outside of system updates since I got it in 2013. One of those things that "just works".

[psyc]

No, I always just close the lid. But there are a bunch of reasons why you have to reboot, like software updates and bootcamp.