well environmentally you should turn your machine off cold whenever you aren't using it, even in hibernated standby states, there is still going to be a level of energy use. Are the handful of seconds that you could use doing other things that important?
Spent time reading about this and found http://www.rantingteacher.co.uk/ that seemed to cover the horror that teachers seem to feel in dealing with the chavs
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well environmentally you should turn your machine off cold whenever you aren't using it, even in hibernated standby states, there is still going to be a level of energy use. Are the handful of seconds that you could use doing other things that important?
Spent time reading about this and found http://www.rantingteacher.co.uk/ that seemed to cover the horror that teachers seem to feel in dealing with the chavs