Should I turn off my mac?

[O_Bsnacks]

Hello, 

 

So I wanted to know if I should shut my mac down every couple of days at night when I am not using it? I read from multiple sources that you shouldn't, but wouldn't that cause the battery to deteriorate faster? On my last mac I never really shut it off and I think this is one of the reasons that contributed to its short life. 

[savagemadman]

The power on time for my High Sierra Mac mini is something like 200 days, and only due to an extended power failure. It went for about a year and a half since the last restart before that -  when I replaced the SSD.

 

The only time I ever restart my Mac desktops is for updates, the only time they power off is for upgrades or moving them.

 

For a portable I’d set a charge limit to protect the battery, but otherwise they don’t turn off either.

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

1 hour ago, O_Bsnacks said:

Hello, 

 

So I wanted to know if I should shut my mac down every couple of days at night when I am not using it? I read from multiple sources that you shouldn't, but wouldn't that cause the battery to deteriorate faster? On my last mac I never really shut it off and I think this is one of the reasons that contributed to its short life. 

It's when the battery is kept at 100% charge for a prolonged time that shortens its life and in some cases causes the cells to swell. A year or so into the pandemic, our workplace saw a large number of laptop batteries swell up because of this given most people left their laptops plugged in 24/7 and our BIOS was misconfigured to favour battery duration, not health.