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Well, it's not powered all the time, your computer probably go to sleep while you're not in the room for a period of time, but the state of the computer is kept in memory. So it definitely feels like it never stopped. Having that state kept around is hardly a bad thing IMO.

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Nope. Total power down. Not standby or hibernate.

And, that rotten "Reopen windows when logging back in" checkbox on Macs really grinds my gears. (...maybe I'm just a control freak)

Agreed that this checkbox sucks!

"Hibernate" is a total power down (from the machine perspective).

I'm surprised you're not a linux dude, from the way you feel about control

I think he is, maybe he doesn't know it yet.

I believe that classification would be more suited for a *BSD user or someone concerned with integrating the Plan 9 userspace into their workstation.

Linux has a pretty low entry point nowadays. Plenty of people I know surf the web, use Skype and check their email like any other user but do it on Ubuntu.

I would switch over too, but I'm so used to all the windows shortcuts, and also Office(!) that I'm just too lazy to switch.

There are some WMs which either emulate look-and-feel of the Windows environment, or let you map hotkeys, that this isn't too much of a hurdle. My preference happens to be WindowMaker, which allows extensive hotkey mappings.

Cool, you have a personal preference :)

So uncheck it?

Have I done something weird to my Mac? 10.7.5 Lion here, when I press the power button it comes up unchecked by default.

"Edit: since 10.7.4, the "Reopen windows when logging back in" checkbox has stayed unchecked if you uncheck it once, so the hacks below are not needed anymore."

Update your Mac.

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