Thread: Does switching off and on consume more power than standby?
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Originally Posted by krisse View Post
1. If I switch off my tablet and then switch it on a few hours later, does that consume more power than if I just leave the tablet on standby for the same amount of time?
As is apparently from the wildly differing battery life claims, there are probably too many variables here to really say for certain. So, more specifically, what's the consumption of a shutdown and a startup versus 1 hour of idling (say, with 2 SD cars in offline mode).

Originally Posted by krisse View Post
2. If that's the case, at what point does it become worth switching it off to save power? A day? Two days? A week? Or is it never worth switching it off because the battery runs down anyway?
The convenience factor should also be taken into account here. The device is really designed to be left on 24/7 (the ARM and wifi powersaving are particularly impressive).

Sorry I don't have any hard data.