Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger: Visual QuickStart Guide

Sleeping, Restarting, & Shutting Down

The Apple menu (Figure 65) offers several options that change the work state of your computer:

• Sleep puts the computer into a state where it uses very little power. The screen goes blank and the hard disk may stop spinning.

• Restart instructs the computer to shut down and immediately start back up.

• Shut Down closes all open documents and programs, clears memory, and cuts power to the computer.

• Log Out User Name closes all open documents and programs and clears memory. Your computer remains running until you or someone else logs in.

Figure 65. Four commands under the Apple menu let you change the work state of your computer.

I discuss all of these commands on the following pages.

To put your computer to sleep ...