Leaving computers on overnight = $2.8 billion a year

tech.yahoo.com — Admittedly I don't think much about it at all. I leave my laptop running overnight because I know it'll take five minutes or more to get things going in the morning -- not just booting up, but launching the various apps I start the day with, downloading my overnight email, filtering out the spam, and otherwise "getting settled." Mar 29, 2009 View in Crawl 4