Question: I heard that a hard disk in a laptop is more susceptible to damage if it is turned on. ?A person damaged their laptop’s hard drive by having their laptop on while it was in their backpack.
I also carry my MacBook Pro around in my backpack. ?Is it safe to have it in sleep mode while it’s in my backpack, or should I turn it completely off?
Answer: I’ve been doing it (carrying a sleeping machine around in my hand, backpack, trunk, etc…) with Apple laptops for years. Going back to my powerbook 190cs in the early 1990s.
No trouble.
Had a few PC laptops in there, too and treated them the same way also with no trouble. Note that “sleep” means slightly different things in the two cases, though.