People are astonished about the relatively quick boot time of the new Intel Macs (compared with the old G4/G5 Macs) you could find many comments on the Internet.
WHY. BOTHER.
The uptime for my iMac is now at 17 days.
The uptime for my TiBook used to run to over 30 days.
Mac users put their Macs to sleep. When they need to use them the machines wake up in a few seconds.