[thetoothfairy]

I myself hardly ever have to. My Mac's are pretty stable. And when I do have to I use the commands below.

To restart it
Control-Command-Eject

Turn Off
Control-Option-Command-Eject

[pballa2099]

I usually don't get the beach ball and it will just freeze.. This only happens every few weeks though.

[Kitsune]

Erm... I've only 'had' to reboot twice in just over three years. Hehe, I love macs.

[one1]

Never.

[mobilexile]

I'll second the 'never' vote.

[DoerrFan]

Never

[Brookied]

on my imac not so much at all,
on the MBP i would say 3 times a week. mind you its running parallels win xp,SAP inside the xp
entourage, ms office, iworks, and other stuff.

[461am]

Every other week or so. Though maybe it's just because my macs kinda outdated.

[nickh]

Never!

[poetic_folly]

Originally Posted by pballa2099

I usually don't get the beach ball and it will just freeze.. This only happens every few weeks though.

Same here. All legit software, normal operations - sometimes it just freezes. 1-2 times per month I have to hard reboot it.

[chbearsrock]

Once so far...in about a three month span i'd say thats pretty peachy

[billchase2]

i probably restart about once every couple of weeks. typically, it's to free up hard drive space and to fix some sort of issue that may have come up. but, it's also a 2 1/2 year old powerbook G4, so i guess i can't expect too much out of it anymore... haha

[mgebara]

LOL! Only need to reboot after installing programs!

[pncntigger]

only twice this year

[tattoojack]

am i weird because i turn mine off when i sleep or go to work?