On 18 Jul 2004, at 17:41, Sean Billings wrote:
How many people leave their mac compacts running 24 hours everyday? Are
these vintage machines up to it or should I continue to power it off when
I'm not using it? I'm careful to use a screensaver because I know that
these little monochrome CRT's can suffer from screen burn.
Turn them off if you're not going to use one for:
1 hour - fanless Macs a few hours - fanned Macs.
It's a balance between heat and age related failures vs failures caused by surges at power-up.
All IMHO, of course!
Stuart
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