Re: [H] laptop 24/7

[Harry McGregor]

Hi, 

I leave my thinkpad w520 on 24/7, if I close the lid (sleep when closed is 
turned off) and rest it somewherr, I just make sure the fan vent is up and not 
blocked.

This w520 is rather loaded, i7, 32gb memory, 500gb ssd, 512gb msata ssd, and an 
800gb ssd in the ultrabay.

Harry


On December 18, 2016 12:13:34 PM MST, Winterlight  
wrote:
>I am currently in temporary quarters for the next couple of months. 
>With my WS I never turned anything off it would run untill I had to 
>reboot for updates.  I have sent up a temporary office using a Lenovo 
>Edge I7 Quad core, my good mechanical keyboard, mouse  and a 24 inch 
>monitor. The laptop is plugged in and sitting on a Thermaltake giant 
>fan laptop cooler. I turn it on in the morning and turn it off at 
>night. I would like to just let it run all night as I want it to keep 
>checking mail, and be ready to use when I turn the monitor back on in 
>the morning rather then having to boot up, and set everything up 
>again. Does it hurt a laptop to let it run like this 24/7? Thanks

-- 
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Re: [H] laptop 24/7

[Joshua MacCraw]

battery charger ruining cells was a concern, but I last heard that was a
decade ago.

Toshiba builds with copper coated plastic clamshells and no internal
structural integrity. Seen a few and now have even more reason not to
recommend them .

On Dec 18, 2016 3:13 PM, "Greg Sevart" <ad...@xfury.net> wrote:

That's a remarkably good point. I was about to reply that it should be fine,
I've done it with about all of my laptops, but they've all been business
grade systems.

So home grade or Toshiba anything, probably not. :)

-Original Message-
From: Hardware [mailto:hardware-boun...@lists.hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf
Of Thane Sherrington
Sent: Sunday, December 18, 2016 2:19 PM
To: hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com
Subject: Re: [H] laptop 24/7

Provided it's a business grade laptop, it'll be fine.  Home grade, probably
not.

T


On 18/12/2016 3:13 PM, Winterlight wrote:
> I am currently in temporary quarters for the next couple of months.
> With my WS I never turned anything off it would run untill I had to
> reboot for updates.  I have sent up a temporary office using a Lenovo
> Edge I7 Quad core, my good mechanical keyboard, mouse  and a 24 inch
> monitor. The laptop is plugged in and sitting on a Thermaltake giant
> fan laptop cooler. I turn it on in the morning and turn it off at
> night. I would like to just let it run all night as I want it to keep
> checking mail, and be ready to use when I turn the monitor back on in
> the morning rather then having to boot up, and set everything up
> again. Does it hurt a laptop to let it run like this 24/7? Thanks
>
>

Re: [H] laptop 24/7

[Greg Sevart]

That's a remarkably good point. I was about to reply that it should be fine,
I've done it with about all of my laptops, but they've all been business
grade systems.

So home grade or Toshiba anything, probably not. :)

-Original Message-
From: Hardware [mailto:hardware-boun...@lists.hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf
Of Thane Sherrington
Sent: Sunday, December 18, 2016 2:19 PM
To: hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com
Subject: Re: [H] laptop 24/7

Provided it's a business grade laptop, it'll be fine.  Home grade, probably
not.

T


On 18/12/2016 3:13 PM, Winterlight wrote:
> I am currently in temporary quarters for the next couple of months. 
> With my WS I never turned anything off it would run untill I had to 
> reboot for updates.  I have sent up a temporary office using a Lenovo 
> Edge I7 Quad core, my good mechanical keyboard, mouse  and a 24 inch 
> monitor. The laptop is plugged in and sitting on a Thermaltake giant 
> fan laptop cooler. I turn it on in the morning and turn it off at 
> night. I would like to just let it run all night as I want it to keep 
> checking mail, and be ready to use when I turn the monitor back on in 
> the morning rather then having to boot up, and set everything up 
> again. Does it hurt a laptop to let it run like this 24/7? Thanks
>
>

Re: [H] laptop 24/7

[Winterlight]

It's a Thinkpad with a station doc so business.

At 01:18 PM 12/18/2016, you wrote:
Provided it's a business grade laptop, it'll be fine.  Home grade, 
probably not.


T


On 18/12/2016 3:13 PM, Winterlight wrote:
I am currently in temporary quarters for the next couple of months. 
With my WS I never turned anything off it would run untill I had to 
reboot for updates.  I have sent up a temporary office using a 
Lenovo Edge I7 Quad core, my good mechanical keyboard, mouse  and a 
24 inch monitor. The laptop is plugged in and sitting on a 
Thermaltake giant fan laptop cooler. I turn it on in the morning 
and turn it off at night. I would like to just let it run all night 
as I want it to keep checking mail, and be ready to use when I turn 
the monitor back on in the morning rather then having to boot up, 
and set everything up again. Does it hurt a laptop to let it run 
like this 24/7? Thanks

Re: [H] laptop 24/7

[Thane Sherrington]

Provided it's a business grade laptop, it'll be fine.  Home grade, 
probably not.


T


On 18/12/2016 3:13 PM, Winterlight wrote:
I am currently in temporary quarters for the next couple of months. 
With my WS I never turned anything off it would run untill I had to 
reboot for updates.  I have sent up a temporary office using a Lenovo 
Edge I7 Quad core, my good mechanical keyboard, mouse  and a 24 inch 
monitor. The laptop is plugged in and sitting on a Thermaltake giant 
fan laptop cooler. I turn it on in the morning and turn it off at 
night. I would like to just let it run all night as I want it to keep 
checking mail, and be ready to use when I turn the monitor back on in 
the morning rather then having to boot up, and set everything up 
again. Does it hurt a laptop to let it run like this 24/7? Thanks

Re: [H] laptop 24/7

[Robert Martin Jr.]

With the extra cooling it should be fine especially if it drops into low power 
mode when you're not using it. My parents are running an old AMD laptop that 
has rarely been turned off for 7 years. I'm amazed the damn thing still works. 
They have it on a generic laptop cooler rest with fans.
lopaka

  From: Winterlight <winterli...@winterlight.org>
 To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com 
 Sent: Sunday, December 18, 2016 11:13 AM
 Subject: [H] laptop 24/7
   
I am currently in temporary quarters for the next couple of months. 
With my WS I never turned anything off it would run untill I had to 
reboot for updates.  I have sent up a temporary office using a Lenovo 
Edge I7 Quad core, my good mechanical keyboard, mouse  and a 24 inch 
monitor. The laptop is plugged in and sitting on a Thermaltake giant 
fan laptop cooler. I turn it on in the morning and turn it off at 
night. I would like to just let it run all night as I want it to keep 
checking mail, and be ready to use when I turn the monitor back on in 
the morning rather then having to boot up, and set everything up 
again. Does it hurt a laptop to let it run like this 24/7? Thanks



   

[H] laptop 24/7

[Winterlight]

I am currently in temporary quarters for the next couple of months. 
With my WS I never turned anything off it would run untill I had to 
reboot for updates.  I have sent up a temporary office using a Lenovo 
Edge I7 Quad core, my good mechanical keyboard, mouse  and a 24 inch 
monitor. The laptop is plugged in and sitting on a Thermaltake giant 
fan laptop cooler. I turn it on in the morning and turn it off at 
night. I would like to just let it run all night as I want it to keep 
checking mail, and be ready to use when I turn the monitor back on in 
the morning rather then having to boot up, and set everything up 
again. Does it hurt a laptop to let it run like this 24/7? Thanks