if long uptimes can kill your laptop , my laptop would 've been dead by now .. My current uptime is 5 days and 20 hrs . . I'm seriously thinkin about setting it up as a server ;-)
On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 8:34 AM, Narendra Diwate <[email protected]>wrote: > On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 22:32, nagendra prasad <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> This is just off topic, but I have just noticed that my laptop is running >> from 3 days and 2 hrs. My question is will it affect on my laptop's hardware >> compenets or not? Will it be harmful for a laptop or a desktop to run for a >> long time? I know it depends on temperature, but its raining from past 4 >> days in Hyderabad so its pretty much cool here. >> > > I dont think it will affect in any adverse way in the short and immediate > term, but long term yes. All components have a life span in running life and > you are using it if it left running. TV's are supposed to have a life of > 10000 hours or so that i had heard long ago. But if you have good power > management that shuts down the monitor, winds down the hard disk and so on, > it should not make a perceptible difference. > > On the other hand if its not doing anything why not suspend or hibernate > instead. > > -- > ubuntu-in mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in > > -- Yours Truly , SreeHari www.twitter.com/Sree_Hari "Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia." -Charles Schultz
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