What was the longest time you ever left your laptop on?

Please specify your laptop and the time.

Laptop-G2s
Time-14hrs++

Got my g2s lastweek. For now the longest was 14hrs, but when im not infront of my notebook, i switch it to power-saving mode.

I used to own Acer4050, left it on for almost 4 days, i was downloading stuffs.

How about you?

 

dell 600m
left it on for 4 weeks cuz i was downloading lots of stuff :X
but i did flip it over and take off the covers to let the comp get more air.

 

A week or so - no good reason to turn it off.

~ Brett

 

Hmm... probably a month+. Of course I restarted a couple of times... but I didn't turn it off.

 

HP ze2000
4 months not counting restarts

 

Not to burst your bubble, but keeping a laptop on for such extended periods isn't exactly a good thing:

- Component wear is accelerated by heat.
- Most laptops don't have very good heat dissipation.
- It is highly doubtful that the tiny little fans on most laptop CPUs are designed for 100% duty cycle over the span of a month.
- Systems with a discrete GPU are even more susceptible to heat damage since you have another heat source in the chassis.

Not quite as rugged as a desktop. If you need something that tough to run 24/7, get a desktop. If you need tougher, get a server (and some earplugs, server chassis usually have really big, loud fans).

 

If a restart doesn't count as turning it off then . . . a few months? I live on my laptop--it sits on our coffee table full-time.

I don't see why it would terribly increase wear on components if it's in standby or hibernate maybe half the time.

 

Hmmmm, does Hibernation count as turning it off? When I move my notebook around from classes, I hibernate it.

Lets see, longest was probably the mid Janurary til exams in late May, my V6 was on that whole time. Of course, I have invested in a notebook cooler and I tend to clean my notebook bi-weekly.

 

Yes, hibernation counts of turning it off. The system is simply restoring the system state from disk when it starts up. Since it's off for the most part, there's little to no wear on the system if you don't count the batteries.

Standby mode technically does not count as turning off, since the system components are not powered down, they're being put in power conservation where minimum amounts of power are being applied to keep it from forgetting what it was doing earlier. This still generates heat and wear, but not anywhere near as much as when the system is up.

Since hibernation does not cause the system uptime timer to reset, it isn't really a good measure to tell you how many consecutive hours a system has been left running.

 

mine is always on, but when i'm at work or sleeping the lappy is on sleep mode. but it's always downloading music, and uploading ringtones constantly.
i now have a fan pointing on the lappy all the time, that keeps the lappy fan from running and wear out.

 

Laptop: Toshiba Satellite 1115-S103(see sig for specs for this ancient laptop)


Longest for me so far is 17 hours(includes a couple of hours in standby mode while i was on my bro's desktop doing some gaming). I consider it a lot since it is a 4 year+ old laptop(i should probably get a new laptop ) and i plan to keep it on for 16+ hours a day untill my freshman year in college starts in September (wonder if it will last that long )

 

A8Js,

8 or 9 days....

 

M2400N:
2-3 weeks I think...

 

Months. Used as a small server for backups. No fan in this laptop. Died of harddrive failure, but not from overheat I guess.

 

About 4 or 5 months with my old HP ZT3000

 

my friends you are all amateurs : D this summer i forgot my fathers old compaq presario in the garden(it was pluged in) and 3days after that i came noticed it was there 3 all days under really intense sun,it was literaly frying i could not touch it and i couldnt see anything in the screen and it was working,i puted it inside the house turned off,after a few hours turned it on and guess what,everything was perfect lol..glad its my fathers NB and i dont care about it,if it was mine i was in a really big depresion

 

Mine usually runs 24/7 at full CPU load for folding@home. I don't see how this is a problem as the heat is manageable (after undervolting the CPU) and the parts most likely to break aren't stressed at all by leaving it on, except maybe for the fan.

 

I do the same, haha (except the undervolting part.)

 

I've always been wary of leaving my computer on 24/7 because of overheating and massive amounts of dust buildup around the fan (referring to desktop). Is it worse to turn off the computer whenever not in use rather than just leaving it on? I usually turn off my desktop during the night but let it run during the day (bout 5-10 hours.) Is it safe to do the same thing for my new notebook?

 

doesnt a computer take more wear and tear every time you turn it off and turn it back on?

 

My Old powerbook is never off. The last time it ran out of battery was 2 months ago. Nothing can kill a powerbook.