whats your record uptime of a thinkpad?

i'm comparing with other brands like sager, it seems non of the guys has left it up enough to test the stress

 

I have a T60 that has been up for 6 months are so.

 

LOL...Well hows that for a stress test?

I normally make it a habit to reboot mine at least once every three days. But I do heavy gaming etc.

 

Whoa! Must be hibernating like a bear.

I'm on the same boat as Hackez. I do some heavy-loaded gaming (Oblivion GOTY) and I treat my notebook like my desktop I suppose, except that I leave my notebook on sleep a lot. I shut it off overnight though. Is there something negative about booting your system too much?

 

I used to do a full shutdown everytime i use the computer when I had XP, but now with vista I just shut it off when I go to sleep...so 1 day or so..

 

I heard there is a new Nvidia Geforce 8800M for notebook thats just released and its crazy good for laptop graphic. and got DX10. If i were you i'd get a xps or something i think thinkpads are more for work..... but thats just me

 

i can leave my thinkpad on AC for weeks at a time, however if i switch to the battery, it probably won't go more than an hour without a BSOD.......assuming i'm running firefox.

 

When you restart your computer it allows the OS to refresh in addition to the hardware. Significant spurts of uptime can slowly wear down the performance of your laptop. Of course it is not permanent and can be cured with a simple reboot and does not often show any symptoms unless you do heavy load applications like Oblivion.

 

I've had Smoothwall running on a 7 year old Dell for about 5 months straight. Unfortunately, it went down once because it needed an update.

I know it's not a Thinkpad, but just a cool fact.

 

So restarting constantly wouldn't accelerate degradation of hardware components or anything right?

 

I leave my Thinkpad on every 7 days or so then restart once. Turn it of after 5-6 months for moving or take it to school. Last time, I had it on for 6.5 months.

 

No it wont.

My T61 I got earlier in the year, pretty much lives on the dock and is on night & day and has been now for a few months.