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    how many hours do you have your Vaio powered on every day?

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by bongwater, Feb 10, 2009.

  1. bongwater

    bongwater Newbie

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    how many hours do you have your Vaio running each day? (participate in the poll above)
     
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    bongwater, Feb 10, 2009
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  2. Wolf04

    Wolf04 Sony Fanatic

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    Does Standby count? :p
     
    Wolf04, Feb 10, 2009
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  3. SirRobin

    SirRobin Notebook Evangelist

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    My z is powered on in the office, in the evening, in the night - whenever it´s needed :-D
     
    SirRobin, Feb 10, 2009
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  4. DetlevCM

    DetlevCM Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    not sure - but its only really fully off when I sleep.... that's only a lot over the weekend...
    Including stand by its on about 18 hours every day - less or more, deopending on usage over weekends.
     
    DetlevCM, Feb 10, 2009
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  5. nixon

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    Mine is on for heavy use for 8+ hours a day for work.
     
    nixon, Feb 10, 2009
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    blazeboy84 Notebook Consultant

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    My vaio is on 12 hours a day if not more... However i have it on standby a lot of the time.
     
    blazeboy84, Feb 10, 2009
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    i turn it on once i get home at 4, and i leave it on till 12, on weekends i have it on all day
     
    Garmin, Feb 10, 2009
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    This is kinda hard to say. It depends on what I need to do on my laptops. One get as much as 12 hours of use per day while another get as little as 1 hour of use per week! :eek: For the moment though, I find myself using my SZ a lot more than my Z... :eek:
     
    SPEEDwithJJ, Feb 11, 2009
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    My FW11E run 24/7 . BTW I'm restarting it 3-4 times per month & my HDD died after one month.
     
    bigspin, Feb 11, 2009
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  10. arth1

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    It wakes up to do backups and check whether it should do a defrag every night, so it's hard to say.
     
    arth1, Feb 12, 2009
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    Usually more than 12 hours a day (from about 12 pm to around 2 or 3 am) but rarely more than 24 hours. However, during the night it is on standby/sleep and I rarely actually turn it off. Sometimes, the laptop would be "on" (including sleep) for more than 2 weeks, even without restarting.
     
    Wolf04, Feb 12, 2009
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    Mine is usually on 14-16 hours a day, so I voted for "all the time".
     
    ac500, Feb 12, 2009
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  13. Verseau

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    I leave my A290 on for 2-4 weeks at a time as I am *cough* "getting stuff" off the internet all the time.

    The only problem I have is that I only have 5gb left on a 100gb drive and a total of 800mb left on 600gb total on two external drives.

    The perils of acquisitive behavior.

    Anyway,

    I tend to pamper my FW190CTO and use it to play games and when I need a more portable laptop.

    So, a few hours a day for a couple of days then fully off for days at a time.

    BTW: games (older and the newest mid-level/graphics intesive) play great on it.
     
    Verseau, Feb 12, 2009
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