Laptops

[Merlot Joe]

Does it hurt to leave a laptop on 24/7/365 if you have it plugged into 120v?

MY daughter just bought one and thats how she plans on using it.

Joe.

[Cherbunny]

My dad keeps his plugged in and turned on 24/7 and he's an engineer.

Mine is plugged in and on most of the time.

I think she'll be ok.

Cher

[Ardbeg... innit]

Agree! Only potential down side is if you have NiCad batteries and disconnect the thing periodically and that stupid battery memory thing crops up. If the batteries are NiMH, no problem mon... or, like the other thread... go 240v 3 phase!!

[BB Refusing To Login]

There is a known issue with IBM Thinkpads where if you leave the laptop plugged in with the battery in order to recharge, you should immediately remove it after it is fully charged. Otherwise, under continuous use, the battery may never fully recharge in subsequent attempts (i.e., the little icon in the system tray will never display all the way at 100%). Whether this will be corrected when IBM fully transitions its laptops to Lenovo remains to be seen.

[Chicago Jake]

I leave my Compaq plugged in and turned on all the time, when I'm not travelling that is. No problems, mon.......Jake

[Merlot Joe]

Thanks you everyone, I didn't know and I didn't want to see her new laptop fry.

Joe.

[Robin Hood]

As long as it has plenty of air flow, it should be fine. The main thing with laptops, the processors tend to burn out because the heatsink get blocked by dirt, etc. If she is going to leave it on all the time, I would reccomend removing the battery except when she is going to to be using it mobile. She may also want to close the lid as to shut off the monitor, LCD monitors in laptops are suseptable to having pixels die in them when left on for long periods of time.

[Babbling BB]

On a number of models, there's also usually a special Function Key combination that will force it into sleep mode so you don't have to close the lid to shut off the monitor.

[Cherbunny]

Geez...even my old Sony Vaio laptop drifts off to sleepy-land

[jdmcowan]

You might also want to consider the operating system. If she'll be running windows, she will definitely want to do a full shut down on a frequent basis to clear out all the little hidden problems that windows builds up so quickly.

[Merlot Joe]

jdmcowan said:

You might also want to consider the operating system. If she'll be running windows, she will definitely want to do a full shut down on a frequent basis to clear out all the little hidden problems that windows builds up so quickly.

That's a damn good idea. Will pass it on.

[Robin Hood]

jdmcowan said:

You might also want to consider the operating system. If she'll be running windows, she will definitely want to do a full shut down on a frequent basis to clear out all the little hidden problems that windows builds up so quickly.

I concur, even though I have most of my computers running full time, a reboot is in order about twice a month. Now the Linux machines, that is another story, I know of a Linux server that has been running for over 4 YEARS It has had hardware upgrades, and software upgrades, that is the beauty of Linux, you never have to reboot EVER!!

[Ardbeg... innit]

I managed to keep a Windows 2000 running, with active daily use, for 52 days before a reboot was needed. I was quite pleased with that and still use W2000 on my workhorse machine.

[Irish Stu]

I just close mine when I've finished with it, and probably have to reboot it every couple of weeks or so when it starts acting up.

Simon