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Well I am leaving my laptop on for long hours, for example by the time I'm writing this it has been on for more than 30 hours. Am I doing something wrong? I mean this is a laptop and I don't think it was designed for such long hours.
I there anything wrong in letting it on? And on I don't mean as idle... I mean I play big games like pro street, cod4, juiced 2, and at night i let it downloading, I downloaded like 10GB.
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Posted 01 March 2008 - 11:01 AM
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Posted 01 March 2008 - 11:36 AM
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Considering I haven't shut my laptop off (except for updates) since I bought it (1-2 years), no. As long as the machine's air vents aren't covered, it was designed to run for extended periods of time.
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Posted 01 March 2008 - 09:04 PM
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Posted 02 March 2008 - 04:49 AM
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Ow... I thought that I was stressing it too much.
Thanks for your replies.
Thanks for your replies.
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Posted 02 March 2008 - 05:52 AM
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If it gets toasty, you may want to get a laptop fan for it. Other than that, I see no problem.
My wife, an electronics expert, says you are stressing it. Laptops frequently don't have the ventilation to keep them cool enough to not damage the chips.
My wife, an electronics expert, says you are stressing it. Laptops frequently don't have the ventilation to keep them cool enough to not damage the chips.
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Posted 02 March 2008 - 06:44 AM
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I've always believed that laptops need to be shutdown more frequently than desktops simply because of the compact space and low flow of air ventilation. You should use your desktop for download so that it at least gets the night shift off.
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Posted 02 March 2008 - 08:24 AM
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I left mine downloading in the middle of the room with a fan pointing at it and came back 3 months later.For the last 5 years that i own it,i only shut it down on weekends when i go away (unless i have downloadings !)
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Posted 02 March 2008 - 10:31 AM
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Well after a night of downloading etc.. it is quite cool, and It has a fan at the back and at the bottom, plus it has quite a good amount of holes for ventilation (I can even see some of the chips on the mobo)
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Posted 02 March 2008 - 02:19 PM
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Acheron said:
I left mine downloading in the middle of the room with a fan pointing at it and came back 3 months later.For the last 5 years that i own it,i only shut it down on weekends when i go away (unless i have downloadings !)
Where did you go for 3 months and what were you downloading that would take 3 months??
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Posted 03 March 2008 - 01:23 PM
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^Well,the thing is that i study in a university that is in a different town of my own (about 250km away) so,when my first series of exams were done i had no reason to stay for the second one(we get 2 shots to pass a class) so i went back home to Athens but a DSL line is a terrible thing to waste so i put up a big list of torrents in that i also updated via a wonderful thing that is called remote access !
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Posted 06 June 2008 - 10:40 AM
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Yeah, a pretty good idea :)
But don't you think that it will need a reboot from time to time?
But don't you think that it will need a reboot from time to time?
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Posted 06 June 2008 - 11:12 AM
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