[ubuntu-in] Off Topic: Running Laptop/Desktop for a long time?

[Narendra Diwate]

On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 22:32, nagendra prasad <nagendra802000 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> This is just off topic, but I have just noticed that my laptop is running
> from 3 days and 2 hrs. My question is will it affect on my laptop's hardware
> compenets or not? Will it be harmful for a laptop or a desktop to run for a
> long time? I know it depends on temperature, but its raining from past 4
> days in Hyderabad so its pretty much cool here.
>

I dont think it will affect in any adverse way in the short and immediate
term, but long term yes. All components have a life span in running life and
you are using it if it left running. TV's are supposed to have a life of
10000 hours or so that i had heard long ago. But if you have good power
management that shuts down the monitor, winds down the hard disk and so on,
it should not make a perceptible difference.

On the other hand if its not doing anything why not suspend or hibernate
instead.
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