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Old 14th September 2007   #1 (permalink)
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Leaving Laptops on 24/7

No, I'm not going to be putting my laptop in a DC before anyone starts. .

Although I do intend to use my laptop as a testing server. Any particular reason why my laptop can't be left on 24/7? The battery is already dead so I'm going to take that out.

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Mine hasn't been off for about a month.
If in doubt, get a laptop fan tray (which is what I have, altho, its never on) but should be fine.
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I left my laptop on last night. It was a little warm but no warmer than it would be after a few hours use.

I'll leave it on for a few days and see how it goes. The laptop will be used quite heavily has it has a few VM's on it.
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I only have a laptop in the house, my IBM x40 was on constantly for the last 3 years. The fan needed replaced after about 2 years, and I gave it to my mate a few months ago, still going strong

The replacement x60 has been on for about 6 months now with no issues (*touches desk*)
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Good to know Paul. Laptops are usually fairly well designed so hopefully it won't be an issue.
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That sounds to be very interesting.But laptops are ment for mobility and using them for server will eliminate this option.If you do not carry your laptop anymore then no problem.
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I have a company laptop and no longer use this laptop in question.

Did want to sell it and buy a PC but new laptops are so cheap that it isn't worth selling now.
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I run a laptop at one office which runs the 'music on hold'. Thats all it does so it has practiaclly zero load but thats been running for around 4 years now. Rebooted once in a while but is running constant.

Provided it has pleanty of air circulating i cant see any huge issues provided this is something which can go down and not get you a P45
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I run a laptop at one office which runs the 'music on hold'. Thats all it does so it has practiaclly zero load but thats been running for around 4 years now. Rebooted once in a while but is running constant.

Provided it has pleanty of air circulating i cant see any huge issues provided this is something which can go down and not get you a P45
That's avery good example of making optimal use of an old laptop.
I'm a bit curious to know which operating system are you using on that laptop?
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Its a basic image of XP Pro running on a Compaq N610c. Though it has actually only been there just over 3 years after a bit more maths. But still not bad.
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Three years is a long time dude. My laptop went down within a month.
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Mines been on none stop for about 2 months, Its still running stable.
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After seeing how cheap these Dell PC's are, I'm going to try and sell the laptop and use a PC for the VM station.
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I leave my laptop on most of the time, unless I'm going somewhere where I need it, which isn't that often..

Generally it's left in the bedroom, I watch a film/some tv on it before I go to sleep, close the lid and sit it on the table and leave it until the next night..
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I've been using my old Compaq Presario laptop as a machine purely for Skype and leaving various graphs running. Uptime currently showing as 217 days. Runs perfectly.
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