Do you guys leave your lappys on??

Good question.

I do not leave my laptop on ANYMORE. My CPU overheated and it is going to cost me a lot to fix it. Granted, I bough a regular AREA-51m P4, not a P4m CPU but I learned my lesson. Technically you should be able to leave you lappy on because whoever hears of a CPU overheating for running 'flying through space' screensaver and Theoretically you should be able to leave your lappy on because most laptops giev you the option of port replicators so it can act like a desktop but it also depends if your CPU is running processes and/or you’re running SETI@home and stuff like that. My SENTIA never gets left on.

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i leave my laptop on 24/7. When i go to work i just close the lid and when i get to work i open it up again. My laptop has been running 3 weeks now and i only restarted last week due to computer updates.

The overheating problem was probably just a defect. I've never seen a modern laptop just die from being left on too long. There should also be a setting in the BIOS that causes your computer to turn off if for some reason it ever did get too hot.

I leave all my laptops/workstations on 24/7 i normally give them a restart either if there playing up or once every 3months

I do close my laptop screen which reduces the stress/heat caused beacuse the screen will turn off.(this is a setting in windows u need to do)

mine runs 24/7 - occationally a restart (it's Windows after all)

There shouldnt be any problem with leaving your laptop or any laptop on for any length of time. There are poeple in this forum that haven't turned off their laptop in years, and only restart if Windows forces it (installations, updates, etc). So Dukefrukem, I am going to aggree with ASFx and say that your processor was a faulty processor in the first place.

Second, If you just keep the thing cool, you should have nothing to worry about. Keeping your laptop on while it is in the case on a road trip across America is not a good idea. If you can get a laptop cooler and let that cool the laptop continuusly, you should be in good shape. If you dont want to do that or want to cool your lap even more, you can throw your laptop into Battery Mode which cuts your CPU speed down. This results in less heat produced. If you need to do something high performance, just throttle it up. This works excellent for overnight downloads.


Also, if something on your laptop dies from leaving it on too long, the company should be obligated to fix it unless they explicitly tell you that you can't leave your lap on for an extended period of time. If they dont, then it is implied that this scinario is calculated into their laptop design and if something fails because of that design, it should be considered a faulty design (something not your fault) and the broken part should be replaced free of charge.

Personally, I dont leave my laptop on because I have a desktop that does all that overnight downloading, video editing stuff. I also dont mind the 20 seconds it takes for me to start my lap.

mines always on. last time i shut mine down was sunday of last week. I guess I'm kinda lazy.

i use redhat. not windows though.

Oh I'm sure it was a defect. The fact of the matter is I paid 3 grand for a laptop that died after 2 years just by leaving it on. that should never happen i dont care where you buy your laptop from. I'm working it out through alienware now...lets see how good their customer support really is...

i keep my laptop on 24/7 ... though i make sure that i dont close the lid coz that way the heat gets trapped ..I recommend that u dont either...

I left my thinkpad on last night sitting on a fleece blanket while on (with the LCD off), and it was awfully warm this morning... I decided from now on im just gonna put it in standby...

Not sure if I want to keep my notebook on all the time. After 30min Far Cry sessions the bottom becomes searing hot.

well - i wouldn't wanna close the lid of my lappy. That would block one of the vent intakes and the heat build up might damage the LCD. But I didn't activate the option 'standby when lid closed' (I close it for quick relocation)

of course its okay... on my AREA-51m the LCD shuts off automatically when i shut the lid and I hook it up to a 21 inch monitor. What would be the point of having VGA/S-Video outputs on the back of a laptop if you cant shut the screen?

my SENTIA on the other hand...for some reason it does not have an option to have the screen shut off when you close the lid...it is on 24/7... unless you hit the Fun + F5 key...

i suggestu dont close ur lid.... as the heat coming from the keyboard,etc wont be able to escape..

ditto for all of my machines