I turn mine off at night. And when I am using it; I use my laptop cooling stand that I just bought and I LOVE it.....
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The laptop will probably be fine so long as it's not 37C/100F in your room, but the HD may fail a little earlier than expected. My experiences may not be typical, your mileage may vary, blah blah, but I've found that the laptops I have used do not have very good cooling for the HDs.Comment
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get a notebook cooler
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i leave mine on 247...Comment
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eh.. Notebook coolers are not necessary IMO if you have a half-decent laptop. E.g. not whatever the cheapest HP/Dell/Acer/whatever you grab.
No need to shut down the laptop either. Your power saving features should automatically shut down the hard drive and such after inactivity.
The only thing that is truly "limited lifetime" on a laptop is the screen backlight and to a lesser extent inverter. Just shut the lid when you're not using it.
I keep my laptop on 100% of the time, save for 30 minutes or so while in transit to the office each day. At night, it sits on my bed closed.
And yeah, I abuse the living crap out of it. Thinkpads are the only thing I will even consider using these days, everything else just falls apart within a year.Comment
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I also leave the battery in mine.. Been over a year now, and I still have within 20 minutes the same run-time as when I first got it (5.5 hours or so of typical use). Granted, it's probably better to remove - but again, decent laptop with some smart charging logic should help you out there as well.Comment
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I leave my PC's running 24/7. In fact one has been on for pretty much 9 years straight. No hard drive failures, but I have them set to stop after 1 hour of no use. The one thing that is sure to go bad earlier is the power supply fan.
As for laptops, I shut mine off. I'm leery of the one and only fan. If that fails while you are asleep I'm not sure what might happen.Comment
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laptops are way more sensible than regular PC`s.I turn off my laptop every night and sometimes even during the day.Comment
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my PC runs 27/4 I just restart it from time to time
but I turn off my laptop every night cos in my previous laptop HD & fan failed in a year of non-stop workComment
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