At night, do you turn off your computer/notebook or do you leave it running. It seem that my notebook can run hot, the exhaust (air out of the notebook) can seem hot sometimes. I normally turn it off at night, but leave it running all day (I have a docking station, so air does circulate under the thing). Anyway, was just curious about any of your opinions on the matter. I figured their would be quite a few computer people who might know.

Thanks,
Phillip

 

Mine runs 24/7, only online about 4 or 5 a day, though.

 

I participate in a distributed computing project that is searching for cures for diseases. So, I leave my PC running all the time.

But, there are some technical reasons for doing it too. IMO, heat cycling can weaken the mobo and it's hard on your disks. However, I do turn the monitor off.

 

I leave my tower on 24/7. I participate in SETI, but that's not the reason for my leaving it on.

I leave mine on for a couple of reasons. First off, electronics love to stay on all the time. No heat/cool cycle stress on components. Second, I like to hit the computer to see what's going on at all hours and it takes just too damned long to boot my scsi computer.

Monitor is on power saver, so it goes off automatically after 60 minutes.

 

ceramics like a cpu , ram . etc.. expand and contract with heat/cool cycles . over time this leads to stress cracks. this is bad . if i am not going to be home for an extended period of time i will turn my puter off . but other than that i leave it on all the time . only rebooting every couple of days .

 

At home I leave most all of my computers on 24/7 (File server, Win95 machine, Win2k machine). I have a Linux box that's on when I get the chance to mess with it (not often).

My laptop is cycled twice per day. On when I get to work in the morning, off when I leave. On when I get home and get on the 'net, off to pack it away for the next day.

Normally you'd like to leave your computer running 24/7, but laptops are a different beast. The nature of their purpose means they're off and on all the time for most people. Then, as you noticed, you have heat issues to deal with when trying to pack 10 lbs in a 5 lb sack. Not a lot of airspace for heat radiation - forced air becomes a lot more important.

 

I leave my desktop on 24/7 and it goes into sleep mode if it sits idle for more than an hour. If i'm not here on the weekends though, i turn it off.

I've heard it's better to leave desktops on all the time, but to turn laptops off because they get so hot.

 

i leave my laptop on 24/7 and online 24/7 (cable). no overheating problems here at all.

 

Don't have a laptop, but I turn all my desktops off at the end of the day (none are acting as a server.....if so, might leave it on). Never had a problem. However, you don't want to go turning your desktops on and off multiple times during the day.....as one poster mentioned, too much expansion/contraction of mobo components, and you could damage them. OTOH, we have a fair amount of folks here that leave them on all the time. Didn't help much, did I?

ernie

 

My mini tower and monitor at home have been on almost continuously since late 1997. The monitor has low power standby, so it does copnserve energy to some degree. I have lost several monitors at work during this same period of time, and I believe it's because they were shut down once or twice weekly, including all weekend long. Now I leave my work monitor on 100% of the time, even if I shutdown the PC.