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Subject: Re: off-topic How many leave their computers running constantly?

Author: Bo Persson

Date: 10:56:00 01/25/00

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On January 25, 2000 at 13:13:05, John Warfield wrote:

>
>just curious, do most people leave their computers running 24 hours a day, or do
>most shut it off?. I shut mine down every night , but I hear it is better to
>keep it running


I turn off my home computer at night, becuase it's easier to sleep when it is
silent.  :-)


Seriously, at work we turn the desktop computers off at night, but leave the
servers running all the time. This doesn't seem to affect the lifetime, as most
of them are scrapped when they are deemed too slow, not because they stop
working.

Turning a computer on and off once an hour might affects its lifetime, but once
a day or so seems to have no effect.

You will probably *want* a new computer anyway, before your current is worn out
:-)



Bo Persson
bop@malmo.mail.telia.com




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