I was just wondering if anyone leaves their laptop on 24/7

I was just wondering if anyone leaves there laptop on 24/7 and if its bad for the lap top or not

thx

 

Well, from my perspective, a laptop's individual components degrade with usage. your processor, gpu, memory, wont likely go bad, but your screen might develop dead pixels faster, your hdd might crash sooner, battery would go bad much faster. But those can be replaced easily, most new laptops can last a long time, but I wouldn't advise leaving it on when you don't have to. I rarely shut down my laptop, but when I'm not using it, it's in sleep mode.

 

I always shut down my laptop if I know I won't be using it in the next hour or two. Otherwise I close the lid and let it cool down on sleep mode.

 

I turn mine off or put it to sleep when I'm not using it. No point leaving it on if it's going to just sit there.

 

mines on 24/7. Your screen wont die sooner if you have that switched off via power management.

I'd agree that there is no point leaving it on for the sake of it but been having a few issues with my ssd on resume, ie my m14x thinks someone took it out.

Most things power down to a lower level when not in use unless you keep it in performance mode.

 

I never did the 24/7, but I used to have it on for 48hrs. But like niko2012 has said, it is not good to have something on nonstop. If you know that u going to be away, then try turn it off or enter the Hibernation state if you want a faster turn on.

Or modify the power plant to have it either go to sleep or Hibernation after a period of time, so then you can save both the laptop lifetime and electricity.

 

Here's what I do:
Wake up, get ready and go to school.
Come home, skateboard, turn laptop on.
Use laptop, eat dinner, shutting lid while not using, if I go somewhere I put it on hibernate.
Watch some Netflix before I go to bed, and then I either put it in hibernation or shut it off, and I make sure that I unplug the laptop while it hibernates or is off.

The battery will last longer if you don't use the battery when it can be plugged in, and it isn't plugged in when it isn't using battery (off).

 

Heres what I do:
Go to school
Come home
On straight for 6 hours
Off until I come home from school again


I typically shut the lid and put it into sleep alot. Most of the time its off though. On saturdays its on for about 14 hours straight, alot of gaming in between.




Really my point is that I think turning it off overnight is really best for it. I do sometimes leave it on for downloading something or rendering a video, but the majority is off.

 

I have 1 laptop upstairs that I don't put into standby or hibernate, because standby doesn't work and hibernate takes longer than shutting it down or restarting. I usually leave it on when I am awake, approximately 3pm - 7am and occasionally 3pm - 3pm.

My other laptop is on and off standby all the time. Its a toshiba petium M laptop, and for some reason the only laptop I've had that reliably goes into standby immediately when I shut the lid and comes on when I open it.

The toshiba is turned completely off about every 48 hours when it freezes.

I would never leave a slow or unreliable laptop running all the time, you can just hear it being stressed from hard drive indexing or crappy fancontrol. Yes, whenever a laptop is on the components are being stressed even if its just sitting there. Especially on some laptops, you might come back after a few hours and the GPU will be dead (could happen at any time, but just sayin).

 

Agreed with most people here.
My laptop is only on when I'm downloading something (IE: a game from steam that'll take hours)
Then weekends is when it's on from the moment I wake up till the moment I go to sleep.
I always have my monitor turn off though when there's no activity for 3-5 mins.

 

Might as well throw my usage in here

I mostly leave my laptop on my desk connected to power, 23" samsung 1080p monitor, keyboard and mouse and it stays on 24/7 but the screen shuts off after 5 minutes.

Unless I'm going somewhere that I'll need it, it's there, and it's on.

I treat it the same way I did my desktop, except that I can take it with me when I leave

Occasionally at night I'll put it to sleep so the lights on the two keyboards and mouse go out, but i usually leave it on.