> On December 11, 2013 at 1:59 AM Andrei POPESCU
> wrote:
>
>
> On Lu, 09 dec 13, 17:21:11, Steven Rosenberg wrote:
> > I don't see well-used laptops lasting longer than 5 years. Something's
> > bound to go wrong.
>
> What about not well used laptops? Seriously, as far as I recall my
> Thinkpad i
On Lu, 09 dec 13, 17:21:11, Steven Rosenberg wrote:
> I don't see well-used laptops lasting longer than 5 years. Something's
> bound to go wrong.
What about not well used laptops? Seriously, as far as I recall my
Thinkpad is already 5 years old. I had to replace the CPU fan twice and
the keyboar
On Mon, Dec 09, 2013 at 07:31:28PM -0500, Brad Alexander wrote:
> I remember reading a report in the mid-90s stating that one of the biggest
> life-shortening properties of powering on and off was heating and cooling
> of the hard drive bearings. Now, that said, I do not know how much change
> has
On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 8:21 PM, Steven Rosenberg wrote:
> I don't see well-used laptops lasting longer than 5 years. Something's
> bound to go wrong.
>
I still have an old PII Toshiba that still works. Now I haven't booted it
up in a couple of years, but everything was still functional.
On 12/9/2013 7:31 PM, Brad Alexander wrote:
On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 3:41 PM, Charlie mailto:aries...@skymesh.com.au>> wrote:
On Mon, 9 Dec 2013 15:27:15 +0100 Gian Uberto Lauri sent:
> I know that shutting down the machine saves electricity, but heating
> and cooling is the mec
On Mon, 2013-12-09 at 20:58 +, Ron Leach wrote:
> That was a serious problem with older
> Ni-Cad batteries; this and most modern laptops use Ni-MH or Lithium
> batteries and, so far, I have not heard that either of those have
> problems with recharge cycles.
All batteries fail after a while
On Tue, 2013-12-10 at 07:41 +1100, Charlie wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Dec 2013 15:27:15 +0100 Gian Uberto Lauri sent:
>
> > I know that shutting down the machine saves electricity, but heating
> > and cooling is the mechanical stress that hits the non-moving
> > components of your computer, computer that
I don't see well-used laptops lasting longer than 5 years. Something's
bound to go wrong.
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On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 3:41 PM, Charlie wrote:
>
> On Mon, 9 Dec 2013 15:27:15 +0100 Gian Uberto Lauri sent:
>
> > I know that shutting down the machine saves electricity, but heating
> > and cooling is the mechanical stress that hits the non-moving
> > components of your computer, computer that
On 09/12/2013 20:41, Charlie wrote:
7 years is not a long life for a laptop, I have heard of others that
are still working after 10 years on this list I think. They keyboards
on my laptops are pretty worn and they each only have 512 MB RAM but
otherwise work as when new but now running Debian Je
On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 07:41:48AM +1100, Charlie wrote:
>
> On Mon, 9 Dec 2013 15:27:15 +0100 Gian Uberto Lauri sent:
>
> > I know that shutting down the machine saves electricity, but heating
> > and cooling is the mechanical stress that hits the non-moving
> > components of your computer, comp
On Mon, 9 Dec 2013 15:27:15 +0100 Gian Uberto Lauri sent:
> I know that shutting down the machine saves electricity, but heating
> and cooling is the mechanical stress that hits the non-moving
> components of your computer, computer that turn off less often live
> longer.
I wonder if the above i
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