OT: What is a reasonable life for a laptop regarding the SOGA?

Total elapsed time between reboots.

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The Natural Philosopher
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The time between reboots and/or system crashes. They have no meaning for most users as the users turn the computers on/off to save power. Linux users like to claim their machines run for months at a time.. presumably wasting loads of power for 99% of the time. Windows/mac users with laptops just shut the lid and let it hibernate.. something linux tends to struggle with. The systems I worked on had uptimes measured in years, but they were telephone exchanges and lives depend on them.

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dennis

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember "BigWallop" saying something like:

Thousands of hard drives used 24/7 just keep going, way past the five/six year mark. Once they get a bit old, stopping and starting them seems to be a bad idea, though. Otoh, I've seen plenty of lightly used ones peg out before they should have - various makes.

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Grimly Curmudgeon

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