what I heard... is it true?

[Stephen Partington]

Well that could simply be the fact that they used substandard capacitors
and part for the ethernet, and as such it failed over time. manufactures
consider laptops to be pretty disposable after 2-3 years, any older and
they tend to get squirrely.

On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 10:51 AM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> That explains the fan but not the internet switch.
>
> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>
> On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 9:53 AM, Stephen Partington <cryptworks at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> At one time this was very true, and in some ways it can still be true.
>> parts like the fans wear out, and due to the space constraints in a laptop
>> this is more critical, and there are some thermal considerations to think
>> about as well. but as long as you are giving decent airflow around the
>> laptop, and you are prepared to swap a fan sooner than later it should have
>> no real impact on the hardware.
>>
>> I run mine for work 9+ hours straight and the previous one i had did this
>> for 4.4 years before it finally got weird enough to be replaced.
>>
>> I would most definitely enable power savings on your monitor because that
>> screan can suffer from burnout, and its not as easy to replace as a monitor.
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 9:37 AM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I read on another board that it was bad to leave a laptop on 24/7 Is
>>> that so? If it is I guess that is why my laptop is having problems!
>>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
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>>
>> Stephen
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A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from
rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button.

Stephen
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