Treating laptop like a desktop bad?
Hey, I have a MBP and I use it for school, but I keep it on all night for downloading purposes. I'm wondering is that bad to treat a laptop like a desktop? Cause I've been thinkings its probably not a good idea cause laptops arent ment to be on all night long or anything.
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I'm not sure if this is any more of a problem than the issues of keeping any computer on for days at a stretch. Which is very little, and mostly manifests itself as slightly lowered performance, because the cache can get full. Your MBP might actually end up being too hot, but that is more of a problem that can be solved with a laptop stand.
Remember, though, that an iMac is basically built out of laptop parts, and that works fine.
I have no idea what on earth you could be downloading, but don't discuss or ask others to aid in illegal activity.
If you have ?no idea what on earth? he could be downloading why are you making assumptions and commentary about him potentially doing something illegal?
Extract foot from mouth. Lather. Rinse. Repeat.
OS X is also built off of unix code, which is used in servers etc.. which stay on continuously. So don't worry about leaving the computer on. Just enjoy it.
Hey, I have a MBP and I use it for school, but I keep it on all night for downloading purposes. I'm wondering is that bad to treat a laptop like a desktop? Cause I've been thinkings its probably not a good idea cause laptops arent ment to be on all night long or anything.
I'd seriously recommend to turn the brightness of the screen all the way down when the computer is 'idling'. The backlight of your screen and hence the brightness of your screen degrades over time. I also noticed that my harddisk gets noisier over time.
If you're concerned about the heat, put two erasers under the back of your MacBook (left and right side).
There are some basic guidelines here:
http://www.apple.com/batteries/notebooks.html
If you're concerned about the heat, put two erasers under the back of your MacBook (left and right side).
Fan Control is a little more consistent in cutting down the heat.