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Originally Posted by AbyssUnderground
People who are saying "You can't run a laptop 24/7 its not designed for it" or "laptop as a server, it will die", have you ever actually tried it?
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Nope.
But I know of two cases where they did. And they died.
1. A laptop was being used by a fairly major OEM (who since went bust - says a lot) as their web server. The reasoning being it had a battery - that's like a UPS, right! Anyway, it died, and took their website down. Duhh.
2. At work, we have a bunch of plasma screens in reception showing all sorts of random stuff. Somebody decided to run one on a laptop sat on a shelf. It overheated horribly, and fried the motherboard. Binned the whole thing as I recall.
So those are two cases I can name, and I'm aware of other cases.
Laptops are not designed to run 24/7. They get far too hot. Besides, running them on the mains all the time isn't clever, as it kills the battery. Some will run without the battery, but that doesn't solve the heat problem you'll get anyway.