How Long Has Your Computer Been On For??

[®îçhå®?]

You can use the iStat Pro widget (free) to look up these different things and it gives a nice representation of everything about your computer.

Mine has been on for 4 days, 4 hours and 46 minutes as of writting this post. It has also gone through 92 battery cycles.

What are your stats??

 

[BigPrince]

My record on my iMac g5 is about 38 days or so.

 

[Zwhaler]

Hold up, you mean on for its whole life or just today? My iMac doesn't have a battery so I can't tell you the battery cycles, for it has been on for 3 hours and 3 minutes just today.

 

[®îçhå®?]

Hold up, you mean on for its whole life or just today?

Since the last time it got switched on


And 38 days on an iMac!!! I think that my record on my MB is about 25 as i only shut it down when i need to restart to install something.

 

[stevep]

Don't know. Don't really care either, except that it will only be on for as long as I use it, and definitely not overnight. We've signed up to the Kyoto agreement and I live very close to the sea......

 

[Eraserhead]

It's been on since this morning, and I have used 78 cycles since the beginning of October (when I got it).

 

[SMM]

It is rare when my computers are not turned off each evening. I mainly do this for environmental stewardship reasons. Where I live, most of our electricity comes from hydro-electrical (dams). The more electricity used, the more water is retained in reservoirs, and not released into the rivers. Without those instream flows, habitat for fish and other wildlife is jeopardized. (yes, I know this is off-subject, but a little plug for Mother Earth does not hurt).

 

[SamIchi]

5days 20hrs.

 

[someguy]

Isn't there already a "post your uptime" thread of some sort?

 

[MacNut]

11 days 17 hours 5 mins.

 

[®îçhå®?]

Isn't there already a "post your uptime" thread of some sort?

I did a search, albeit a quick one and found nothing.

 

[ich1ban]

14 hours so far!

 

[obeygiant]

Its intersting to see how people use their macs. I always shut down after using it, I think it keeps the os free of cobwebs.

 

[Queso]

11 days 4 hours on the iMac, although it's asleep when I'm not using it. The PowerBook is shutdown for the weekend at the moment.

 

[0007776]

7 days 20 hours and 37 minutes

 

[someguy]

I'm pretty sure it has been done before.

The following threads (just a few out of many that exist) were either closed or wastelanded:

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/183025/
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/162380/
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/127543/
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/119152/

 

[XIII]

27 days 14 hours 53 minutes currently.

 

[Sherman Homan]

Wind storm knocked out the power long enough for a UPS initiated shut down, so only 3 days 2 hours 47 mins!

 

[EricNau]

It is rare when my computers are not turned off each evening. I mainly do this for environmental stewardship reasons. Where I live, most of our electricity comes from hydro-electrical (dams). The more electricity used, the more water is retained in reservoirs, and not released into the rivers. Without those instream flows, habitat for fish and other wildlife is jeopardized. (yes, I know this is off-subject, but a little plug for Mother Earth does not hurt).

You'll find that putting the computer to sleep uses practically the same amount of power as turning it completely off. For an iMac, it's drawing less than 5 watts while sleeping... this is probably less than your TV uses when completely off.

 

[jsw]

I'm pretty sure it has been done before.

The following threads (just a few out of many that exist) were either closed or wastelanded:

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/183025/
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/162380/
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/127543/
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/119152/

I'd hate to break precedent.