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#1
April 17th, 2004, 12:08 PM
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| How long do you go before rebooting? I was interested in seeing how long most of you go before restarting. Does it make a big difference, especially when running apps like Photoshop, Dreamweaver, etc.? On my Winbloze machine I have to reboot it about once a day (I use it a lot) and I have 384 MBs of RAM on a P4 processor.
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April 17th, 2004, 12:10 PM
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| I have a PC at home (my 15" Powerbook G4 1GHz will be here by Friday) and I have to admit that I practically never have to reboot my PC. I reboot whenever there's a critical update, but that's about it.
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April 17th, 2004, 12:18 PM
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| Must be nice, but I'm sure all that RAM (768 MBs) helps out a lot. I run a ton of stuff like Illustrator, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Outlook, Firefox, Word, and more. I start to notice my system getting sluggish after using it for 10 hours or so then I reboot and it's a lot faster (and I just reformatted it 2 months ago).
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#4
April 17th, 2004, 12:30 PM
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| Not for any particular reason, but my laptop rarely gets rebooted except between updates and occasional funkiness from applications (Yahoo Webcam comes to mind). It's pretty amazing that I can sleep/wake the laptop without any issues at all, runs all sorts of apps without it even blinking. We've come a long way...
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#5
April 17th, 2004, 12:36 PM
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| Almost never reboot, unless I've downloaded an update, or run a program such as Maintain. I use my iBook(s) for design at home, Photoshop, In Design, etc, without problems. For your PB and what you say that you use it for, more ram would help your cause out. And instead of rebooting, have you tried repairing permissions instead? Or running a program such as Maintain or Cocktail?
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April 17th, 2004, 01:11 PM
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| minimon report: uptime 12 day, 5:09 tibook here
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April 17th, 2004, 03:15 PM
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| My OS X machine never gets rebooted unless an update requires it. It's gone 2 months without a restart before, and runs just fine from the second it boots up for as long as it's running. It's set to sleep the display after 15 minutes, and sleep the system after an hour. I log out when I'm not using it. I'll reboot it to run Linux or OS X Server or something, but I never have to reboot it to restore performance issues. Specs in the sig.
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