ben robison
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Rebooting is standard procedure for nearly every computer I own or have ever owned. I’ve noticed however that whenever I have to reboot my Mac, it makes me mildly angry. I’ve become accustomed to running my six standard applications (Firefox, Mail, Adium, iCal, iTunes, and NetNewsWire Lite) all the time. I literally never turn them off. When my computer goes in my backpack, it’s sleeping and ready to go at a moment’s notice.
Uptime is something that people usually are proud of when they talk about servers, but in my own little world, I started taking pride in my laptop uptime. The latest security update from Apple forced me to restart my computer, but prior to that, I had achieved a short month of uptime.
My father-in-law just announced his anger at Microsoft again, but this time it was enough that he wanted to go Mac. Freezing and restarting is one of his major gripes. When I shared this little screenshot with him he was stunned speechless.
My uptime has been pretty close to 28 days on my Dell… I doubt my computer runs as nicely as yours does after having gone that long, but it can do it!
In no way am I saying my Dell is better than the MacBook Pro (I’m running a machine that was only $1100 a year and a half ago, the hardware is trash by comparison), but I thought it was fun to try and keep up.