April 1, 2008
My new record: running a Mac for 52 days continuously
I have a Macbook Pro which I’m rather proud of. Aside from working it extremely hard and having stacks of applications open simultaneously, it travels with me from my room to the house to the Drakensberg to all around Pretoria, so I’m continuously putting it to sleep and waking it up again, often for 10 minute periods. It’s performed flawless for the last month – the last time I had to reboot/restart it was almost 2 months ago.
According to a cool little Terminal command – uptime – my Mac has been running for:
22:53 up 52 days, 9:41, 4 users, load averages: 0.75 0.91 0.89
This is a personal record and I felt I had to share it with everyone who should know better than to check their rss feed every hour. Go and do something. In the real world. Talk to someone. Without using a chat client. Go on – it’s less scary than you think!
Comments(2)
Roger Saner is a web platform developer (using 
Hi Roger
I’m afraid your record time is only half of mine… and I’m certain I could have exceeded four months if I wasn’t prompted to do a security update and reboot! Anyhow, great blog! Stop giving them windows users tips – the tip should be “Get a Mac for goodness sake!”
Har har! Windows is a necessary evil, Dale! Now go out into the real world and hug a tree!