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I need a cheap netbook for "router" functions. [OS: OpenBSD or Scientific Linux]. So once I configure it I will put it somewhere down for YEARS. The Question is: What is the lifespan difference of the netbook if it will be [for years]:
I don't think there will be heat problems, because netbooks doesn't produce too much heat. But will ex.: a closed lid [for years] decrease the lifespan of a netbook?
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Depends on the parts inside the laptop - if it uses a high end graphics card, 7200RPM hard drive and more, there could be a heat build up. If it is just using standard netbook type parts, I highly doubt there will be an issue. As for lifespan, having high heat for a prolonged period of time can cause flex in some components which can shorten the lifespan - but, it has to get very hot. I doubt closing the lid will cause that many problems - just make sure the machine has enough room around the vents/fans for good airflow. | |||
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He probably is referring to heat-issues on a netbook depending certain design - constraints. Before buying a netbook for using it as a router I would check if certain air-vents are covered when the lid is closed. Some Net/Notebooks have an air-cooling system which is designed in such a way that the air-vents are more or less closed when the lid is closed as the manufacture didn't assume that the laptop would be ran with the lid closed. Those are obviously a bad choice as in the long run the lifespan would be decreased. However, I am not quite sure if you can use a netbook as a router as most netbooks (at least all I can think of the top of my head) only have one ethernet port. As far as I know most linux/unix-y-router distros: ipcop, smoothwall, pfsense require at least 2 ethernet interfaces: one for wan, another one for lan. May I suggest that instead of a netbook you might be better of using a Intel Atom D Mainboard (like: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813121442) and installing another NIC. The power usage should be quite simliar compared to a netbook as the cpu and chipset are more or less the same. Hope this helps | ||||
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the closed lid would actually help to reduce the power consumption of the system, Hence it might increase the lifespan of notebook. directly, there isnt any cor-relation between the lid being closed or open, because only the power consumption is decreased, when the lid is closed (as the LCD display is turned off when lid is closed), so lifespan of LCD might be large. | |||
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I also agree with the fact that the lifespan is gonna be increased, but keep in mind that having a netbook with the closed lid can make it become overheated. This can happen when the netbook will use more of the CPU and such, and probably this could lead to a faulty netbook and or random reboots because of the BIOS's protection. | |||
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