Amazing Mac Uptime: 454 Days
Oct 21, 2010 - 7 Comments
Just when I thought my personal record uptime of 160 days on a MacBook server was exciting, one of our readers blew my uptime away… by almost a year!
Stephan Burlot‘s personal record uptime? A staggering 454 days with his iBook. Apparently the iBook monitors his homes electrical usage and runs Mac OS X 10.4.11.
If you didn’t know, uptime is just a measure of how long your computer has been running without a system reboot. A long system uptime is a geeky badge of honor of sorts, and obviously a nice sign of system stability. You can check your Mac uptime by typing ‘uptime’ into the Terminal.
I wonder what the last patch was installed on that mac.
I like the uptime game too. I manage lots of unix servers and have my own macs but patches take a front seat for me and often a reboots required so I stopped careing. especially since I’ve seen a win 2000 server with only “sp1″ on it be up for over for over 4 years at one company I worked at. i turned white haired that day when i found it.
I can imagine all the dust that builds up on the heat sink over all that time!
Wow, and I’m excited with two weeks…
I have a machine here that has an uptime of 462 days.
and i’m happy with 6 days
My MacBook’s battery gave out 41 days ago and I have had it plugged in since then and guess what? No crashed, no need to reboot- and I use it all the time for hours on end!
I didn’t know anybody kept track of such things. I have no proof but I had my 14 ibook running none stop for over 2 years close to 3.