Does turning the computer off and on every day reduce its lifespan? Turning off your computer every day or leaving it on all the time increases its lifespan? While turning off your computer at the end of the day really means you are exposing it to additional wear and tear, in fact, the actual wear comes from the act of safely shutting down the computer, not when you turn it on later. Just as the internal combustion engine in cars is subject to increased wear during start-up due to the high levels of friction created by moving parts, a personal computer is subject to a similar type of start-up wear. However, this is directly proportional to the multitude of mechanical parts inside the computer. In other words, modern computers have almost no moving parts, except for a few fans and the hard drive, which is now rare. However, there may still be wear with the inrush current given to the circuits. Because electronic circuits consisting of indicators, capacitors and transformers draw a ...
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