yeah laptops are nice however they are not meant to remain on for extended periods of time nor host a server. and I highly doubt anyone will just leave their laptop sitting in one place, that totally defeats the purpose of a laptop.
Issues with leaving a laptop on 24/7 include overheating the cpu, burning out your fan, overheating the hd, other issues include the fact that it will be used for other things at the same time, heck hes running two different mmo servers , a webserver, mysql which requires a good hung of the processing power justto continuiously do all the queries in those two huge databases, the os which is most likely windows vista (which will eat up half his ram right there cause vista requires a minimum of 512 megs of ram jsut to run by itself and thats the home basic version ultimate requires alteast 1 gig all by itself minus the video ram since its shared) so lets see with mysql the webserver, the eqemu server, the wow server running all at once plus his os thats going to basicly destroy any kind of performance for more then one or two players on the servers at any one given time
And we arent including whatever else he uses it for while its running those servers.
Laptops are not meant for that kind of usage, bare minimum within a few months he will need to buy a new one ( Im guessing givent hose specs its probably a very low end dell since they match my old laptops specs almost to the letter could be an hp as well but its not a brand new one)
Plus the instability factor of him deciding hes going to take his laptop to work (or school) Or even starbucks bamn no more server lol
now for a home server a notebook is fine its private and doesnt need stability of not being well taken out and you can turn it off when ever cause you dont have to worry about all your users being on when you decide to bring it down or what not.
with those specs, and two mmo servers he wont be able to support more then a few people on them at a time without having serious lag issues because of the lack of available ram to do things like load new zones if your gunna run an mmo server its always best to do it with a machine taht A Is going to be there whether you wanna go out or not lol and b a system that can do nothing BUT run it unless your jsut looking to run a small private server that is or have a powerhouse laptop with a dual or quad core 2.8 gig or better, ram isnt so much an issue as the processor especially when your dealing with a database with 300k entries in one table mysql uses your processor for queries not your ram
if you want something that doesnt crash when the power goes out thats what UPS are for lol
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