or just schedule your computer to turn on a few minutes before you normally would use it. you can also utilize the wake on feature if your motherboard supports it.

or you can get gigabyte's iRAM and boot instantly:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...9&q=i-mesh+ram

Guilty as charged - my computers run 24/7 with occasional reboots - but then, a couple of them are used as servers so need to be on 24/7. I can tell you that my computers run for years without problems. My roommate, who turns his off whenever he's not using it, has to replace his hard drive a whole lot more often.

that iram video is sick... that thing must be a screamer.

I leave my comp on for a week at a time, heh it will start slowing down by then! :)

what are you running?

are you saying with the hard drive thing that it's due to him turning off the computer more often?

I don't see how this is the case since your computers probably aren't actively using the disk spun up all the time (though maybe more than his).