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tony sayer wrote:
> In article <k4fn6h$1op$1@dont-email.me>, William Sommerwerck
> <grizzledgeezer@comcast.net> scribeth thus
>> "Tom Biasi" <tombiasi@optonline.net> wrote in message
>> news:506b5d4b$0$9802$607ed4bc@cv.net...
>>> On 10/2/2012 5:21 PM, jim stone wrote:
>>>> Not being able to find a small internet radio to buy we liked,
>>>> we got a mobile phone with which we link with WiFi to a modem
>>>> router, and use it as an internet radio.
>>>> Keeping the phoned plugged into its charger all the time, we are
>>>> using it to play *all-day* background classical music through an
>>>> amplifier and speakers.
>>>> Since the phone has no "moving parts" unlike a computer, we are
>>>> wondering if this continuous playing all day of the phone is going
>>>> to shorten its working life ?
>>> Using anything shortens its working life.
>> Not so. There aren't any obvious failure mechanisms in solid-state devices
>> (other than dopant migration in high-power output transistors).
> 
> Yes interesting that especially in high power RF transistors, 'tho I
> believe in such cases its paralled emitter connections that start going
> open circuit...
> 
>> It's also true that most mechanical devices "like" moderate use. Letting
>> anything mechanical "sit" most of the time will probably cause it fail
>> sooner than if receives regular use.
>>
>> It's now possible to build computers without moving parts (other than the
>> optical drives). My new computer has a solid-state "hard disk", and you
>> wouldn't believe how fast it boots up, or how fast programs start to run.
>>
>>
> 
> Indeed they do just got one, not in this machine but very fast indeed.
> They still it seems fail though...
> 
Boot times are largely a function of what gets loaded prior to showing a 
"desktop". Different OS'es have different boot times. Check out Haiku 
OS. I boot to a "desktop" in under a minute.

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