Re: Do you still need screensavers these days?
In a message dated 1/31/99 10:48:39 AM Central Standard Time,
snmjohnson@iclub.org writes:
> The best screensaver these days is the monitor's power button. You don't
> really
> have to worry about image burn with today's color CRT monitors (and I would
> think this would be doubly true for LCD monitors). It's usually not a good
> idea
> to leave a monitor on all the time, as for a CRT the electron guns will
> eventually wear out, and there's no sense in having them going if no one is
> using the monitor, and as for an LCD I suspect there exists an analogous
> situation. I don't know how an LCD monitor is put together, so I really
don'
> t
> know.
>
As for laptops, shutting down the monitor isn't exactly feasible. Also,
evidently, the screens laptops use have lives based (at least in part) on the
number of times they are started/stopped.
Jay
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