In a message dated 1/31/99 10:48:39 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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
