I have often wondered though if using the screen curtain on battery power would give us increased battery life. Recently I had a power outage and I checked my battery level with screen curtain off. I then thought to turn on the screen curtain and I Checked the battery life again. It jumped up significantly. I can't remember exactly how much but I think more then an hour. Does this sound right to you folks?
This would mean that even though the power to the screen is still on the power consumption goes down significantly. If true it is at least a little bonus for blind mac book users. Eric Caron On Jul 28, 2010, at 1:36 AM, Bryan Smart wrote: > Yep. It doesn't turn off the screen, it only displays solid black. The > backlight is still on, using power, though. To prove that, get someone > sighted to look at the screen from an extreme angle (it will glow), or look > at the Apple logo on the back of the monitor (it is lit by the display > backlight, and will still glow). > > Bryan > > -----Original Message----- > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Mike Arrigo > Sent: Sunday, July 25, 2010 11:23 PM > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: screen curtain > > For saving the battery, rather than using the screen curtain, I would turn > the display brightness all the way down to 0, that will totally turn off the > screen lighting. > On Jul 25, 2010, at 4:20 PM, John D. Lipsey wrote: > >> Hello! >> >> I enable my screen curtain because A: I don't like people being able to look >> over my shoulder while I'm using my computer, and B: I assume that it saves >> a bit of battery power. However, I was under the impression that the screen >> curtain would behave like it does on the IPhone and reactivate whenever I >> turn on voiceover or my computer. Should this in fact be the case? Or is it >> normal to have to restart the screen curtain each time you restart >> voiceover/the computer? >> >> Thanks again for all the help. >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
