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- From: cording@sorokin.anu.edu.au (Dean Cording)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
- Subject: Re: Do laptops need screensavers?
- Date: 18 Nov 92 12:05:24 GMT
- Organization: Australian National University
- Lines: 26
- Message-ID: <cording.722088324@sorokin>
- References: <BxM9EK.17y@csfb1.fir.fbc.com> <1992Nov12.221547.314@cis.uab.edu>
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- hyatt@cis.uab.edu (Robert Hyatt) writes:
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- >In article <BxM9EK.17y@csfb1.fir.fbc.com> uunet!csfb1!jbrock writes:
- >>As I understand it, the purpose of a screensaver (aside from looking
- >>pretty) is to prevent a static image from being "burned in" to your
- >>screen. The flat laptop screen in its many varieties is a very
- >>different animal from the full sized PC monitor. Does it share the
- >>"burning in" problem?
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- >No it doesn't, don't worry about the LCD "burning in".... on a CRT, the
- >phosphor can slowly burn and "store" an image if it is left on long enough.
- >Not so for our laptop/notebook/etc. machines
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- However, phosphor do suffer from burning in. We have a Toshiba 3200 with
- a phosphor screen that is used for the Lanalyzer on our network. It
- has the display pretty heavily etched into the screen.
- >--
- >!Robert Hyatt Computer and Information Sciences !
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