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- Path: sparky!uunet!gatech!willis1.cis.uab.edu!hyatt
- From: hyatt@cis.uab.edu (Robert Hyatt)
- Subject: Re: Do laptops need screensavers?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.185834.4757@cis.uab.edu>
- Organization: University of Alabama at Birmingham
- References: <BxM9EK.17y@csfb1.fir.fbc.com> <1992Nov13.010708.23010@panix.com> <168A4DC6A.97994779@wsuvm1.csc.wsu.edu>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 18:58:34 GMT
- Lines: 29
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- In article <168A4DC6A.97994779@wsuvm1.csc.wsu.edu> 97994779@wsuvm1.csc.wsu.edu writes:
- >In article <1992Nov13.010708.23010@panix.com>
- >schuster@panix.com (Michael Schuster) writes:
- >
- >>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?
- >>
- >>An engineer at Matsushita's display labs debunked this stuff here
- >>this summer. You cannot shorten the lifetime of passive LCD displays using
- >>black-on-white vs. white-on-black, nor can you "burn in" a pattern
- >>by displaying it too long.
- >>
- >I have Toshiba T3100SX with Gas Plasme display, and you can most definately
- >burn the screen. (I know I've done it)
- >
- >
-
- I've got an old Toshiba 3100/20 that I've used as a home machine for 5 years
- plus with kids playing games, leaving it on overnite, etc. To this date,
- the display looks just like new.
-
-
- --
- !Robert Hyatt Computer and Information Sciences !
- !hyatt@cis.uab.edu University of Alabama at Birmingham !
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