Although LCD screens can suffer from image persistence: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_persistence
Having said that, sleeping is a better solution than screen savers for both CRT burn-in and LCD image persistence. -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis On 8/5/07, Anne Robertson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello James, > > Only CRT screens are ruined by not using a screensaver. Your MacBook > will be fine. > > Cheers, > > Anne > > > On Aug 5, 2007, at 11:27 AM, James Jolley wrote: > > > Hi Anne, > > > > Right then, I have done this, but the big one to ask is will it > > possibly ruine my screen by not having it on? I am using a mac book > > laptop machine and I have an apple keyboard attached to it via USB. > > I know those screens on the laptops are LCD so I was just curious > > if it mattered. > > > > Regarding sleep, I disabled that also and tend to put my own mac to > > sleep whenever I am away from it with command, option, eject. > > > > -James- > > On 5 Aug 2007, at 08:42, Anne Robertson wrote: > > > >> Hello everyone, > >> > >> Unfortunately, when listening to a book or a podcast, there is no > >> activity on the screen, so if you set the Screensaver to come on > >> after the computer goes to sleep , it will still be activated at > >> these inconvenient times. The only solution is to set it to Never. > >> > >> HTH > >> > >> Anne > >> > >> > >> On Aug 5, 2007, at 9:07 AM, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis wrote: > >> > >>> On 4 Aug 2007, at 22:23, louie wrote: > >>>> The bother is my sighted wife will tell me that the screen is > >>>> flashing and I must fix it. > >>> > >>> And on 8/4/07, James Jolley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added: > >>>> Also, it is irritating when your listening to something and > >>>> VoiceOver > >>>> screams "Screnn saver is on" that isn't fun. > >>> > >>> Ah okay. In that case, screen savers provide no advantage over > >>> the Mac > >>> automatically sleeping; they're essentially power-wasting but > >>> screen-saving decorations. A simple solution would be to set the > >>> timeout for screen saver activation to be the same as or longer than > >>> the timeout for the Mac going to sleep. In effect, the screen saver > >>> will never be activated because the Mac will fall to sleep > >>> simultaneously or first. Here's instructions: > >>> > >>> 1. Go to Apple menu. > >>> 2. Open System Preferences. > >>> 3. Open Energy Saver. > >>> 4. Select the Sleep tab. > >>> 5. Under "Put the computer to sleep when it is inactive for", slide > >>> the slider to (for example) "1 hr". > >>> 6. Press the Screen Saver button. > >>> 7. Under "Start screen saver", slide the slider to "1hr". > >>> 8. Close System Preferences. > >>> 9. That's it. You're done! (in theory...) > >>> > >>> -- > >>> Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis > >>> > >> > >> > > > > > > >
