At 8:04 PM -0700 7/25/01, Daniel James wrote:
> > on another subject i would like to know how powering your monitor through
>> your mac would reduce its life by 30%. I am an electronic technician in
>> the navy and i have never heard anything like that about any kind of
>> equiptment, be they computers radio transmitters or radars. I am very
>> intersted in getting this information, and finding out if this is from
>> experiance or you just repeating what someone else told you. Thus being
>> able to figure out if i should put any faith in it.
>
>My guess would be that you are putting a heavy load on your Mac's power
>supply. That and (someone could probably clear this up for me) when
>the monitor first powers on, there appears at least to be a "surge" of
>power drawn (although that could simply be the process of degausing).
>
>I've got one of those power cords that would power my monitor directly
>from the Mac, but I don't use it. I'd rather see my power supply last
>longer. Besides, if you've got a Energy Star compliant monitor, you
>can just plug it into your favourite power source (wall, power strip,
>gerbil-driven generator) and leave it powered on. It detects the lack
>of video signal from the computer, and reduces it's power draw to
>something on the order of a couple of watts.
>
>> -- "Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?"
>>--George W. Bush
>
>The kids 'is', but our president apparently 'are' not. Brilliant quote :)
Although there could very well be some subtle electronic interference
caused by hardware plugged into this socket, I'd like to give the
benefit of the doubt to the engineers at Apple who have spent so much
energy, over many years, to bring us computers that are extremely
reliable. I would assume that if the monitor A/C socket had any
chance of causing stability problems, they would have removed it long
ago.
_
Andrew
"I think we all agree, the past is over."
George W. Bush
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