On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 5:05 AM, Jeff Miles <jmile...@charter.net> wrote:
> Ok, I have a b**ch here. Has anyone else had a problem with burn in > on their 24" intel iMacs? > I recently took mine in for repair or replacement. They told me it > was burn in and wasn't covered by the warrantee. I've owned this computer > "brand new" since 6/09. It is on most of the time. But I have been running > the screen saver. The burn in marks are very obvious and from running > Safari. The things that look like scratches line up perfectly with the > Safari window. > I find it hard to believe a decent monitor would suffer burn in like > this after only about 6 months. I have a clam shell ibook that's been on for > a couple of years strait and doesn't suffer this problem. In fact, I can't > remember seeing monitor burn in since I can't remember when. Maybe it was an > old CRT many years ago. > I constantly run most of my computers 24/7. I run screen savers on a > few. I do on the new one with problems. I use my pictures folder as a screen > saver. I like seeing pictures I've taken on vacation. I've found this to be > the best way to do so, or those vacation pics just get stored somewhere. > I'm rambling. I heard that maybe Apple had one manufacture for the > 20" and another for the 24". Am I the only one that's seen this? > > Aren't these LCD monitors? I didn't think that they could burn in. <quick google for lcd monitor burn in> Ah they call it persistance. Apple support recommends this method-quick version replace your screen saver image with an all white one. http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2807?viewlocale=en_US -- John Duncan Yoyo -------------------------------o) ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
