Turning brightness to 0 does turn off the display. Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info
On Aug 15, 2012, at 5:33 PM, Christopher-Mark gilland <clgillan...@gmail.com> wrote: > Is there a way to literally turn the display off? I don't mean set > brightness to 0 or turn on the curtain. I literally mean turn off the > display completely. > > This is a mid 2010 stocked 13 inch white macbook. > > Chris. > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Blouch" <cblo...@aol.com> > To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> > Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2012 5:19 PM > Subject: Re: Technically speaking, How Does Screen Curtain Actually Work? > > >> I should say that turning down the brightness on the Mac does make its >> battery last longer, but that turning it off is the best and that screen >> curtain seems to have no or minimal impact on battery life. >> >> CB >> >> On 8/15/12 2:55 PM, Mike Arrigo wrote: >>> I think it does save battery power. On IOS devices, the light on the >>> display is turned off, or at least on a very low setting. On the mac, I >>> don't use the screen curtain, instead I turn the brightness down to 0 >>> Original message: >>>> Ok, one of my notorious "just wondering" questions. >>> >>>> I've heard many discussions about whether screen curtain saves battery >>>> life in laptops and the smaller devices. I'm wondering if screen curtain >>>> works by modifying information that's already been passed to the display, >>>> or whether it bypasses the display altogether. If it's used on an Ipod, >>>> for example, does it still use a lot of resources? Does anyone know how it >>>> works, technically speaking? >>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> Teresa >>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
