re monitors should they be kept on hours a day in article c uhhi hdg austin ibm com kelleyb austin ibm com kelley boylan writes yes i know computers and harddisk drives should be always on but what about monitors they generate a lots of heat should i or shouldn t i keep them on hours a day any advice thanks take care paul there has been no empirical evidence to support the first statement true there is a power surge at startup that has the potential to do damage but the internal power supply is well protected i ve turned my mac on and off six or seven times a day for three years without problem the monitor is the same to leave it on is to waste a lot of electricity twice as much as a television possibly more the computer itself uses far less electricity than a tv monitor depends on the size but one thing not to do is use a self shutdown or power shutdown iron appliance on the same electric line after a new monitor and power supply and modem my wife still doesn t think her iron is at fault she should know better being a bio med engineer brett there s nothing so passionate as a vested interest disguised as an intellectual conviction sean o casey in the white plague by frank herbert
