re monitors should they be kept on hours a day smytonj murr alleg edu jim smyton writes nevai mps ohio state edu paul nevai 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 well the monitor is consistently the largest power drain on your electric bill when you are looking at your computer set up especially if you have a large or greater color monitor generally what i do is leave my mac on all the time except for the occasional resart or syetem crash but i turn my monitor off each night before i leave my office i also turn off after dark when i do this since there is no reason to have the screen saver running when there is no picture being displyed on the monitor s tube actually i thought macs were suppoused to be restarted once a day really what makes you think this the q file server in my office has been on for the last months straight and it hasn t had any problems note i also keep the monitor for the file server turned off when i m not actually working on the server itself hades
