To save or not to save
July 17th, 2009 Avatar
The visual arts industry that is the screensaver business has long since been a part of computer culture that even today’s energy efficient hardware still use to prevent a problem known as screen burn-in. If you’ve seen a burned in image on your monitor, that’s it. But with today’s energy saving technology, do we still need screensavers? Well, that’s totally up to the user for a computer system that is running a screensaver still consumes electricity, you’d think that it would be more environmentally friendly just to shut-down or better yet use the stand-by or hibernate mode to save on alkl the juice that’s being eaten up by your unused PC. Power down and save a few kilowatts of power so you do get to save a bit of electricity. It’s greener and for the benefit of all.