Can Brightness Lose its Power?

[sukanas]

well w/ the MBP and the LED backlit, i can say.. the backlight is POWERFUL


i put it at around 60% well.. considering tha tmy room is pretty dark, the full display seriously feels like a flashlight...

 

[blurb23]

What do you mean? Like, the screen won't be as bright in 4 years as it was the day you first bought it?

 

[sukanas]

yeah exactly that

oh and may i add, "if so, how long will it take for it to lose its power"
thanks

 

[bcaslis]

The LED can lose some brightness, but it's much less than the older displays did. In those you would see it much dimmer after a year. On a 17" LED I have after 8 months there is no noticeable difference in the display brightness.

 

[sukanas]

would i be safe w/ using full brightness a lot?
or would it better for me to 'prolong' the life by going a little dimmer?

 

[bmcgrath]

They're designed to be used at full brightness. LED will loose a small bit of power over time but nothing like the old displays. So don't worry

 

[aleksandra.]

I'm using right now one of those old, bad LCDs that supposedly had so short a lifespan. It's only 10 year old (!) and I don't know about the brightness (impossible to notice the difference during so long a time), but it doesn't seem dim. Granted, it's rather small and has lower resolution than a MacBook, but it works. I think people worry too much about longevity of these things; I don't know any statistics, but it seems they're more likely to fail because of random reasons rather than die while you're still using them.

 

[dougnewman]

LEDs lose power very slowly.

Of course, even fluorescent-backlit LCDs deteriorate far less easily than CRTs do.