Is it ok to never put the display to sleep??

I wanted to remove the display sleep on power mode but when I clicked never it said that it may shorten the display's life, what "life" is it talking about? I have never put my crappy windows computers to sleep for years and nothing happened with the display??

Mostly it's referring to the backlight. Older MacBooks (and other LCD screens) use flourescent bulbs for backlighting and those bulbs have a limited lifespan, so turning off the display helps extend that life. Later LCD displays use LEDs for backlighting and those have a longer lifespan, so turning the display off isn't as critical, though it's still valuable.
Regards.

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windmarble wrote:
I use to be able to turn off my displays by hitting "lock screen" in keychain access in Snow Leopard.
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It would shorten it's life if you leave it on year 'round. For the amount of time to calibrate the battery won't hurt it.

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Something is waking the display up then--it might even be that server connection.
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I'm running some compression and transcoding programs on my iMac G5 (iSight) that keeps the CPU at 100% for hours at a time. My Energy Saver prefernces is set to sleep the display after a few minutes, but never to sleep the computer or the hard disk.
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Probably the resolution is switching from a mirrored resolution to some other resolution that the TV can't work from. Try this; shut down the MacBook. Cable up the TV to the MB and also the external keyboard and mouse. Hold down the Shift key on the external keyboard, hit the start button on the MacBook and immediately close the lid on the MB after you've hit the start button. Continue holding the Shift key down on the external keyboard until you see the grey screen with the spinning gear at which time you can release the Shift key. The MB should now finish starting up in Safe mode with only the external screen being on. Hopefully the screen will not be rolling.
Once the MB finishes booting, go into System Preferences/Displays and set the resolution to the optimal/desired resolution for your TV. Hopefully this choice will stick through subsequent restarts and also correct the issue of the rolling screen under the conditions in the scenario you described.

Putting iMac display to sleep, when using TV as a screen.

I have just connected my iMac to my 42" Panasonic 1080p TV, the connection was easy and is working fine. My questions relates to putting the iMac display to sleep when using the TV as a monitor, if I am watching You Tube, Sky Player or a DVD, I intend to use my TV as the monitor. Is it possible for the iMac to puts its display to sleep, whilst leaving the TV on. I played around with this today, however was unable to manage this.
Regards Craig

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Putting the monitor to sleep

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"puts the system to sleep or wakes it" refers to both your monitor and G5.
to only turn your monitor on or off select option "turns the display on or off" does not affect G5.
no option to sleep monitor by itself with the power button on the display..
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http://www.maclife.com/article/howtos/gosleepnow
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Hi,
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with 10.2.8 or 10.3.9 is there a way to set up a "F" key instead of using the pull down menu?
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