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ktinkel · 06-02-2007, 01:38 PM

According to a note in the July MacWorld, Apple plans to replace the fluorescent lamps now used to backlight its flat-screen monitors with LED backlighting. (This is part of a plan to reduce the use of arsenic, mercury, and brominated flame retardents in Apple products. The LCD fluorescents contain mercury.)

What I wonder is what effect this will have on performance. I am thinking of getting a new computer and monitor — should I hurry up to get one of the old polluting versions? Or wait for this new thing?

06-02-2007, 01:38 PM	#1
ktinkel Founding Sysop Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: In Connecticut, on the Housatonic River near its mouth at Long Island Sound. Posts: 11,187	LED monitors? According to a note in the July MacWorld, Apple plans to replace the fluorescent lamps now used to backlight its flat-screen monitors with LED backlighting. (This is part of a plan to reduce the use of arsenic, mercury, and brominated flame retardents in Apple products. The LCD fluorescents contain mercury.) What I wonder is what effect this will have on performance. I am thinking of getting a new computer and monitor — should I hurry up to get one of the old polluting versions? Or wait for this new thing? __________________ [SIZE=2][COLOR=LemonChiffon]::[/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]

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