W500 LCD - mitigate variation with time?

Hello

My W500 has been used for almost a year now, and sometimes I think he's wearing already dimmer. I know that my previous ThinkPads evenually all done - a limitation of this technology.

I am interested by ensuring that my W500 LCD screen brightness lasts for many years. Running, say a little less BRIGHTNESS level would retain the characterists illumination for a long time, or the LCD backlight will wear just because it is powered?

MacGyverRick, my experience with a variety of fluorescent-backlit poster over the years is this dimming the screen will allow to reduce the rate of ageing of the backlight. Whatever you do, NEVER RUN screensavers on LCD SCREENS! They are worse than useless, because they leave the backlight on its normal intensity all the time. The fastest way to age and darkens your fluorescent backlight is to leave your computer on all the time, running a screen saver when you are not using the machine. Who DIED of a fluroescent lighting.

But what I do is run that screen regardless of its intensity is better visually (which is about 85-90% for my W700). Then once I will not be using the screen for a few minutes, I turned off it at least. Or you can turn off the backlight altogether if you wish. For brightness, you can use the brightness (Fn + origin, Fn + end) or open Windows Mobility Center and drag the brightness of the display (start-> all programs-> Accessories-> Windows Mobility Center and put its icon in your taskbar for quick access). I guess you could also switch to the external display to turn off the backlight of the laptop altogether (set up using Fn + F7).

In any case, for example, I have a laptop Dell of the heavily used 12 year which display initially, I ran at full intensity all the time, including backlight faded significantly after one year. I then had the screen replaced because of damage caused by a faulty hinge, realized how many gradation had occurred this year and then began to turn off the backlight, whenever it was not necessary. This view is still very bright.

Similarly, I read a report of user W700, who said he measured the brightness of the screen after about a year, and that he had lost a third of its luminosity, wherease a LED backlit display he had during this same period rather only lost 4 per cent to itsbrightness. I ran display my W700 to 85-90% of brightness when I got it, because at 100%, it was so bright that my eyes hurt. A year and a half later, I still run 90% brightness, beyond which it is still too bright. So I did not close the gradation that there, and I perform the ritual preceding the minimum brightness display dimming whenever I have it won't need for the next few minutes. And in the power manager, I value the display turns off after 10 minutes of inactivity (Start-> all programs-> Thinkvantage-> Power Manager, basic settings, select "Change when the screen turns off"). I'm probably on the W700, 10-12 hours a day.

Also note that the LED backlight age much more slowly than the fluorescent backlight.

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