Originally
posted by
Jim Sachs:
As I recall (it was a decade ago), the whole monitor sleep mode thing was very problematic. It seemed to depend a lot on the operating system. Some people complained that their monitors would never go into sleep mode when the Aquarium was running, others complained when it did. And what about multimonitors - do some sleep and others not? It's a can of worms.
Of course, the decision is yours. I might point out however, that a decade ago you were dealing with Win95/98/ME/2000 systems and things like monitor sleep mode were brand new (and poorly implemented in many cases). The situation in that area has improved by a vast amount since then, both in the hardware and OS support. As far as multi-monitors, I can't speak for everyone else, but all of the multi-monitor setups I've seen over the last 3 years have worked properly (i.e. all monitors shut down and/or turn back on when they should).