Hi all
Just to add my tuppence to this. This screen is indeed lit by LED's and not a ccfd as has been mentioned. i can ber absolutely certain of this as I have just spent a loooong time sourcing a replacement screen for my sons broken one! Found one eventually but cost me (him!) £50! Anyway the heatsource is in fact a usb "stick" wifi adaptor (sans case) mounted there and connected to the main board by 4 wires (as in USB!) this stick has an external rod aerial attached to it which is then stuck (with double sided tape) along the top of the screen! But as you say if it gets hot it's using energy!
Dave
Thanks Dave for this confirmation about the current screen.
I was in a Maplin shop last week for a repair component and noticed a "refurbished" Onet on display.
It looked different, and I asked to have a look at it.
The one I got in September last year had no Elonex Logo underlined by red squares underneath the screen, so it was different. But it was the screen display itself that had caught my attention, one of those out the corner of my eye things, that I only noticed because of the difference, that I knew somehow looked different.
The LCD viewing angles on a CCFL backlit display are limited, but with a LED netbook screen they are almost unlimited. This one was near unlimited, and therefore it seemed to me that it almost certainly was LED illuminated, but there was still a hot spot near to the display that shouldn't be there for driving a LED display. There was only one reasonable alternative, and I disconnected the WiFi, and went back to inspect it about ten minutes later, when the hot spot had gone. Switching off the WiFi on my original Onet did not have that effect, although that may have been because they had either not implemented it or I had one with a faulty switch. The current model Onet is not the same as the ones first shipped.
September/October last year, Elonex support was from an Indian call centre, and I had more than one of the support staff thanking me because "we didn't know that Sir, thank you, I will pass that on to my colleagues".
One of my questions was about the failure to better shut down power use during sleep mode, that I thought was an available function on the chips, such as for the WiFi, and although they said they would note this and pass it on, my cynicism about the effectiveness of Indian call centres knows no bounds.
The WiFi failure on my original Onet, required that replacement under warranty was by me, but I passed on the package with the replacement unopened. After my Maplin experience, I asked the new owner to turn off the WifI in sleep and standby mode, to see whether the hot spot disappears, and it does. With the WiFi off, and after an automatic screen power down from lack of use, restarting the screen display is immediate, which is consistent with a LED display as the first poster enquired. I only found this out yesterday.
If you are buying a Onet on ebay (because Elonex shop has no Onet in stock) best not get one without the Elonex logo on the screen bevel.
And the answer to avoiding sleep power drain for a LED Onet, is almost certainly to disconnect the WiFi before putting it to sleep.
