Can sunlight damage laptop LCDs?

I sit next to a window, sometimes, sunlight comes in and hit the LCD. I close the strip like blinds, but still some sunlight hits the screen.

Can this damage the LCD?

 

As long as you don't focus it though a magnifying glass you should be fine.

 

I don't think so. Especially not through a window where UVA doesn't get through. But even outside I haven't heard of anyone "damaging" their screen from the sun. I'd be worried about too much pressure on the screen or something instead.

 

I've had my Acer out in the sun for a while once, and while you couldn't immediately tell it, the LCD panel will soak up a lot of that light as heat. It washed the colors out temporarily. When it cooled off, it was back to normal.

 

I don't think so. One thing that will though is always using the screen on the highest brightness setting, which you have to do if you're in the sun. LCD backlights can't last forever, but still, odds are your laptop will die first. I think you'll be ok

 

Long as it isn't outside for like 8 hours a day in direct sunlight for weeks at a time it won't cause any problems

 

Sun light and heat can do damage to plastic and other components, but it'd probably take being locked in a hot car in direct sunlight for days for there really to be a problem. Leaving it out in the 110 degree Arizona desert is probably also not a good idea.

But overall if you're just using it casually around town or in the park, there shouldn't be much of a problem. Take sense to cover it up I guess if you really want to take care of it and use it in the shade if you have the option.

 

I know what the sun does to my plastic garbage cans!

 

The sunlight is not the problem for notebook,but the heat that comes with that sunlight can become a serious problem.

 

Over time UV light will age an LCD screen, however window glass will filter a lot of it out so I wouldn't expect you to have a problem if you use the blinds for some of the time.

Don't LCD user manuals contain a warning about direct sunlight? I'm sure they used to.

 

If you leave the LCD long enough in the sun light which warms it up (this is a temperature thing, nothing with the rays themselves), you will notice that colours on display are more "warmer" (red spectrum).

While when I turn on my laptop during cold winters (-25 C) and room is about 12 C if I forget to turn on heating, i notice cold colours (blue spectrum) and it visible changes during the heat up.

However, unless as others said, you leave it in a desert for a long time, the plastic will melt..

-Mel