> as it will be undoubtedly obvious whether a monitor is in-fact powered or not by just looking at it. Will it? Is the screen dark because it's off (janitor bu

> as it will be undoubtedly obvious whether a monitor is in-fact powered or not by just looking at it. Will it? Is the screen dark because it's off (janitor bumped it at night), because my laptop didn't wake up when I docked it, or because I forgot to plug the cable back in after fooling with an SBC on that monitor yesterday? The power light makes the state of the monitor obvious, and so does an image displaying on it. The light's useful for the edge cases when there isn't an image being displayed.