Originally Posted by
makfan
I used to think the lack of seat power was a big negative, but I bought a new MacBook Pro late last year. I just flew JFK-SFO and used the laptop heavily during flight to read backlogged email, etc. I had at least an hour and a half of battery life left on arrival. I could probably do Europe to the East Coast. Watching movies would shorten the battery life, but I'd rent a dig-e-player if I wanted to do that.
On my last flight featuring in-seat power (on DL), I had the pleasure of sitting next to a gentleman who elected to unfurl his unwieldy Thinkpad just prior to mealtime. After assembling his whole workstation, complete with gia-normous power brick and full size hard-wired mouse, our food arrived, which inexplicably caught him off guard, and in his rush to dismantle his rig, spilled the better part of a glass of white wine in my lap.