Question for laptop users
Jul 12, 2012 | 8:54 am
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Question for laptop users
I'm flying to AUA next week on the 753 and like usual, the IFE options suck. I'm gonna bring my laptop but since they have no powerports on this aircraft I was wondering if anyone knows from experience which option uses less power and gives me more battery life. Do I get more battery life watching a streaming movie say on itunes versus watching a dvd which uses the computer dvd driver or does it not make a difference i terms of battery life.
Jul 12, 2012 | 9:37 am
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Watching it from a flash drive may improve your run time even more, if your power options let you spin down the disk.
Other things you can do (how much of an improvement you will get depends on your laptop)
Other things you can do (how much of an improvement you will get depends on your laptop)
- shut off bluetooth and wireless
- dim the display
- kill processes you don't need that may be accessing the disk (like virus scanners, etc)
- go into your power management utility and set everything you can to maximum battery life
Jul 12, 2012 | 3:21 pm
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I'm flying to AUA next week on the 753 and like usual, the IFE options suck. I'm gonna bring my laptop but since they have no powerports on this aircraft I was wondering if anyone knows from experience which option uses less power and gives me more battery life. Do I get more battery life watching a streaming movie say on itunes versus watching a dvd which uses the computer dvd driver or does it not make a difference i terms of battery life.
Cheers,
Adam
Jul 13, 2012 | 8:09 am
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Watching it from a flash drive may improve your run time even more, if your power options let you spin down the disk.
Other things you can do (how much of an improvement you will get depends on your laptop)
Other things you can do (how much of an improvement you will get depends on your laptop)
- shut off bluetooth and wireless
- dim the display
- kill processes you don't need that may be accessing the disk (like virus scanners, etc)
- go into your power management utility and set everything you can to maximum battery life