bldgengineer

Whenever I'm on a plane I eat what they give me and sleep. Doesn't matter how long the flight is, I can always sleep nearly the whole flight. Been to scotland 6 or 7 times to visit family(7-9 hour flight, jamaica a few times(2.5 hour flight), dom. rep once(3 hour flight), vegas almost every year now(6 hour flight), australia visiting family twice(26hour flights! ). I guess its the drone of the engines, I don't know. I always have to make sure someone wakes me when we land

hermeslyre

Wow, you get around.. I've always wanted to travel the world, still stuck in America though...

NCIS330

Wow you fly alot. I've only many times but only 3 times out the country and that was to the UK, Australia and St. Barts.

bldgengineer

well, when it comes to vacation, I keep my eyes open for a good deal. As for family, ya gotta do what ya gotta do....

sup2jzgte

Get an IGO, you can get them here

http://www.radioshack.com/search/ind...rigkw=igo&sr=1


These are pretty cool if you have alot of different things you need to charge or use. When I worked at Radioshack we sold tons of these things and the minute we sold them we knew that atleast half of those tons would be returned when they got home. Not cause they sucked just because people rented them for a few days then returned them. So I would so go pick one up and if you like it keep it if not go and return it, because after all the sales associates are expecting you to return the thing .

Make sure of 2 things your flight has power where you are sitting, I have been on many flights were there was no power source to plug into. Second if you decide to pick up an Igo make SURE you know the EXACT model of your laptop and any other electronics you may want to use with it, because Shack guys WILL lie to you to get the sale out and I have seen cases where getting the wrong one fried some electronics.

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SAAER45

In Windows, under Power Options, you can change the power scheme to conserve energy. Here are the two relevant ones:

• The Portable/Laptop power scheme minimizes the use of power to conserve your battery, but adjusts to your processing needs so that the system speed is not sacrificed.

• The Max Battery power scheme minimizes power use but does not adjust as your processing demands change. You should use Max Battery only in situations that require minimal processing, such as reading documents and taking notes in a meeting.

For basic computing stuff such as flash games like Bejeweled, do you guys think I would be ok with “Max Battery" or would there be a noticeable drop in performance for those kinds of tasks?

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bldgengineer

Another option is this: you can always call the airline up and ask what kind of power options they have on the plane for things like a laptop computer, I have seen car lighter like outlets before in boeings and airbuses(of course I was bumped to business and 1st class, I can't remember seeing anything in regular).

Or you could always try something like this http://store.sundancesolarcorp.com/xapo150.html might be a little hard to explain to security though

SAAER45

I'd like to amend that post; I stupidly forget to mention the specs of the computer... It is a Pentium 4 (2.0GHz) with 512 MB of RAM

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