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    Maxamize battery Life on Air Flight?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Necss, Apr 7, 2007.

  1. Necss

    Necss Notebook Consultant

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    Ok all i want to do is watch a movie or two nothing else i will have contrast all the way down i no how to make processor half but to watch movie do i even need that much processing power?
    Anyone no how to like go down to 1/4 the processor speed or anything that will help me get an extra hour or two?
     
    Necss, Apr 7, 2007
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  2. Homer_Jay_Thompson

    Homer_Jay_Thompson blathering blatherskite

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    Why not buy an air plane adapter that lets you plug your laptop into the electrical outlet on the plane?
     
    Homer_Jay_Thompson, Apr 7, 2007
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  3. Evolution

    Evolution Vox Sola

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    If you want to maximize batter life while watching a movie on an airplane you could disable components that are not in use via device manager. Things like dial up modem, ethernet, cardbus and obviously turn off your wireless,the idea is they can't draw battery power if they are disabled.
    I don't think it is possible to use 1/4 of the processor power because processors have a fixed set of multipliers and no modern ones have a multiplier that will allow you to use such a small amount of processing power. Take for example a 1.8ghz processor, for you to use 1/4 of it would mean you are using 450mhz and that is not possible with mainstream modern processors.

    You could however do as homer_Jay_Thompson suggested.
     
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  4. Kdawgca

    Kdawgca rotaredoM repudrepuS RBN

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    You could also underclock your video card and processor. Also burn the dvd to your hard drive and disable your dvdrw drive.
     
    Kdawgca, Apr 7, 2007
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    spikeystud88 Notebook Guru

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    Wow, how long is this flight??

    Having your wireless off and your contrast low will save you the most power. I'm pretty sure that the difference between having the movie(s) on your hard drive and playing them from your DVD-RW wouldn't be much. If it's on the hard drive, then the drive needs power for the whole 2 or 3 hours of the movie (hard drives use a lot of power when they're spinning nonstop). Actually, come to think of it I bet playing it from the DVD-RW would use less power. Then all it has to do is spin it. Er, wait...does Windows pre-cache it on the hard drive before playing it? I'm not sure. If I'm wrong someone correct me please.

    Anyways, have a safe and fun flight :)!
     
    spikeystud88, Apr 8, 2007
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  6. Necss

    Necss Notebook Consultant

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    Thx Well i have 2 flights bout 7hrs in total and nothing else to do so tryna get alot of battery time :p
     
    Necss, Apr 8, 2007
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