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post #1 of 38
7/12/05 at 6:36pm
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DTR (desktop replacement) notebooks have no chance of utilizing airline power as a source and many higher end notebooks are having the same problem.

A company known as "Astronics Corporation" is working on taking care of this problem with 150W 110VAC 60Hz power you can plug directly into during your flight. The FAA has just approved it and you may benefit as early as the start of next year from this new power that can easily run any notebook out on the market currently.

Company press release
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post #2 of 38
10/2/05 at 3:32pm
Fantastic!
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post #3 of 38
10/2/05 at 3:41pm
Cool!
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post #4 of 38
10/3/05 at 10:36am
Ohh yea, playing F.E.A.R on flights!
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post #5 of 38
10/3/05 at 4:22pm
That would be great... mY battery only lasts about 1.75 hours and my flights are normally longer than that...
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post #6 of 38
10/3/05 at 4:32pm
That's pretty awesome.. so when I go to China this summer (16 hour flight ) I'll be playing CoD 2
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post #7 of 38
10/3/05 at 4:35pm
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Originally Posted by AzN
That's pretty awesome.. so when I go to China this summer (16 hour flight ) I'll be playing CoD 2
If they have it setup on that flight...
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post #8 of 38
10/3/05 at 4:53pm
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post #9 of 38
10/3/05 at 5:03pm
i'll be flying x-plane
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post #10 of 38
10/27/05 at 11:35pm
I bet they only offer it in First/Business Class
All you suckers flying coach won't get it hahahaha!

(I'm one of those suckers myself)
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post #11 of 38
10/28/05 at 2:03am
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Originally Posted by barspi
I bet they only offer it in First/Business Class
All you suckers flying coach won't get it hahahaha!

(I'm one of those suckers myself)
Not if you have an extension cord!
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post #12 of 38
10/28/05 at 9:28am
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Originally Posted by Teckng778
That would be great... mY battery only lasts about 1.75 hours and my flights are normally longer than that...
u think ur battery is short i got 50 min just listening to music to see how long it would last
i wish they could come up with higher power batterys
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post #13 of 38
10/28/05 at 2:38pm
i just drained my laptop batteries to test the duration of it just a few days ago. nx8220 with internal and external batts. playing mp3 lasted me 13 hrs with LCD off.
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post #14 of 38
10/28/05 at 4:01pm
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Originally Posted by drizek
Not if you have an extension cord!
LOL that is funny. Anyway, yeah those mainly exist in F/B classes but some airlines do have jacks in economy class (still for very few seats). Continental is one of those airlines. Even When power jack was not an option, my old none "desktop replacement" gateway centrino lasted around 7 hours with 6 and 9 cell battery playing games like Rise of Nations. and 4-5 hours for dvd. THat is good enough for 1 14 hour flight!
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post #15 of 38
10/29/05 at 1:48am
I have a 26 hr flight comming in January from Newark NJ to Chiang Mai thailand... It is not a fun flight. PLus the laptop I am waiting on is a Sager 9860 so no games for me! it's like super first class that gets the outlet and it isn't worth an extra 300 for me to be able to play games :/
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post #16 of 38
11/11/05 at 4:24pm
I'm just about to fly to Taiwan soon from UK, will be taking China airlines...i hope they have a power socket! Would make my 16hour flight go by so quickly!
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post #17 of 38
11/11/05 at 7:03pm
just use the old fashioned method of surviving those flights - 2 glasses of red wine, ear plugs and blindfold, and straight to sleep.

Works well for me on my regular (well 2-3 x/year) 12 hour flights Auckland-LA.

cheers,
Jeff
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post #18 of 38
11/11/05 at 9:57pm
Are domestic flights putting in places to jack in for power?
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post #19 of 38
11/12/05 at 12:09am
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Originally Posted by jff1625
just use the old fashioned method of surviving those flights - 2 glasses of red wine, ear plugs and blindfold, and straight to sleep.

Works well for me on my regular (well 2-3 x/year) 12 hour flights Auckland-LA.

cheers,
Jeff
I took a 16 hour flight in summer of 2002.. all I did was watch tv and read for 14 hours and slept the last two lol..
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post #20 of 38
11/12/05 at 9:10am
I use to fly roundtrip Chicago (ORD)-Munich (MUC) with Lufthansa and aboard some of their newer airplanes they offer a PC power point with no adaptor necessary in business and first class seats only and WLAN access through the Boeing Connexion system everywhere in the main cabin.
http://lufthansa-business-class.de/uk/flash.html
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