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Laptop battery life question ????

Discussion in 'PC hardware help' started by thomas44, Dec 15, 2007.

  1. thomas44

    thomas44 Member

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    I'll be flying for about 5 to 6 hours on Monday. I'm taking a few videos with me. I was wondering if I can prolong my battery life on my laptop by installing them on my hard drive now and playing them from there rather then my DVD player?
     
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    If you play them on your DVD player, you will be consuming power from the batteries in your DVD player, not your laptop, so I don't quite see the point of your question.
     
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    Hard drive vs. DVD player?
     
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    Or more specific.
    Hard drive vs. The DVD disc in my laptop.
     
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    You mean the DVD player built into your laptop, right? Or do you mean one of those portable DVD players that has a screen and is made just for DVD playback?
     
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    That's correct.
     
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    I read some figures elsewhere that a laptop DVD drive was measured at 7 watts while copying data from a DVD-ROM, and most modern laptop hard drives consume around 2-3 watts, so i would say the hard drive is a better choice as far as battery life is concerned.
     
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    That's very encouraging. Thanks for the reply. Ever little bit helps on those long flights.
     
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    Of course, a flash memory drive would be best of all, since it has no moving parts. You can rip a 90 min movie to DivX at around 6-700 Mb each one and get around 5 on a 4 GB memory stick or 2-3 on a 2 GB one.
     

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