Wireless and battery time, oh my!
Happy New Ye, everyone!
I recently got an AirPort card for my pride & joy. Whlie I have never had any real reason to gripe with the battery life on my iBook, why is it that enabling Wi-Fi tends to drain the iBook's battery faster then with Wi-Fi turned off?
Thanks to anyone who can help.
I recently got an AirPort card for my pride & joy. Whlie I have never had any real reason to gripe with the battery life on my iBook, why is it that enabling Wi-Fi tends to drain the iBook's battery faster then with Wi-Fi turned off?
Thanks to anyone who can help.
2 Comments:
The only reason it's chewing up the battery life is because the radio needs to be powered. Receiving, and even more intensive, broadcasting data will eat battery life pretty fast.
Consider yourself lucky, though: with the wireless radio enabled on my laptop, I get about ten minutes of battery life. Without it, I get fifteen... I need a new laptop.
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Anonymous, at 6:21 PM
It is recommended that if you are not on wireless environment or you do not need to connect to the internet/network wirelessly, you should disable the AirPort, particularly if you are running on batteries.
You can simply enable/disable from System Preference (or the AirPort status icon in the menu bar).
By
Antony Shen, at 12:53 AM
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