Good Ideas, Bad Implementation - #547 in a series of infinity

[daveon]

So, I'm on a flight down to LA to meet some prospective partners and Alaska Air have implemented fleetwide inflight WiFi on flights inside the "lower 48" - woohoo!  Super!  Double Plus Good!

Of course, implementing inflight WiFi without implementing inseat power?  Hmm... I suspect that I'll be turning this off pretty soon.

Comments

[kevin-standlee.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I knew they had been testing it on specific planes, but I hadn't heard that it was fleet-wide now. Mind you, my last few trips to Oregon, I drove instead of flying -- I'll tend to do that for trips longer than two weeks.

I will have to remember to put the secondary battery into my laptop. (I have a "half-battery" that fits in the CD-ROM bay. With both the inboard and drive-bay battery, I can get as much as five hours battery life, and I've never been on an Alaska Airlines flight longer than that. I only wish I knew how to tell the computer to use the main battery first, then warn me as it swaps to the reserve battery. That would make it easier to swap in a spare main battery.

[nojay.livejournal.com]

You can get external battery packs for laptops -- I have one from Ebay that runs my little laptop for several hours now the regular battery is too old to hold a charge. It came with a bunch of different plugs for different laptop models and it has a 5V USB socket for charging phones etc. It plugs in where the usual power adaptor fits and can deliver either 12V, 16V or 19V depending on the setting and what the laptop needs.