It is indeed possible to watch 3 episodes of prison break before your laptop battery gives out. Here’s a few tips, some blatantly obvious and some… well, pretty obvious also… but here we go:
- Dim the brightness on your laptop screen. This seems obvious but I actually always forget to do it. It will make a big difference.
- Close down any applications (before you’re on battery) that are sending Internet data. This includes any IM clients, websites such as Google mail that might be regularly polling a server,… and yes, that bit-torrent client.
- In fact… shut down any unnecessary apps completely as they’ll be using unnecessary clock cycles just sitting there.
- Turn off your wireless network connection and unplug any peripherals. These will be a big drain.
- Use WinDVD or a similar player that will actually allow you to watch the episode faster than real time… if you watch it 1.25x faster, the people don’t sound much different! :)
- Don’t stop to write a blog post before you get going.
Good night y’all.
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Or you could just watch one episode of “Flight of the Conchords”, laugh yourself to sleep, get up early and have a productive day…
oh, hang on a minute, it’s not on UK TV yet, shit.