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Extend battery life by turning off AirPort
Authored by: isaacfinnegan on Mar 03, '03 03:45:03PM

This doesn't actually work. I've spoken with support techs, and the airport card never actually gets turned off. The menu extra does disable the network interface, but the hardware is not ever powered off unless you remove it. I suppose this is part of the kernel extension and why the Airport Extreme hacks to work with other cards have problems when you remove the 802.11g cards.



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Re: Extend battery life by turning off AirPort
Authored by: Anonymous on Mar 04, '03 03:42:47PM

I'm sorry; I must disagree with your belief. As the submitter of the hint, within a few seconds of when I turn AirPort off, my Battery menu extra revises its estimate of remaining time and produces a larger figure.



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