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Power management

Power management

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Power management

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- Everything in IT needs power, but it's your laptops that really need power, because we have the audacity to pick these things up and walk around with them. So what I want to do in this episode is talk about power and power management. Now, when I say power and power management, what I'm talking about is this thing is going to run on a battery. So I want to do anything I can to keep this thing happily running on a battery for as long as possible. So the first thing I want to start talking about is this beastie right here. It's an AC adapter. We've all seen these. These are the guys that we plug our laptops into it, it charges the battery, right? Well, first of all you got to be careful with AC adapters, 'cause number one, this is the one place where I tend to buy directly from the manufacturer. For example, if I've got a Dell, I tend to buy Dell AC adapters just because I've had a little bit of bad luck with…

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