http://www.ohgizmo.com/2009/07/30/netbook-battery-hacked-into-iphone-usb-charger/ Deliciously Geeky... Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:10:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 http://www.ohgizmo.com/2009/07/30/netbook-battery-hacked-into-iphone-usb-charger/comment-page-1/#comment-407530 JasonHofmann Fri, 31 Jul 2009 00:59:45 +0000 http://www.ohgizmo.com/?p=27872#comment-407530 My new Dell Latitude E6400 has one USB port with a lightining bolt icon next to it. If enabled in the BIOS, it will remain powered even when the laptop is off. In the BIOS, you can even configure percent-capacity thresholds at which the laptop should stop powering the port, such as 5%, 10%, 25%, etc. Great feature. In fact, I keep my Verizon/Novatel MiFi 2200 permanently connected to this port in my briefcase so that it thinks it is "plugged in" and allows up to 5 devices to connect to it via WiFi (as opposed to the single device limit when on battery power). Overall, this is such a great feature that I expect all laptops to have it within 2 years. My new Dell Latitude E6400 has one USB port with a lightining bolt icon next to it. If enabled in the BIOS, it will remain powered even when the laptop is off. In the BIOS, you can even configure percent-capacity thresholds at which the laptop should stop powering the port, such as 5%, 10%, 25%, etc. Great feature. In fact, I keep my Verizon/Novatel MiFi 2200 permanently connected to this port in my briefcase so that it thinks it is “plugged in” and allows up to 5 devices to connect to it via WiFi (as opposed to the single device limit when on battery power). Overall, this is such a great feature that I expect all laptops to have it within 2 years.

]]> http://www.ohgizmo.com/2009/07/30/netbook-battery-hacked-into-iphone-usb-charger/comment-page-1/#comment-396833 jasonhofmann Thu, 30 Jul 2009 19:59:45 +0000 http://www.ohgizmo.com/?p=27872#comment-396833 My new Dell Latitude E6400 has one USB port with a lightining bolt icon next to it. If enabled in the BIOS, it will remain powered even when the laptop is off. In the BIOS, you can even configure percent-capacity thresholds at which the laptop should stop powering the port, such as 5%, 10%, 25%, etc. Great feature. In fact, I keep my Verizon/Novatel MiFi 2200 permanently connected to this port in my briefcase so that it thinks it is "plugged in" and allows up to 5 devices to connect to it via WiFi (as opposed to the single device limit when on battery power). Overall, this is such a great feature that I expect all laptops to have it within 2 years. My new Dell Latitude E6400 has one USB port with a lightining bolt icon next to it. If enabled in the BIOS, it will remain powered even when the laptop is off. In the BIOS, you can even configure percent-capacity thresholds at which the laptop should stop powering the port, such as 5%, 10%, 25%, etc. Great feature. In fact, I keep my Verizon/Novatel MiFi 2200 permanently connected to this port in my briefcase so that it thinks it is “plugged in” and allows up to 5 devices to connect to it via WiFi (as opposed to the single device limit when on battery power). Overall, this is such a great feature that I expect all laptops to have it within 2 years.

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