battery life & flying?

[saakmotu]

interesting.. ok, I will try another test where I just suspend it overnight, rather than a shutdown.
(I usually do suspend it, but tend to leave it plugged in).

I never would have thought that the processor was still drawing power, but I guess these things aren't quite desktop machines, either.

I recall that OpenZaurus (at least for the 5x00) had a "shutdown" option, so that's what gave me the idea to use the commandline shutdown.

[Elkronz]

Just as another bit of experience with a Zaurus and flying:
I took my 6000 on a  flight and had no problems with it. I was using an IR keyboard and used it for about an hour and a half with no loss of battery power (i have the expansion sled too).  I didn't use the wifi and made sure there were no connections listed so that it "shouldn't" try to connect to anything. Though i must stress, i did ask before using it - the cabin crew asked the captain who asked his ground/technical staff and they still had the proviso that if anything started going funny, they'd assume it was my device. All was okay, though. I'm still alive so it must have been

Of course, if they'd said i couldn't use it, i'd have switched it off completely.  I wanted to make it to my destination

Elkronz

[saakmotu]

I have subjected my Z in the "suspended and unplugged overnight test" and it passed with flying colors (no pun intended).

I guess that does provide circumsantial, at least, evidence that shutdown/halt commands at the command-line, while appearing to put the Z down, actually leaves the device in a power consuming mode (although, from my experience, not enough to bring down a passenger jet [JetBlue flies Airbus... can't comment on Boeing])  

If they allow cellphone use on planes, I wonder if it will then be ok to enable the wifi. Not that you'd have anything to connect to but an ad-hoc network, at least for now.

[bluedevils]

be careful.  When they do provide cell usage, wifi can't be too far behind.  The airports already have it.  Imagine VOIP on a plane!!!