Whether or not you're using your wireless connection, the WLAN NIC is transmitting data and sucking juice. To alleviate the battery consumption associated with constant WLAN usage, some vendors include a physical on/off switch for embedded wireless mini-PCI cards, letting users turn radios on and off without having to click around in Windows to disable them.
Features in Every Port
New notebooks offer a plethora of data ports--you'll have to ascertain how many and what you need before buying. If you forget something or leave it out because of the initial cost, you may end up paying restocking costs to replace a notebook that cannot be used.
Most give you the basic 56-Kbps modem, an Ethernet port (even Gigabit Ethernet availability), multiple USB 2.0 ports, a PC card slot and headphone/microphone support, along with several other port options. Higher-end notebooks provide any combination of Cadillac ports, including an S-Video output, an IrDA (Infrared Data Association) interface and FireWire (IEEE 1394) ports. Also available are slots supporting various portable-storage media, such as SD memory, a memory stick and compact flash.
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