Unless you're doing work, it seems to me that having WiFi would be the major reason one would keep his or her laptop turned on for a significant length of time on a plane. I haven't flown since January 2007 -- are there now places to plug in your computer on planes? (Even the commuter train I used to take to work until last year had those.) If not, then for me, at least, the WiFi wouldn't really offer anything, especially on a long flight. On the other hand, maybe some people have extra batteries they can swap out, or they have one of those netbooks with super-long battery life. Or maybe they want WiFi only to check e-mail and then sign off.
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Unless you're doing work, it seems to me that having WiFi would be the major reason one would keep his or her laptop turned on for a significant length of time on a plane. I haven't flown since January 2007 -- are there now places to plug in your computer on planes? (Even the commuter train I used to take to work until last year had those.) If not, then for me, at least, the WiFi wouldn't really offer anything, especially on a long flight. On the other hand, maybe some people have extra batteries they can swap out, or they have one of those netbooks with super-long battery life. Or maybe they want WiFi only to check e-mail and then sign off.