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One of the comments Steve Dembo made in his FETC iPad presentation<\/a> was that one of great benefits of the iPad was the battery life. Easy to overlook something like this.<\/p>\n

I started thinking about the benefits of a device that you can charge once and use throughout the school day or in my case a day at the conference. The conference was probably the first time I had used my iPad under what I would call “real world conditions”; 6 hours or so of continuous use much of it with Internet access. I was not even close to exhausting the battery.<\/p>\n

Now, if you are used to taking your laptop to a conference, you soon find yourself looking for a place to plug in. Perhaps you station yourself at the back of the room during a presentation or sit on the floor in a hallway having located a plugin.<\/p>\n

\"needpower\"<\/a><\/p>\n

We need a phrase to describe these people now that I am no longer one of their number. Plugin challenged. Temporarily attached. Mobile to a point.<\/p>\n

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