One of the dirty little secrets of Apple’s MacBook Pro was that there was no airplane power adapter available for it. In fact, since it draws 85 watts of power and most seats can only deliver 75 watts of power, so it was pretty much doomed from the start.
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Many airlines provide flight schedules that you can load onto your Palm Pilot. Some, like American and United, even provide conduits so that the flight schedules are automatically updated when you hotsync. You still don’t get your travel details loaded into your PDA, but if you travel a lot, this can be very handy.

I ran across a helpful web site at http://www.palmflying.com/altools.html. They have a table of various airlines and conduits and downloads that they provide to support Palm Pilots and Pocket PC’s. If you don’t see what you want there, you might take a look at your airline’s web site; they may have what you need there.

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