My Laptop battery does not last long enough to record my lectures?
My Laptop battery does not last long enough to record my lectures?
Laptops will generally have a battery that lasts a few hours, under a light load.
A light load is one or two browser tabs/windows and one light app such as Word or Teams.
ANY recording app, making notes/incorporating AI in some way or otherwise is a significant load and will vastly decrease the battery life in even ideal circumstances, such as recording from the headset.
If you are using a laptop under significant load, and it is not plugged into a power source your risk data loss and/or not being able to record an entire lecture.
The solution to this is NOT using a Laptop power bank, which are expensive, or a standard power bank, which will literally "charge" the laptop for minutes at most:
If a program, such as Glean/Genio/TalkType/Dragon etc is running, trying to make out an unfamiliar voice from across a noisy lecture hall/room and generate notes.
All while potentially powering an external microphone and any other devices, even a laptop with a 10+ hour advertised battery life will drain in under 2 hours.
The solution to this problem, is to use the App and Microphone as intended.
For TalkType/Glean/Genio or similar, much of the same advice applies. A Microphone has to work twice as hard with an unfamiliar voice, twice that again if not a headset, twice again if a foot away etc.
In addition, the laptop is likely not designed to power a Microphone and make "live" notes while not plugged in.
In a pinch, an "attached" Microphone can make the recording, and again to save power import and create any notes later or ensure the laptop is plugged in and/or the Microphone is powered by a power bank..
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