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Non Gaming Discussions => Off-Topic => Topic started by: videoholic on July 06, 2005, 02:56:18 AM

Title: Notebook Battery life
Post by: videoholic on July 06, 2005, 02:56:18 AM

I just dropped 2 gigs of ram in my notebook.  Up from 512 megs.

I should notice a significant increase in battery life now shouldn\'t I since the HD isn\'t swapping much any more, shouldn\'t I?

Anyone else have experience with this?

Title: Notebook Battery life
Post by: mm on July 06, 2005, 03:26:38 AM

afraid it doesnt work that way

the ram might even use more juice than a HD

ram was to constantly be supplied with voltage, where as a hard drive might not

Title: Notebook Battery life
Post by: videoholic on July 06, 2005, 03:52:10 AM

Well it seemed like my hard drive was always on.  I\'ll do after effects work on the thing and it was pretty damn slow.

Oh well.  Keep that sucker plugged in I guess.

Title: Notebook Battery life
Post by: Avatarr on July 07, 2005, 11:39:00 PM

whell think of it this way: if it was damn slow before, it means you needed to keep it on for longer to do the same amount of work. now it wouldn\'t take as long, so you end up using less power. ^_^

Title: Notebook Battery life
Post by: §ôµÏG®ïñD on July 08, 2005, 05:16:24 AM

You\'ll get around %30 more battery life from the extra ram.

Title: Notebook Battery life
Post by: mm on July 08, 2005, 03:05:53 PM

who farted?

Title: Notebook Battery life
Post by: Evi on July 08, 2005, 03:30:24 PM

You did.

Title: Notebook Battery life
Post by: §ôµÏG®ïñD on July 08, 2005, 10:43:32 PM

Quote

Originally posted by mm
who farted?

Thats your breath.

Title: Notebook Battery life
Post by: mm on July 09, 2005, 03:26:52 AM

negative points for both of you

try harder, please

Title: Notebook Battery life
Post by: Knotter8 on July 09, 2005, 04:17:49 AM

Well, try to gauge the average battery use AfterEffects, then compare it to your notebook\'s battery life.

I think that app uses both RAM and HD quite intensively. What\'s your HD\'s rpm ;

5400 or 7200 ?

(ow, and Evis\' avvy rocks ! :bounce: )