Author Topic: Notebook Battery life (Read 548 times)

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?

« **Reply #1 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

videoholic · « **Reply #2 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.

« **Reply #3 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. ^_^

§ôµÏG®ïñD · « **Reply #4 on:** July 08, 2005, 05:16:24 AM »

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

« **Reply #5 on:** July 08, 2005, 03:05:53 PM »

who farted?

Evi · « **Reply #6 on:** July 08, 2005, 03:30:24 PM »

You did.

§ôµÏG®ïñD · « **Reply #7 on:** July 08, 2005, 10:43:32 PM »

Quote

Originally posted by mm
who farted?

Thats your breath.

« **Reply #8 on:** July 09, 2005, 03:26:52 AM »

negative points for both of you

try harder, please

« **Reply #9 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 !

)

Hello

Author Topic: Notebook Battery life (Read 548 times)