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WillMak
Jun 20, 2006, 10:26 PM
Just curious


Unorthodox
Jun 20, 2006, 10:26 PM
No.






What's up?
mad jew
Jun 20, 2006, 10:27 PM
Not in any real-world way. It'll technically use more RAM in one sense, but may prevent unnecessary hard drive access, thereby using less power. :)
WillMak
Jun 20, 2006, 10:37 PM
cause I'm only getting about 4 hours of battery life with wireless on for my macbook. Is that normal? I ask because apple advertised the ibook's battery life at 4 hours with wireless on, but I always got around 5 with my old ibook that had 1.5 GB of Ram in it.
CanadaRAM
Jun 20, 2006, 10:38 PM
cause I'm only getting about 4 hours of battery life with wireless on for my macbook. Is that normal? I ask because apple advertised the ibook's battery life at 4 hours with wireless on, but I always got around 5 with my old ibook that had 1.5 GB of Ram in it.
MacBook != iBook
I don't think you can draw the comparison. 4 hours is good. Embrace the 4 hours.
xfiftyfour
Jun 21, 2006, 12:40 AM
4 hours is good. Embrace the 4 hours.

haha.. that's what i was going to say. 4 hours with wireless = excellent!
Pressure
Jun 21, 2006, 03:37 AM
Yes, increasing the number of modules or size of them will have an impact on batterylife.

It should be in the magnitude of 10-15 minutes.