I know with hard disk space in a phone, its negligible impact on battery life, just more storage. Is it the same with RAM? Or is there a battery life cost associated with having more of it?
Yes there is a cost to adding more RAM.
I know with hard disk space in a phone, its negligible impact on battery life, just more storage. Is it the same with RAM? Or is there a battery life cost associated with having more of it?
I know with hard disk space in a phone, its negligible impact on battery life, just more storage. Is it the same with RAM? Or is there a battery life cost associated with having more of it?
Apple would love this to be true. Apple is just being cheap greedy corporate Sharks by half assing the ram and acting like there doing us a favor .
Yeah, I thought RAM was supposed to help, but then Apple's omission and that multiprocessing vs android video got me wondering... but I think your right, Apple is just "keeping some cards in hand" again just to get us to upgrade to the 6S... sigh![]()
But the added drain is hardly worth mentioning.
"While the idea that the operating system should be as efficient as possible with available RAM is certainly not new, [Microsoft's Windows lead developer Steven] Sinofsky then introduced a detailed explanation authored by Bill Karagounis, the group program manager of Microsoft's Performance team, to detail exactly why using less RAM is so critically important.
Karagounis points out that "minimizing memory usage on low-power platforms can prolong battery life," noting that "In any PC, RAM is constantly consuming power. If an OS uses a lot of memory, it can force device manufacturers to include more physical RAM. The more RAM you have on board, the more power it uses, the less battery life you get."
I'd love to see your source for this because I've yet to see any actual information on this subject and am honestly quite curious.