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More RAM: speed vs battery loss

Thread starter avoskorm
Start date May 13, 2009
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avoskorm

macrumors newbie

Original poster

May 13, 2009

#1

Is upgrading the ram worth the daily battery life lost?

Eidorian

macrumors Penryn

May 13, 2009

#2

More RAM would mean less paging to that SPINNING HARD DRIVE for virtual memory.

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Warranty Voider

macrumors 6502

May 13, 2009

#3

Eidorian said:
More RAM would mean less paging to that SPINNING HARD DRIVE for virtual memory.

True, the more ram you have, the less swap you need, if at all. It would be cool to see a graph of RAM vs overall power consumption.

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