Does adding Ram affect battery life?

[WillMak]

Just curious

 

[Unorthodox]

No.






What's up?

 

[mad jew]

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]

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]

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]

4 hours is good. Embrace the 4 hours.

haha.. that's what i was going to say. 4 hours with wireless = excellent!

 

[Pressure]

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.