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How does increasing RAM effect laptop battery life on standby?
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Mar 15, 20266134 viewsConfidence Score0%
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Just a simple theoretical question: Does increasing the amount of physical RAM on a laptop affect the battery life while in standby? I always thought the only real difference between hibernate and standby was that standby still had to power the RAM to keep memory and a tiny bit of CPU, while hibern…
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Yes, probably. Most RAM on laptops is dynamic RAM, which requires periodic refreshing in order for its charge not to leak away. There are a couple of ways that laptops can reduce this: They can have flash RAM: not a good option, since flash is slowe…
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