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 hibernation allowed the RAM to power off by dumping the memory on hard drive which would keep that data even when turned off (at the cost of time in transporting the data).
Best Answer
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:
Modern laptops have a series of states of sleep, which means they store less and less in RAM unswapped.