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    ASUS U30JC-A1 Battery Life w/upgrades

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by Jamezuh, Jun 17, 2010.

  1. Jamezuh

    Jamezuh Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi guys, I think I have settled in on the idea of sacrificing power, for size, and battery life. I was looking at the ASUS U30JC-A1 and that 9.5 hour estimate of battery life is pretty tempting (if only it had a backlit keyboard :mad:)

    My question is, if I upgraded to say 6 gb of 1333mhz (or possibly 1033) ram, or even just upgraded the 4 gigs of 1033 to 1333 would this affect the battery life much?

    If I were to upgrade the hardrive from a 320gb (5400Rpm) hard drive to a 320 gb (7200 rpm) hard drive, or even to a 500 gb 5400 rpm, or 7200 rpm hard drive, would this effect the battery life much?

    Finally, if I put a blu ray reader in there, would it use more battery life than a standard cd/dvd drive for blu ray discs, and would it use more battery life for regular cd/dvds?

    Thanks for the help in advanced!
     
    Jamezuh, Jun 17, 2010
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    viperabyss Notebook Evangelist

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    DDR3-1333 shouldn't consume more power than DDR3-1033, since both of them share the same memory die, although binned differently. The HDD upgrade, on the other hand, may see a noticeable battery life decline, although I'm not sure exactly how much the impact is. Lastly, Blu-Ray drive does consume a lot of power, since the laser used is high powered. Furthermore, watching high definition video requires decoding from either the CPU or the GPU, both very power hungry. Therefore I think it is safe to say that having Blu-Ray drive in your laptop may compromise its battery life significantly.

    You can read more here:
    Will New Blu-ray Drives Suck Your Laptop Battery Dry?
     
    viperabyss, Jun 17, 2010
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