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    using 1 gb ram with vista home premium

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by suprat, Jan 28, 2008.

  1. suprat

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    would having 1 gb ram with vista home premium cause poor battery life?
     
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    RAM doesn't affect battery life much. I recommend you use 2GB of RAM for Vista, but you can get by with 1GB.
     
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    i find the computer is constantly loading something... and as it loads the battery meter flucuates... soo would having 2gb stop the constant loading?
     
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    What is your computer?
     
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    t61 120 gb 5400 nvidia 1 gb
     
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    and with 1 gb turbo memory
    C2D 7300
     
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    Figure that RAM takes less battery power to operate than the HDD continuously reading/writing to the page file because there's insufficient RAM installed to begin with.

    With current RAM prices as low as they are, it wouldn't hurt to max out the RAM for extra crazy good measure.
     
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