[P1] Battery draining memory sticks.

[Guy McMickle]

On Friday, January 17, 2003, at 12:03 PM, Brian Pearce wrote:

>
> I'd be very interested if someone could site some sort of statistics 
> as to cause and effect on this; I don't doubt that adding additional 
> RAM causes some slight power drain, but I can't imagine it'd be all 
> that much in the larger context. The first time I'd *ever* heard of 
> this phenomenon was on this list (and even then, it seemed the issue 
> grew out of confusion with OS X's use of *virtual memory,* which would 
> cause increased disc activity that would have a more substantial 
> effect on the battery).
>
>

I thought that the more memory you have, the less cycling of the hard 
disk the system has to do...thereby actually saving battery power.  Am 
I all wrong on this?