Laptop Battery Life

Bourbon Neat

Bourbon Neat

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These two items arrived and have been paired as intended.

http://nikonites.com/off-topic/12528-post-your-latest-purchases-post450290.html#post450290

Wow, very low power draw. Has been running for 7 hours and 35 minutes (according to the battery report in Win 8) and the indicator in the taskbar claims 17% charge remaining. Haven't used any editing software yet but spent a good while surfing and downloading apps, and then installing. View NX-i, controlmynikon, nef codec, Perfect Effects and others. Gotta say these low watt cpu's and ssd's are easy going. And dig this, 6 seconds from OFF to the desktop screen. That is three times as quick as the desktop running Win 7.
 
Bourbon Neat

Bourbon Neat

Senior Member
In addition to battery life, how about memory?

I have a new opinion on memory when using solid state drives. We always went with memory upgrades to increase our system's performance when using the spinner drives. In the last build of this workstation, I used 16GB of memory coupled with a 2-ssd, raid zero. While running batch conversions the resource monitor shows very little (15%) of the 16GB of memory being used. (i7 cpu) My assumption is that the solid state drive does not require the assistance as the spinners do.

Now after just receiving the new laptop and swapping in the ssd, I see no need to add to its 4GB of memory. In fact, while monitoring the resources during a batch conversion, memory usage never exceeded 50%. (i3 cpu)

Does anyone using solid state drives see the same?
 
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