

So it's a bit of a wash here as in use it won't be a burden and it might give you a few minutes more (depending on what you are doing).

If you are truly leveraging it it will be less load that trying to use your SSD for virtual RAM. Yes, adding RAM will add a bit of load to your system so if you just leave the system in sleep mode and disconnected the MagSafe power adapter it will run the battery down maybe 10 or so minutes sooner. I like this app: Memory Clean2 it also allows you to flush out the stale RAM making more available.Īs to your direct question on battery life penalty.

Here's one tool that can help: Disk Doctor.įrom a RAM perspective, monitoring what is in use, can help you gage if adding RAM is whats needed here.
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