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I am not following Jason's findings here.
If I understand this, he is saying that an 8% loss of power is roughly equal to a 9% loss. This is not really the case. It may be only off by 1% total, which seems insignificant. But the real comparison is with the baseline of 9% lost in the 4 GB of RAM The 1 GB of RAM used 1/9 less power or 8/9 of the power used by the 4GB, an 11% difference in power use. This indicates a potentially significant difference in power usage and battery life. It is only potentially significant because, as Jason points out, there is a +/- .5% measurement error. The other reason is that it is only one trial, and as such, is either 100% right or 100% wrong. So, statistically it doesn't matter... the reaults are not significant.
Of course, Jason's point is that over 12 hours in sleep mode, this is a small real world usage issue. I guess that it is hard to disagree with the conclusion. So I won't. Maybe I am just splitting hairs tonight.
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Edit: 2007-09-26, 23:47 MDT. Rewording my argument. Sounded like an ass initially. :-)
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