Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> wrote in news:michelle-
43E34E.21482401092010@news.eternal-september.org:
> In article <i5n9o9$irg$1@news.eternal-september.org>,
> "JKConey" <jkconey@verizon.net> wrote:
>
>> You don't see any battery life degrading, even with a couple dozen
open?
>
> Not any more than with none open.
>
That's reasonable. Refreshing memory location with 00000000 or 01101101
takes the same power as long as you don't CHANGE what's stored there.
Having a static app loaded that's locked in the off position takes no
more power than refreshing memory that's all 0s or all 1s. Writing new
data to memory consumes more power. Michelle is actually saving power by
NOT shutting down apps sitting static in background! When she shuts down
an app or apps, it writes to memory using more power. The battery would,
in this static shutdown not true multitasking device, be saved leaving
the apps open....as long as they're doing nothing just sitting there.
People seem to forget that dynamic memory is constantly being refreshed
so it doesn't forget what's loaded upon it thousands of times per second.