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I've noticed that as I copy data/install programs on my Laptop, the weight of the Laptop increases.




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I've noticed that as I copy data/install programs on my Laptop, the weight of the Laptop increases.



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I've noticed that as I copy data/install programs on my Laptop, the weight of the Laptop increases.



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I've noticed that as I copy data/install programs on my Laptop, the weight of the Laptop increases.

I have a bad back and am medically limited on the amount of weight I can carry so I need to be very

carefull not to inflict injury upon myself.

I have also noticed my XBox feels heavier as well (the more games I save or purchase from arcade).

I generally don't travel with my XBox so that is not an issue for me,

but note the I am having the same results.

My ask, what is the weight/file ratio?

So for example, how many GB's = 6oz? I dread the day I need a dolly to commute to work with my Laptop.


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//response 1


Hi,

Thank you for posting on our Forum.

If we understand your question correctly, there is no possible way that copying files or installing programs

is increasing the weight of your laptop. Also, the same with your Xbox, downloading games from the Arcade will

not increase the weight of your Game Console.


Just to explain a little bit more as to why the hard drive will not âgain weightâ;

if you were to look inside a hard drive you would see what would resemble a record player.

There are small platters that resemble the record then you have a read/write head attached to an arm.

The platters are coated with tiny magnetic particles when the hard drive gets "written on" the read/write head

simply alters the polarity of the millions of different little sections on different parts of the hard drive.

So when you write on a hard drive you don't really "Write" on it, you rearrange things on it,

and because of that the weight doesnât change.

If we are misunderstanding your question please clarify so that we may further assist you.




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//response 2

If you have very large files, you can compress them and then compress the compressed file etc.

until the files are down to 1 byte. That should make you laptop lighter than when you bought it!

I use this trick all the time so that I can save my entire music collection on a 5-1/4" floppy (yeah, I found a use for them :-)

Every Gigabyte counts as 5oz of extra weight for your computer.There are cases (in computers with 1Tb+ of Hard drive)

of people left eMule activated 3 days and when that people returned to the computer,there was a hole in the floor instead.


Maybe you should try a compression software (like 7zip for example) which help reducing the data's weight.

Take care of those P2P software that quickly increase your data.Watch out and be careful.

Use MS-DOS to drastically reduce data weight.


Greetings from Spain!

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I am glad you brought this up actually.

I don't think this is just a technology problem. The other day, I was reading one of those MS press books

(One of the Thick ones) and towards the end of the book (after reading it for about three hours) I wanted

to get up for a glass of water and use the toilet eventually. But, here's when a strange thing happened.

As i was about to get up (I usually read in bed) my head was so heavy that I couldn't get up. I roughly

estimate the wheight increase ~564.32 grams.


Well, I attributed this phenomena to the amount of information that got stored in my brain during that time

(Notice the similarity there ? ) I eventually fell asleep and when I woke up a few hours later to take the

MS exam guess what?!? My head was light again, and I consequently failed the Exam as I couldn't remember

anything a read on that book.

Based on my experience, what I would suggest, is turn the laptop off, leave it like that for a few hours and

then you can carry it around without risking to break your back. You might risk to loose your data but hey,

your health is more important.

I hope that helps


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//response 4

The weight gain is not in the Xbox & Laptop, it is in *you* from all that junk food you are pigging out on

while playing way too many games for way too many hours on your Xbox & Laptop. :-)


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This is a rare error when the overwriting mechanism of the memory banks lead to an overflow of data because

it cannot add on and thus super-stack, increasing the weight significantly. While normal weight/file ratio is

approximately 0.02 oz/GB, in rare cases such as these, it can go as high as somewhere around 6 oz/GB.


One solution is going to the system32 folder (C:\WINDOWS\system32) and deleting certain unnecessary files,

but too much tampering may cause permanent changes to your computer.

Proposed As Answer bykjhgfsrftdrseas Saturday, March 28, 2009 10:32 PMUnproposed As Answer byBarb WinterMSFT,

Saturday, January 24, 2009 1:02 PMClan Epsilon
Guys he's serious, his last name is McLovin, you gotta trust that...


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//response 6

Actually the weight of your hard drive decreases after formatting it for the first time.

On an unformatted hard drive the bits are spread in weird order all over the drive and there's big chaos.

This causes strong magnetic forces and there's a constant push-pull between the bits.

This consumes a lot of energy and according to a smart guy called Einstein energy has weight.

When formatting the drive for the first time the bits are put in order and also stay in order

when writing data to the disk thus the energy decreases and thus

the weight actually decreases and doesn't increase.

P.S. This is fully serious!

Read: http://www.wdr.de/tv/wissen-macht-ah/archiv/kuriosah/compute r.phtml.

Unfortunately the site is in German but I've written the most important part above.



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//response 7

I'm afraid I have to disagree with you (for response 6) on this one. The fact is that the equation to which you refer

(discovered in the XVIIII century, by Lineus Torvaldus) involves gigabytes AND giggawatts

(as opposed to your "jiggawatts" which have been deprecated). The correct form is

"weight of data equals gigabytes divided by giggawatts"
or

wD=g/g

Basic algebra shows that g/g=1, so

wD=1

Divide both sides by D...

w(D/D) = 1/D

thus eliminating (D/D) it renders.

w = 1/D

Which reads: "The weight is the inverse of the Data"

This is the formal mathematical proof that the more data you store, the LESS the computer weights.

If anything, this person should put his hamburger ON TOP of the laptop, to act as a paperwieght.


Forgot to explain:

The fact that the giggawat is spelled with a "g" is because it actually has the same latin root as gigabyte:

"gi" and means "the highest one" as in "ginius" (the highest one in IQ).

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