On Fri, 2007-09-14 at 11:58 +1000, Robert Collins wrote: > On Fri, 2007-09-14 at 11:18 +0930, Michael Davies wrote: > > On 14/09/2007, Jeff Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > <quote who="Erik de Castro Lopo"> > > > > > > > James Dumay wrote: > > > > > > > > > They are not heavy.... MacBook Pros are. > > > > > > > > Next SLUG meeting, how about we compare the weight of your machine > > > > against > > > > my Dell or Robert's Dell? > > > > > > I challenge you both to a fight with wet newspapers. > > > > > > (MacBook Pros are wrapped in metal. MacBooks are wrapped in plastic. Heavy > > > plastic!) > > > > Bah! According to http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/specs.html and > > http://www.apple.com/macbook/specs.html ... > > > > Mac Book 13" > > Total weight: 2.31kg > > Weight / inch of screen: 0.177 kg/inch > > > > Mac Book Pro 15" > > Total weight: 2.45kg > > Weight / inch of screen: 0.163 kg/inch > > > > Mac Book Pro 17" > > Total weight: 3.08kg > > Weight / inch of screen: 0.181 kg/inch > > > > So it all depends on whether you're talking about the 15" or 17" MBP > > in comparison to the MB :-) > > Sounds like a choice from '1.5 times heavier to 2.5 times heavier' :)
You are all pussies. When I was a boy, we used to carry our laptops in backpacks and only complain if they were over 30kg. That didn't include the tty you had to carry seperately and the spare valves. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
