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Top Tip! Laptop Weight Increasing With Data !!
Submitted by admin on Sun, 08/09/2009 - 08:56
You gotta help him....
Question:
Apologies if this is the incorrect area for this question.
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.
Thanks in advance!
- K
Source : Microsoft Answers
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Wow!!!
lol WTF? is that true?
Hard Drive Weight DOES NOT and CANNOT Increase
I am A+ certified and have NEVER heard anyone ask this question in my life.
Also, I'm surprised that no one has answered your question after SEVEN MONTHS. Therefore, here is your answer from a computer expert:
Your hard drives in the XBOX and computer work magnetically. They are made up of platters coated with a magnetic substance. When the computer or XBOX reads and writes data to the drive, all it does is just rearranges the molecules already on the drive to represent 1s and 0s. Therefore, there is no possible way that the weight of the hard drive can increase.
An empty hard drive will weigh the SAME as a full hard drive, as those magnetic molecules will still be there. They will just be oriented one way to represent all zeroes (a truly empty drive) and another way to represent your data with various 1s and 0s (such as 11100101111001111101011101).
I am sorry that you have a bad back, but laptops only weigh about 4 to 8 pounds on average (depending on model and features ----- battery is usually the heaviest part). An XBOX only weights about 9 pounds. Why don't you try lifting some small 5 to 10 pound weights daily? Then after about a month or so, when you lift your laptop and/or XBOX again, you'll be like, "Hey! This isn't so bad after all!"
Hard Drive Weight DOES NOT and CANNOT Increase
Your information is correct, only difference is that no molecules are re-arranged but simply charges that is magnetic north or south are changed.
True or Not???
Is it true or are you mad?
fail
fail
lol
Judging from his name that's probably just a joke!
Get your Dolly now.
Greetings. The weight to file ratio is generally 1000 to 1. Unless of course you backup online... then you can have thousands of pounds of data without having to carry it everywhere you go.
Retard!!!!
Retard!!!!
Joke
Obviously, someone is playing a joke over the net.
whats the date today??
well, bro, is it April 1st today??
god i hope some one answers
god i hope some one answers this for the guy i have been wonderin that for years
zzz
dude. digital data doesn't add physical weight. epic fail...
This has got to be the
This has got to be the stupidest question I have ever seen. Just let me ask you this; Which weighs more, a pound of information or a pound of stupidity?
Best Answer/leianleian@yahoo.com
yes it does, so don't save images containing fat ppl
funniest thing i have heard!
hey, may be you should screw open your laptop and remove some data... i assume the data is the codeword you use for the dirt/dust or the drops of food that you eat when you network
FAILED
the most failed topic I've ever seen lol makes me laugh so hard
best answer here...
hwahahaha....
This is a real post
This is a real post :D
http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vistahardware/thread/720108ee-0a9c-4090-b62d-bbd5cb1a7605
and there are answers, funny!!!!
excellent answer here..
if that is the case.. your brain should be weighing 1000 f-----g tons a---le...
B S N
a simple answer to the above question is no,a very definite NO .Why ? Data is written in a pattern on the hard disk material ( note i am using ONLY layman terms ) and there is no addition of any new physical material.Only the arrangement of the physical material is done in a particular manner that comes across as specific data when read by an optical device.No addition of any physical material means weight remains the same.Now can the weight of the hard disc actually decrease with years of usage ? yes , just like all material that runs or is used it does tend to loose minute amounts over time, but i guess then nobody bothered to check that out !
the weight of digital data
When you're in a laboratory, and mark your test tube with a marker, does it gain weight?
When you have a new realization about your life, and you understand a universe of ideas that you weren't aware before, does your brain gain weight?
when a neutrino crosses a sea of Higgs particles, does it gain weight?
All these questions can be answer by the LHC, the Largest Hadron Collision setup en CERN. Ask them.
A concerned citizen for the health of people who ask this type of questions.
Oh dear...
This guy's stupidty levels are OVER 9000!!!!
Stupidly Intelligent Postings and Commercial ...
the answers are wonderfully intelligently stupid ... I love it ... John B
I will test this
I have an external hard drive and I Have Noticed that it does feel heaver the more I put on so I will video tape me putting 30GB on my external hard drive when it is on a scale to prove or disprove this issue once and for all I will post a link to it on youtube soon. :-)
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