BTW, have you noticed that manufacturers are not calling them "laptops" anymore? Since people burned their thighs, they are legally covering their butts by calling them "notebooks" now. That's what I hear.
Note one on the books: they really need to find some space-age materials to make 'em from. I just digged out my 15-inch MacBook Pro, and gawd, is it a monster! We need something as strong/stiff as aluminium, but 25% the weight at most.
(Heck, even my old 12-inch Powerbook seems big and heavy after dealing for a while with the Airbook and the Pad.) (Note: "Powerbook" has a PowerPC processor, and "MacBook" (whether pro or not) has an Intel processor. The latter are newer and much better.)
Second note: if you have a notebook that you're not using regularly, or which is always plugged in, I recommend that you once a month or so let the battery run down and charge it up again. It keeps it alive. I'd neglected this too long with my 15-incher, and now the bat is dead! dead! dead! It's so dead the machine reports "no battery found"!
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There's Apple's MacBook Air. There are also several Windows competitors making computers of similar size and shape, including MSI. They all weigh around three pounds. That's quite a bit less than the current 15" MacBook pro, which weighs 5.6 pounds. Even the 13 inch MacBook Pro is 4.5 pounds. The 12 inch Powerbooks are 4.6 pounds.
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