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I travel with strict luggage limits (both size and weight) and hike all day. Removing weight absolutely helps.

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The differenxe between a "heavy" and "light" laptop is about 250 grams, or the weight of a single apple.

If you can hike all day there is no way you are weak enough for this to even register.

You most certainly aren't familiar with heavy laptops.

Now you've made me think of the Mac Portable, aka Boat Anchor.

("Am I chopped liver?!" yells the shade of the Osborne 1)

I managed to get myself to the point where I could do two slow, deep, controlled pushups in one session.

Hence I have genuinely never even noticed, cared, or paid attention to how much a laptop weighs.

wtf 2 pushups aren't much at all.

Exactly.

Sure, I _could_ carry more weight, but I'm not sure why I'd _want_ to. Why should I sacrifice for example an extra pair of socks or a shirt, when I don't need to? Having a bigger screen or a faster PC doesn't matter more to me in light of that space and weight trade-off. I use a code editor from 1992, a programming language from 1989, and a tiling window manager with no frills. An N100 is more than enough.

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