Will RAM affect WEIGHT?

I am going to get an m11x r3, but i was wondering if more ram equals more weight added on to the laptop. I want it to be light, cuz i will be carrying it on my back every day, for the entire day.

Also, will RAM affect gaming experience? I want to play intense games, but im not sure if more RAM will give me a better performance.

 

Ram will add weight but its so minuscule that you can't tell the difference by lifting it.

On your second note, Ram won't truly improve gaming quality depending on how much you already have. If you have 3-4Gb ram, then more will not do anything since games won't use the ram. To have better gaming experience, I would look at common choke points of gaming such as GPU and to a lesser degree CPU.

I'm not sure if you can upgrade the GPU, so take that into consideration on your possible upgrades.

 

8GB RAM is recommended by various review sites for the best gaming experience.

Weight? lol...

Yeah, two sticks will weight you down a few grams more...

 

Yes the ram increases the weight of the laptop, however, the weight increase will be insignificant. The laptop weighs about 2kg (4.4 lbs) so if max out the ram it might be 4.5 pounds.

 

See:
1GB, 2GB and 4GB PC3-10600 DDR3-1333 Low-Halogen SODIMM Memory - Overview


0.4 KG for 25 modules and the carton it ships in.

ie. less than 0.016 KG per sodimm.


Also, keep in mind that if you got:

2GB with 2x 1GB modules,
4GB with 2x 2GB modules, or
8GB with 2x 4GB modules

The weight will be less than 20 grams difference between all those.

 

sorry im a noob... i remember getting more memory on my mac back in 2006 and it like doubled my laptops weight...

 

You must be thinking HDD, not RAM?

 

RAM module may weigh 0.016KG when it is not in your computer but it`s weight increase with how much you use it. It is 0.0002 kg per MB, which means that if you plan on using 2000MB (2GB), the RAM will weigh 400 gram. 4GB will weigh 800 gram, almost a kilo.

That is why we encourage people to never buy more RAM than what you absolutely need.

 

What the eff. Your calculations are way off dude.

 

I can't tell if this is serious.

It's not magic. It doesn't turn into unicorn dust or anything. If you drink a pound of water, you will weigh a pound more.

 

What if I eat a pound of ice cream?

 

Well if it's "low fat", you should be fine.

 

lol nice

make this man a mod

 

HAHA.

I'm pretty sure that my laptop does not weigh more once I've turned it on and 1GB of RAM is consumed. Those 1's and 0's must be a lot heavier than those that are stored on different types of media.

What does this mean about my 4GB flash drive and my 8GB SD card? Can I fill them with data and then use them in liu of lifting weights?

 

Yes.

10 chara

 

Best thread ever!

 

Lol...
As others already stated, adding RAM will increase it's weight, but it will be so insignificant that you won't notice it either way.

RAM may or may not affect gaming experience.
4GB is enough for most tasks and games, however, 8GB is the new 'sweet spot' (especially if you are using x64 OS) and highly recommended.

 

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Also keep your battery drained. Charging it will make it become way more heavier.


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So how much more does my SSD weigh when it's full of data?

John

 

Laptop memory / RAM on SODIMM's will weigh you down just about as much as a pen or pencil would in your jacket's pocket It's the destkop RAM that weighs more (though still low) due to the additional length and heatspreaders.

 

Do you ever care about a desktop's weight? I wouldn't mind if it weighs 100 pounds... When I had a desktop I remember that it stayed on the same place for several years.


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Really enjoying the thread!

I recently moved a desktop (server) that I wished was only 100lbs. I think the case empty is ~30 lbs.

With a full size case (36" height), dual redundant 1200W power supplies and 16 HDD's, I would say I do care about a desktop's weight - when it is me that has to work on it.

 

Well this is something the engineers that made the flash memory thought through. You see, when you recieve the SSD in mail or whenever you purchase it in a hardware store, it is practically weightless. So they are very easy to install in your computer and is especially designed for those fragile, puny and muscleless nerd hands.
I know there is some competition going on right now around the world about who is the strongest and can install the fullest SSD in a computer. That is the reason why SSDs are so bloody expensive. Not only are they fast, but the SSDs is also built to handle the extreme weight. Which brings us to the next point.

Have you guys seen the datacenters around the world? Here is a picture so that you can understand how it all works:

You see those huge blocks? I have often pondered why they are so big. Well like SSDs they are fortified and made of steel, because that is the only material that can withstand the enormous weight of data. Think about the google servers who serve all the youtube viewers out there. Trillions of MB of data. Just imagine all that weight!! When you watch a movie at youtube, the data from those servers goes through their massive cables and in to your RAM and your computer gets heavier. When you close the windows with youtube after you are done, the remaining data on the RAM goes back through your ethernet cable and back to the youtube servers again and your system clears your RAM making it lighter again and ready for carrying in your backpack for example. That is why every network have something called "upload". It is a service that sends the weight and data back to the servers again. Brilliant how it all fits together right?

Now you might wonder how on earth can our computers handle this, or even our cables that transfer all of this data. Like I said earlier 1 MB flash memory weighs 0.0002KG or 0.2 gram. Now with this crazy development we are facing with internet, we have home networks that can transfer 10MB/s. That means that the cable have to support 2 grams/second which is very little. Genious huh? And here is something other that you guys probably haven`t thought about. You know the fiber cables that connects the continents right. Have you all noticed that they go under the sea? I tell you that is not a coincidence but another brilliant example of engineering. The reason why they put them there, many meters under the surface is because the water pressure is so intense that it is strong enough to withstand the power from several Tbps of data that is transfered every second. Just imagine it, the cables from Europe to US is around 5Tbps (500 000MB/s), that is 100KG going through that cable every second. Extreme power. That cable would bounce like crazy if we just put it on the ground.
Here is a map of the sea cables if you want to learn about weight and data:
Greg's Cable Map

 

I repeat:

Make this man a mod.

 

This thread is epic

 

I don't personally, no but the original poster seems to if he thinks laptop RAM is going to weigh him down, which is lighter than desktop RAM.

A heavy desktop can still be a pain though, say you need to place your tower case on its side quite a few times because you keep trying out new hardware. With four hard drives, two graphics cards, an upmarket PSU and high-end CPU cooler let alone sturdy case it sure can weigh in when complete.

 

Cloudfire,

Your knowledge is impeccable!

I'm just wondering if you're taking into account the force of all that data travelling at/near the speed of light? Will we eventually create a black hole on earth?

Is this why all the major carriers don't want us to have unlimited bandwidth? To save us from ourselves?

Should we be sending everything in the most compressed format possible? All those grams of data flying back and forth are surely going to be our undoing!

In the picture you posted above, is each rectangle ONE SSD? Did they all swell up to room size proportions from all that data?

Is this why we can't have much higher than 300/600GB SSD's for our notebooks? And why it is always harder to remove an SSD/HDD after it is full?

So many questions - but you have the answers!

Picking myself off the floor and drying my eyes while I eagerly wait for your next post. (Hope it isn't too 'heavy' ).

 

Lol, better be careful, some ram uses twice the chips to achieve more storage, that's got to weigh a whole gram more! You could pull your back with that difference!

Also no wonder our power supplies are getting so large! Converting all that energy to mass, with that network connection you are looking at 1.8x10^14 joules every second.

That's 1.8x10^14 watts or 1,800 terrawatts! If you break your network cable and the mass converts back to energy the world could end!

 

Yes additional RAM will affect weight, no you will not notice the difference.