Can someone with a scale and an antiglare MBP report on the weight of their units? I'm curious to know if there is a significant weight reduction from the removal of the glass. 0.1-0.2 lbs might not be so significant but if the weight goes down by 0.5 lbs or something I'd be inclined to get antiglare just for the weight reduction since I'm always on the move with my laptop.
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Weight reduction with antiglare screen
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It will weigh definitely less than 226g, as the whole computer only weighs 2540g. That would be an eleventh of the overall weight.
It will weigh around 20g to 50g.
http://www.onlineconversion.com/weight_common.htm
It will weigh around 20g to 50g.
http://www.onlineconversion.com/weight_common.htm
I dunno... glass is pretty heavy and there's a lot of surface area on the glossy screens. I'd expect at least 0.3 lbs, but I guess there's no use speculating. Hopefully someone will post hard numbers
Glass can be made of many materials, and some are quite light.
I had the glossy 15" uMBP once and if you knock against the glass, it sounds more like plastic.
It is roughly a 0.5lb reduction without the glossy panel.
13" MBP = 4.5lbs
15" MBP Anti-glare = 5lbs.
15" MBP Glossy = 5.6lbs
13" MBP = 4.5lbs
15" MBP Anti-glare = 5lbs.
15" MBP Glossy = 5.6lbs
I personally weighed the machines myself. There was a thread on the topic about the weight reduction when the anti-glare option was first made available last year on the unibody 15" MBP.
If you are right, that the antiglare weighs 5.0 lbs even, for a 15" laptop, that is ridiculously amazing considering it has the equivalent of an extended 8 cell battery self-contained. I would be very amazed.
The weight of a 15" AG Macbook Pro is exactly 21 grams lighter than a Macbook Pro with the glossy display, glass intact.
....because a Macbook Pro without the glossy display has clearly lost its soul.
....because a Macbook Pro without the glossy display has clearly lost its soul.
Okay, thanks for the confirmation.
It will be most likely not glass, as even the "glass" on my iMac does sound like plastic and weighs almost nothing.
Good to know, thanks for the info. I was very curious about this myself. It's crazy that my new 15" is going to weigh only 0.5 lbs more than my 13" unibody MacBook!
If the glass only weights 21 grams or less than one ounce. A 5.6 lbs MacBook pro is now at best 5.5 lbs. It sounds like the person that thought it lost .6 lbs was probably using a bathroom scale.
repeat afer me, i should always check the link before posting...
.... i should always check the link before posting...i should always check the link before posting..... i should always check the link before posting...
I was surfing on my iPod, so I was too lazy to click the link. I guess I should have known from the lost soul comment.
Would the SSD be heavier? Just purchased a new macbook pro 15" and was curious to know as well and found this thread. My anti glare with 250gb SSD weighs in at 5 lb 5 oz. Wonder how people are getting an even 5lbs.
Old thread, but I just researched the same. The only accurate information I found was the following:
from http://www.notebookcheck.net/Review...1-2-0-GHz-Quad-Core-Matte-Screen.49689.0.html
This is about 2.5 oz or 0.15 lbs.
I'm still not sure how accurate this is. Also part of the weight difference could be due to different components, i.e. SSD vs. HDD. It's probably not 0.5 lbs though, as claimed by others here.
Anyone with a matte display and an accurate scale?
from http://www.notebookcheck.net/Review...1-2-0-GHz-Quad-Core-Matte-Screen.49689.0.html
This is about 2.5 oz or 0.15 lbs.
I'm still not sure how accurate this is. Also part of the weight difference could be due to different components, i.e. SSD vs. HDD. It's probably not 0.5 lbs though, as claimed by others here.
Anyone with a matte display and an accurate scale?
I would've the thought the opposite - an SSD should be a little lighter than an HDD, no? The difference will probably be quit small, though - 50g?