> No idea why I woke up thinking about this but thought I'd share it with > you all. > > A 1 is stored in RAM by charging a capacitor, so the capacitor is full > of electrons. That means if you set every bit in a 1G machine to 1 > then it has to weigh more than if you set them all to 0. That would > mean that at any point your computer is getting heavier or lighter > depending on what it is working on. > > Is that right or am I talking rubbish? > > Robin > _______________________________________________
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