Weight Comparison
| Model | Weight (grams) | Screen Size |
|---|---|---|
| LG Gram Pro 16 (2026) | 1,199 | 16-inch |
| MacBook Air 15 (M4/M3) | 1,510 | 15-inch |
| MacBook Pro 14 (M5/M3) | 1,550-1,600 | 14-inch |
| MacBook Pro 16 (M3+) | 2,140-2,200 | 16-inch |
| Model | Weight (grams) | Screen Size |
|---|---|---|
| LG Gram Pro 16 (2026) | 1,199 | 16-inch |
| MacBook Air 15 (M4/M3) | 1,510 | 15-inch |
| MacBook Pro 14 (M5/M3) | 1,550-1,600 | 14-inch |
| MacBook Pro 16 (M3+) | 2,140-2,200 | 16-inch |
You need internals protected from basic shock. Macbooks are notoriously very poor regarding drops while you can play volleyball with a plastic thinkpad.
Just don’t drop your laptop lmao, how hard can it be?
I’ve never dropped my Thinkpad even, and those are actually easier to accidentally trip over since they don’t have Magsafe.
Also I’ve seen hundreds of dented Macbooks work completely fine. Same with plastic laptops like the Thinkpad and Elitebook except they’d usually have a hole or crack in the corner after the drop instead of a dent.
This is a common security fallacy as sure you might not drop your laptop like you’re not crashing your car but once you hit something it’s nice to have airbags right? People pay several thousand dollars to recover hard drives of dropped laptops and can you imagine being in such stressful position? So a bit of safety goes a long way.
You may not want to, but when you get food poisoning and have to run to the bathroom to throw up, you may knock the laptop over
I kinda get your point, but:
Not a high enough fall to cause actual* damage usually.
Tiny bit less likely to happen on a Mac because while you can still knock the laptop over, you’re WAY less likely to trip over the cable and pull it down. Magsafe is a godsend and I wish more manufacturers used it. I wish it was standardized.
* To the internals of the laptop, anyway. For the external bits: this is actually where the aluminium body is better than plastic. If it DOES deform, at the heights my laptops would usually be, it’s such a tiny dent nobody will notice it most of the time. Cheap plastic laptops would develop a literal hole. Particularly nasty with laptops that don’t easily come apart into a top and bottom case assembly. Something like a Thinkpad is excellent here though, because the bottom case comes off first when disassembling and it’s more likely to take damage than the palmrest.
Once you get to really big falls, plastic laptops are better because the internals are better protected. I don’t really throw my laptops out of 3rd story windows though. But if I worked at like a construction site, I’d absolutely prefer my laptop to be either something like a Toughbook, or a Thinkpad X240 or X250. I think Lenovo stopped making them as tough as those old models were, but I could be wrong. Those things you could easily drive over with a tractor lol
The damage is usually to the laptop charging port. Magsafe for PCs when?