[ELI5]Why Windows laptops back in 20007-2008 were so thick and heavy?

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When the hardware inside isn’t that different from todays laptops

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The hardware actually is a lot different. Back then they required physical hard drives whereas today they use more solid state storage. Those drives are very thick by comparison. Also, battery technology has advanced significantly so batteries today are much thinner. Other components like cpus have gone through improvements allowing for new cpus to be much much smaller in size. When you combine all of these advances, the result is a device that is far smaller than before.

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