While writing about the Lenovo W700DS in a recent post I needed to know what 11 pounds was, in Kilograms, so turned to a cool freeware utility I use all the time. "Convert" does what it says turning meaningless illogical units into their sane metric equivalents , or the other way if you wish.
I wondered what the "advp" and "troy" was all about so researched the whole Avoirdupois, Troy and other (even metric?*) pounds mess. I'd heard of Troy Ounce before but didn't really know what they meant. The result of that was I found 11 pounds is about 5 Kilograms and I'm thankful I grew up in a metric country. I also think "Convert 2" should include, or link to, definitions of the units being converted.
Convert for Windows // Josh Madison
Convert is a free and easy to use unit conversion program that will convert the most popular units of distance, temperature, volume, time, speed, mass, power, density, pressure, energy and many others, including the ability to create custom conversions!
* It seems some thought 0.5 kg should be be a "Metric Pound". It's actually 1.10231 Pounds so the whole idea seems daft to me. I've never heard it used in New Zealand, maybe elsewhere?
