We do find the hype and hysteria to be funny. In our description which follows, we will try to explain the technology in a way which is easy to understand, but still technically correct. Another way to think of it is that hardware has mass and a physical weight. You can measure the weight of hardware on a scale. For instance you can place a processor or a hard drive on a scale to measure its weight.
Software has no weight.
A hard drive or diskette fully loaded with software weighs the same as one which is completely blank. The function of software is to tell the processor what actions to perform. Except for what might be loaded onto the hard drive, there is nothing typically considered software in a computer. The logic of the motherboard simply controls the movement of signals. You load and run software which then tells the microcode in the processor what actions to take.