Laptops have gotten thinner and lighter over the past few years, and there’s no shortage of powerful PCs that weigh less than 3 pounds. But every now and then somebody goes and makes a laptop that weighs less than 2 pounds… which is what Fujitsu’s done with its latest UH series laptops for the Japanese […]
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2.5 pound HP Spectre 13 laptop gets a Kaby Lake-R upgrade
HP is updating its premium thin and light Spectre 13 laptop with a new model that’s faster, offers longer battery life, and features a touchscreen display. The new HP Spectre 13 weighs 2.45 pounds, measures 10.8mm (0.43 inches) thick, and features a quad-core, 8th-gen Intel Kaby Lake Refresh processor. HP has also moved the stereo […]
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Samsung Notebook 9 Pro launches this month for $1099 and up
Samsung unveiled a new line of thin, light, and convertible laptops with pen support last month. And now the new Samsung Notebook 9 Pro models are just about ready to go. You’ll be able to place pre-orders online starting June 11th, and the Samsung Notebook 9 Pro should be available in stores starting June 26th. […]
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Huawei MateBook X is a 13 inch laptop smaller than a sheet of A4 paper
Huawei’s new laptop has a 13 inch display, but its smaller than Apple’s 12 inch MacBook. In fact, measuring 11.3″ x 8.3″ x 0.5″, the Huawei MateBook X is smaller than an A4 sheet of paper (although quite a bit thicker, obviously). That makes the MateBook X one of the smallest 13 inch laptops on the […]
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New HP Envy 13 is a 2.7 pound laptop with slim bezels
HP is updating its Envy line of laptops with a new thin-and-light model featuring a 13 inch display, slim bezels, and a body that measures 0.55 inches thick and weighs 2.7 pounds. The new HP Envy 13 should be available in June, with prices starting at $1050 (or maybe less, according to some websites). […]
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Toshiba launches 2.3 pound, 13.3 inch Portégé X30 laptop
Toshiba’s new Portégé X30 is a compact laptop that weighs 2.3 pounds, measures 0.63 inches thick, and features a 13.3 inch display. But under the hood this little laptop has a lot of power: it’s available with up to a Core i7 Kaby Lake processor, up to 16GB of RAM, and up to 512GB of […]
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System76 Galago Pro Ubuntu ultrabook ships in May, up for pre-order for $899
Linux computer company System76 may starting to design desktops in-house, but it’ll probably be a few years before the company can design and manufacture its own laptops. But the company continues to source existing hardware components and put them to use in computers that ship with Ubuntu Linux. And one of the most interesting new models from […]
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LG Gram 2017 ultralight notebooks go on sale for $1000 and up
The latest LG Gram laptops are now available for purchase in the US, with prices starting at $1,000 for an entry-level model. LG’s Gram line of computers get their name from their extraordinarily light weight: historically the laptops have weighed about one kilogram, or roughly 2.2 pounds. The new 2017 models LG unveiled at CES […]
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Asus Zenbook 3 Deluxe coming in May for $1699
The AsusPro B9440 business laptop isn’t the only new 14 inch laptop from Asus with a slim design and the chassis of a 13 inch notebook. The company has also unveiled a new consumer-oriented model called the Zenbook 3 Deluxe. The laptop measures about half an inch thick and weighs about 2.4 pounds, a and […]
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Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon (2017) coming in February for $1350 and up
As expected, Lenovo is updating its ThinkPad X1 Carbon thin-and-light laptop for 2017. The new model is lighter and smaller than its predecessors, but it still packs powerful specs. Lenovo placed super-slim bezels around the sides of the screen, allowing the company to squeeze a 14 inch display into a laptop the size of a […]