The Toshiba has created what it calls the world’s lightest laptop Portégé R500-S5007V, which now pits the company against vendors like Apple and Levono. It is announced by Toshiba that its newly launched ultra-portable laptop weighs just 2.4 pounds or 1.08 kilograms. Comparatively MacBook Air by Apple weighs three pounds, whereas Thinkpad X300 of Levono weighs 3.93 pounds. As per Toshiba, Portégé R500-S5007V laptop at its thinnest point measures just 0.77 inches. Toshiba also states that the its new laptop is the very first to comprise of a 128G-byte solid-state drive (SSD) to replace the hard drive. Till now laptops have had only 64G bytes of storage.

 

Apple and Levono, however, provide 128G of storage but through a combination of two 64G-byte modules. It was also informed by Toshiba that its laptop can run for eight hours straight on a single charge battery. The trans-reflective 12.1-inch screen of the new Toshiba laptop also helps save battery life as it shuts down the light-emitting diode backlighting by reflecting the rays of the sun to light up screen. Those interested will get a Toshiba laptop supported by an Intel Core 2 Duo U7700 processor at 1.33GHz, with 2M bytes of cache and 2G bytes of RAM at US $2,999. Furthermore, the Portégé R500-S5007V laptop will have the Windows Vista Business OS that can also be changed with Windows XP Professional. Apart from bluetooth facility, this laptop flaunts in-built features designed to protect the device during falls.