Users can buy lighter equipment from Toshiba or Sony, but they can hardly achieve the charming beauty like Apple MacBook Air , weighing 1.36 kg, 13.3 inch wide screen and costing 1,800 USD. Photo: Tech2 .
Toshiba Portégé R500-S5007V 12.1 inch weighs only 1 kg thanks to its 128 GB SSD. Price: 3,000 USD. Photo: Forbes .
If an entrepreneur needs a fully functional laptop to be compact for ease of travel, Lenovo Thinkpad X300 will be the first choice. This 1.3 kg device has a 64 GB hard drive, DVD burner and Intel's latest dual-core processor. Price: USD 2,664.
The HP Voodoo Envy 133 weighs 1.54 kg but is only 1.78 cm thin. The product is priced at $ 2,099, more expensive than the MacBook Air but equipped with more parts, not to mention the carbon fiber case and the sensor that adjusts the screen brightness. Photo: Gizmodo .
Dell XPS M1330 is the most "heavy" competitor because it weighs 1.8 kg but has the lowest price: 999 USD. It supports optical drive (not included in MacBook Air) and 2.4 cm thin. Photo: Digiworld .
Sony VGN-TZ is only 1.2 kg, in which the consumer-oriented TZ200 version costs $ 1,700 while the high-end TZ line up to $ 3,500. Photo: Forbes .