There are many lightweight laptops available in the market introduced by the manufacturers to satisfy traveler users that demand the lightest laptop to help them do the tasks while on the go and powerful to do the computing processes in the office.
With lightweight laptop, you will not have to carry heavy burden while walking along the hotel hallways, walking along from store to store looking for the gifts or wherever you go with your laptop. Moreover, the burden of the laptop would be lighter if you put it in the backpack. Backpackers would thank to the lightest laptop while on the go.
Brand new laptops today are getting lighter with the use of solid state drive (SSD) replacing the metal-based spinning hard drive. With the use of SSD for your laptop storage, the weight of the laptop reduces significantly. The advantages of the SSD storage compared with traditional hard drive storage are:
- Random access time much faster
- Read latency is low
- Read consistency doesn’t change
- No fragmentation issue
- Lightweight and less power consumption.
But SSD storage is costly. As up to Dec 2011 it comes up to 2TB but typically the capacity comes in 64GB and 256GB installed in the laptops. Lightweight laptops use SSD as their storage device, so should you looking for the lightest laptop – make sure that it is loaded with SSD storage.
The following three lightweight laptops introduced by Apple, Samsung and Acer and each of them is the lightest laptop in its class. The table 1 compares the manufacturer’s spec each of them to help you have better understanding about the products.
Acer Aspire S Series S3-951-6646
Aspire S3-951-6646 is one of the lightweight laptops in Acer Aspire S Series. It is designed with Acer Green instant On technology to reduce the restart and shutting down time. The sleep mode reduces the battery consumption significantly and even in deep sleep mode (8 hours after the sleep mode) you can conserve the battery to live for 50 days.
The Acer S series is thin as slim as 13 mm (0.51″) and is lightweight in less than 3.1 lb (1, 406 grams).
Highlights:
- Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium – 64-bit version
- Intel® Core™ i5-2467M Processor 1.6GHz with Turbo Boost technology up to 2.3GHz
- 4GB Dual-Channel SDRAM
- 320GB hard drive – 20GB SSD drive
- 13.3″ HD Widescreen CineCrystal™ LCD display (1366 x 768)
- Intel® HD Graphics 3000 – Mobile Intel® UM67 Express
- Built-in stereo speakers – Dolby Home Theater® v4 audio enhancement
- Webcam
- Multi-gesture touchpad
- 802.11b/g/n WLAN & Bluetooth®; HDMI® – USB; 2-in-1 card reader
- 3-cell battery
Click here for Acer Aspire S3-951-6646 spec details.
New Version Apple Macbook Air
Apple offers you two types of high performance laptops you can trust: Apple Macbook Air and Apple Macbook Pro. Macbook Air is one of the best lightweight laptops available in the market today. Mac loyal users will not easily change to other brands because they know Apple offers brilliant products they can trust. For example to support small office server they prefer Apple Mac Mini server rather than others.
New generation of Apple Macbook Air uses latest generation of Core i5 and Core i7 Intel processors with faster memory providing up to 2.5x better performance than the previous generation. As like other Intel new generation processors, Macbook Air come with integrated HD graphic 3000 right on the processor delivers up to 3x faster than previous generation Intel graphics.
Main features:
- Powered by latest generation of Intel processors Core i5 or Core i7
- Ultrafast thunderbolt I/O – high speed data transfer up to 12 times faster than FireWire 800 and up to 20 times faster than USB 2.0
- 64GB SSD storage for light and fast storage
- Backlight keyboard
- Multi-touch trackpad
- Display, camera and speakers
- Long lasting battery
- Connection and ports
Apple Macbook Air integrated with wireless dual band adapter. for maximum wireless connectivity with your Wi-Fi network, you should use wireless dual band router such as Apple Airport Extreme, Netgear Wndr4500 N900 router or Linksys E4200 N750 router.
Click here for Apple Macbook Air spec details.
Samsung Series 9 11.6″ Laptop
Unlike other lightweight laptops which are generally covered with Aluminum enclosure, Samsung Series 9 comes with Duralumin enclosure (twice the strength of aluminum) to give you the lightweight laptop ever made before. Among the three laptops, this Samsung is the lightest laptop.
Main features:
- Powered by latest generation of Intel Core i5 processor
- Duralumin enclosure for better strength and lighter
- 64GB SSD storage for fast processing
- Gives you nice experiences with vivid contents
- Up to 7 hours battery life
- stylist and convenience multi-touch SuperButton clickpad
With the weight as light as 2.34 lbs (1, 061.4 g), this is the lightest laptop comparing with the other two but Apple Macbook Air is the slimmest one.
Click here for Samsung series 9 spec details.
Table 1 shows comparison between Apple Macbook Air Vs Samsung Series 9 Vs Acer Aspire S Series
| Apple Macbook Air 11-inch | Samsung Series 9 11.6″ Laptop | Aspire S Series S3-951-6646 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price | Start $999.00 | Start $1,049.00 | Start $899.99 |
| Processor | 1.6GHz dual-core Intel Core i5 with 3MB shared L3 cache | Intel® Core™ i3 Processor 2357M | Intel Core i5-2467M 1.6GHz Dual core with 3Mb cache with 64-bit |
| Memory | 2GB of 1333MHz DDR3 onboard memory | 2GB DDR3 | 4GB DDR3 SDRAM DDR3-1333/PC3-10666 |
| OS | OS X Lion with built-in recovery tools | Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium (64-bit) | Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium |
| Display | 11.6-inch high-resolution LED-backlit glossy widescreen up to 1366 by 768 (16:9 aspect ratio) – up to 1024 by 768 (4:3) | 11.6-inch SuperBright Plus widescreen display HD LED Backlit anti-glare display | 13.3″ Active Matrix TFT Color LCD WXGA Intel shared DDR3 SDRAM |
| Storage | 64GB SSD | 64GB SSD | 320GB Serial ATA 5400rpm |
| Battery and Power | Advanced lithium-polymer battery with MagSafe power adapter (Up to 5 hours with wireless and web) | 6-Cell Lithium 5680 mAh | 3-cell Lithium Ion 3260mAh |
| Interface | Two USB 2.0 ports & Thunderbolt port | HDMI, 2x USB 2.0 ports, Headphone Out, Microphone In, RJ45 (LAN), 1 MicroSD port | 2x USB 2.0 ports and HDMI port |
| Connectivity | IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n compatible and Bluetooth 4.0 | IEEE 802.11 b/g/n WiFi, Bluetooth V3.0 High Speed | IEEE 802.11b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.0 |
| Dimension (HxWxD) | (0.11-0.68)-inch x 11.8-inch x 7.56-inch / (0.3-1.7)cm x 30cm x 19.2cm | (0.62~0.65)-inch x 11.7-inch x 7.8-inch / (1.57~ 1.65)-cm x 29.7 cm x 19.8cm | 0.7-inch x 12.7-inch x 8.6-inch / 1.778 cm x 32.258 cm x 21.85 cm |
| Weight | 2.38 pounds (1,080 g) | 2.34 lbs (1, 061.4 g) | 3.1 lb (1 ,406g) |
With SSD storage, the weight of the laptops becomes much lighter than traditional laptops with metal-based hard drive storage.
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