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The Lenovo LaVie Z series laptops don't seem so unusual in these days of super-slim Ultrabooks—that is, until you pick one up.
There are two LaVie Zs, both with 13-inch screens, one with an Intel Core i7 chip, a touchscreen, and a fold-back-upon-itself, double hinge similar to the one found in Lenovo's original Yoga series of laptops. The other LaVie Z has no touchscreen and a regular hinge. The former, at 2.04 pounds, would have taken the prize for one of the lightest laptops we've seen recently—but the latter is even lighter! At 1.72 pounds it is definitively the lightest laptop available by a long shot—more than 40 percent lighter than the 13-inch Apple MacBook Air.
Held in the hands, LaVie Z laptops feel as if they were clad in plastic, but they actually are constructed of a magnesium-lithium alloy, which Lenovo claims is 50 percent lighter than aluminum. Both models come with 128 GB SSD drives. The touchscreen model costs $1,500, the non-touchscreen model $1,300.
—Glenn Derene
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