Lenovo Says New Ultrabook Thinner Than MacBook Air

From PC World: Lenovo has jumped on Intel's "Ultrabook" bandwagon, announcing a new IdeaPad on Thursday that the company said is thinner than Apple's celebrated MacBook Air.

The IdeaPad U300S has a 13.3-inch display and is the slimmest laptop on the market, said Michael Littler, marketing lead at Lenovo's product group consumer marketing. The U300S is 0.59 inches thick (1.49 centimeters) and weighs 2.2 pounds (0.99 kilograms), Lenovo said. The 13-inch MacBook Air is 0.68 inches thick and weighs 2.96 pounds.

The U300S comes with a choice of low-power Intel processors. It provides up to eight hours of battery life during active use and 30 hours on standby. The starting price is US$1,200, and the laptop will start to ship in mid-October, with worldwide availability set for November, Lenovo said.

The Ultrabook is the name for a new class of thin and light laptops being promoted by Intel. It's been seen as a way for Intel to revive interest in laptops, sales of which have slowed due to the popularity of tablets, and Apple's iPad in particular.

The U300S runs on a low-power Intel Core processor based on the Sandy Bridge microarchitecture. In Lenovo's presentation slides, two dual-core processors were listed as options, including the Core i7 2677M, which runs at 1.8GHz and has 4MB of cache, and the Core i5 2467M, which runs at 1.6GHz and has 3MB of cache. The storage options include solid-state drives with capacity of up to 256GB.

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