Uh, Christian, as far as I can remember Apple has never made an ultraportable laptop (less than 4 pounds). Their smallest laptop is the 12 inch powerbook at 4.6 pounds. The following manufacturers make lighter laptops with an optical drive and at least 12 in. screen: Dell (710m), Sony (SZ), Fujitsu (S7000, S2000, and S6000), Panasonic (W2 and Y2), and various other companies like ASUS and Samsung. Apples are nice machines, but certainly not the best in terms of portability (a 12 inch iBook is 5 lbs., I had a 14 in. Dell the same weight!).
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OK @ Mar 30th 2006 3:00PM
Uh, Christian, as far as I can remember Apple has never made an ultraportable laptop (less than 4 pounds). Their smallest laptop is the 12 inch powerbook at 4.6 pounds. The following manufacturers make lighter laptops with an optical drive and at least 12 in. screen: Dell (710m), Sony (SZ), Fujitsu (S7000, S2000, and S6000), Panasonic (W2 and Y2), and various other companies like ASUS and Samsung. Apples are nice machines, but certainly not the best in terms of portability (a 12 inch iBook is 5 lbs., I had a 14 in. Dell the same weight!).