Thinnest Laptop in the World?….Pffft!!

Published on January 15, 2008 in Hardware, MS/Apple by Rami Taibah

Well Steve Jobs just finished his keynote speech announcing the much rumored Macbook Air. which measures 0.16-inches at its thinnest point, while its maximum height of 0.76-inches! Impressive huh?? Apple are touting the MBA as the thinnest laptop in the world. Or is it?

Steve Jobs Unvieling the Macbook Air in CES 2008

Steve Jobs Unvieling the Macbook Air in CES 2008

Actually Sony produced the Vaio PCG-X505 back in 2004. This laptop boasted a .38″ to .8″ thickness! Pretty much comparable to the 2008 Apple wonder eh? And that was 4 years back!

Vaio PCG-X505

The Toshiba Portege r200 measures 11.3 inches wide, 9 inches deep, and 0.8 inch thick:

Toshiba Portege r200

The Asus U3S-A1B is also worthy of a mention, it is around 1.26 inches thick also:

Asus U3S-A1B

And for the grand finale, Sharp had an ultranotebook (PC-UM20) back in 2002 boasting an impressive .65 inch thickness! That’s .13 inches less than Macbook Air! At what cost? only $1700 only! (Thanks AdRy from digg)

Hmmm, so whats all the fuss about? So we have a 6 year old laptop that’s already thinner, and around two thirds of the price. Sony had an almost identically slim model 4 years ago, Toshiba already offers a .8 inch model, and Asus has a model thats a 1/3 of an inch thicker. I am sure there are some others out there. Apple haven’t brought anything new to the world, perhaps just sensational marketing.

Macbook Air will probably fly off the shelves, which I have no beef with, however I have beef with people thinking it’s the best thing since sliced bread! Trust me people, nothing to see here, move along.

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Rami Taibah the founder of The Linuxologist and a self proclaimed geek and Linux aficionado. This fall, he will be pursuing an MIMS degree at UC Berkeley, California. You can follow him on Twitter @rtaibah.

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  • Bob

    But … but … but … Apple r00lz!!!

    So many people are brainwashed into this belief that Apple is always the best. No doubt the fanboys will be here soon to complain about you being biased, a minion of Bill Gates, etc …

  • http://hehe2.net atropos

    Actually a minion of the penguin mind you…but ya you are right :)

  • xx

    the people who think apple stuff is good, have never taken it apart and seen what crap it really is. More expensive throw-away if broken craptronics.

  • Jack

    Wow! Interesting findings, I’m impressed.

    Good job soldier :D

  • http://www.matusiak.eu/numerodix/blog/ numerodix
  • 33t

    Great .. I’m gonna dump everything in the world and go buy the so called thinnest laptop in the world !! ..

    come on .. don’t assume the driver seat while you’re sitting in the back !!

  • Hans

    The MacBook Air is still by far a higher quality product. Apple do have a bad reputation for claiming to be the first for things, which a few begrudged nerds decide to spend their time disproving, but at the end of the day, can you really argue against the fact that the MacBook Air is far superior in quality than any of the alternatives? I can’t

  • http://hehe2.net Rami Taibah

    @Hans: I would argue that the Mac Book Air fails in the department of value for money. For such an high ticket laptop, one would suspect having a DVD drive, a replaceable battery, FireWire, Ethernet, multiple USB ports, audio input, and optical audio output…

    So yes I can argue that :)

    And thanks for stopping by!

  • http://www.freelaptopoffers.us/ Drew J

    i hear macbook air is the thinnest laptop these days

  • http://www.freelaptopoffers.us/ Drew J

    i hear macbook air is the thinnest laptop these days

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_INUJMBKZK64XLES6AGC5XFTW4E Sonic

    Wait, you gave 3 counter examples that didn’t propperly counter it. If I wasn’t curious to see if you would actually show me a thinner laptop, I would have stopped reading.

    Take the average thickness of the MBA. It’s about .5 inches average. Average of the other is .65 or whatever. So in a way, MBA is not the thinnest at all levels, but it still contends as a very lightweight computer. And it doesn’t come with horrible specs like netbooks do.

    MBA is down to only 1,000 dollars now compared to the 1700 dollar one you showed. In short, this is not the best counter to what Steve claimed, even though you clearly proved it to be wrong. But did you really expect him to look at the thickness of EVERY OTHER MODEL out there?

    Either way, okay article.

  • Anonymous

    I am also don’t like the Apple product because no one single Apple product will sell on value for money price tag. They always get premium price for every product for just stupid things like thinner, etc.

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