Lenovo's new laptop makes the MacBook Air feel big

When I first picked up Lenovo’s new LaVie Z notebook I thought it was a joke. It looks and feels like a dummy laptop you’d find in a store, but it’s actually a real working insanely light laptop. At just 1.72 pounds you would expect low specifications, a flimsy build, and poor battery life, but Lenovo surprises at every opportunity. Packed inside its 16.9mm thin body is Intel’s 5th generation Core i5 processor, an unusual choice over the fanless Core M processors that are often seleced for such thin and light machines.

That gives you the power of a real laptop alongside a 13.3-inch display that can be configured up to 2560 x 1440 resolution. There’s no touchscreen on the basic laptop model (HZ550), but Lenovo also has a convertible Z...

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