It seems that a certain proportion of the laptop-buying public won’t rest until they have the lightest notebook on the market, and it is with some delight, no doubt, that our pals over at infopockets.com have discovered the 1.72 pound Toshiba Portege R500-S5007V.

First things first – and we know it’s the question everyone will be asking, and the

answer is an unequivocal yes! “Apple’s MacBook air clocks in at 3 pounds and Lenovo’s Thinkpad X300 is still 1.21 pounds heavier than the Portege at 2.93 pounds”. So there you have it – and we’re saying nothing.

Of course, such demure laptoppery (I’m inventing words here) comes at a price,

and “if consumers opt for the “world’s thinnest widescreen,” at.77 inches, the notebook comes with an integrated DVD-SuperMulti drive. However, if you want the ‘world’s lightest widescreen’ you will have to live without the optical disk drive.”

To read more, vamoose with immediate effect to infopackets.com.