Samsung has just unveiled its latest slim laptop that is lighter than Macbook Air. The laptop is really lighter than the (MacBook) Air by 3oz. X360 is only 0.66-inch thick, we’ll take that as a dig at the fact that the 13.3in Samsung X360 is in fact a shade lighter than the MacBook Air at 1.27g. Inside there’s a 45nm Core 2 Duo mobile processor, mated to a 13.3-inch 1280 x 800 pixel LED-backlit screen, there’s a 128G-byte SSD (solid-state drive). SSDs are based on flash memory and should allow PCs to start and shutdown faster than laptops with hard-disk drives, WiFi, Bluetooth 2.0, 7-in-1 card reader and a 1.3 Megapixel webcam, and the machine has no internal DVD drive: instead it comes with an external one.
Course, the bit you all want to know is how thick it is. Well, it’s 16.7mm at its thinnest, rising to a lardy 30.9mm at its chunkiest point. That’s frankly not a patch on the Air, which goes from 4mm to 19.4mm. No manilla envelope unveilings for you, Samsung.

Battery life on the X360 is between 6 hours and 10 hours depending on usage, according to Samsung.
X360 offers three USB ports, HDMI, PCI ExpressCard 3/4, Ethernet LAN and VGA ports. It’ll be out in October running Vista, with prices starting at €1,400 and going up to €2000.