Sony Vaio VGN-SZ791N

Travelers and businessmen usually need laptop with good performance and longer battery life. Thanks to Sony, now there is a better choice than MacBook Air and other ultraportable laptops. Sony VAIO VGN-SZ791N is the perfect combination of an ultraportable laptop with good performance, nice specification, and long battery life.

With 4GB RAM memory, Intel Core 2 Duo T9300 (2.5 GHz), and nVidia GeForce 8400M GS, Sony VAIO VGN-SZ791N is probably the first ultraportable laptop that can play almost all heavy PC games. Of course you need a better graphics card to play fantastic games such as Crysis but this is the best ultraportable laptop so far. Surprisingly, VGN-SZ791N has better battery life than most VAIO laptops. With more than 5 hours battery life, VGN-SZ791N surpasses its competitors such as MacBook Air.

VGN-SZ791N also surprises the world with the integrated Sprint EV-DO Rev A cellular modem. There are not many ultraportable laptops which have broadband connectivity but Sony apparently knows what travelers need. Yep, a broadband internet access. However, VGN-SZ791N also has several weak points. For example, this laptop only has two USB ports. The price tag ($2,449-$2,800) is also another thing that you need to reconsider.

Apple Mac Book Air

An extremely-thin laptop with comfortable black keyboard and wireless connectivity. Yes, this is an amazing and revolutionary laptop. Apple MacBook Air is the new Apple invention that has amazed most people in this world. Apple calls it the thinnest laptop on the planet.

With thickness up to 0.16" , MacBook Air breaks another "laptop limit". If you think a laptop with 1" thickness is a superb invention, you will be astonished when you see this laptop with your own eyes. The LED backlit keyboard is another plus point for Apple MacBook Air. Nonetheless, skeptic people criticized this laptop a lot. They think MacBook Air's battery won't last as long as the other mobile laptops. The specification is also not impressive at all although you can get it for around $1,700.

Whatever people say about it, Apple MacBook Air is rated as one of the most impressive things in January 2008. If you are searching for a new laptop and you are a kind of "design worshipper", probably you will be tempted to buy MacBook Air. Some people even made a joke about Al Gore and this laptop. They said Al Gore (who travels a lot to different countries recently) will buy Apple MacBook Air to replace his old laptop.