AT FIFTEEN millimetres at its thickest point, Acer has unveiled the world’s thinnest windows-powered laptop at the Consumer electronics show in Las Vegas. Weighing just under 1.35 kg with a 34 cm inch, Ultrabook will be available in the second quarter of the year.

Though Apple powered MacBook Air laptops are the most sleek in the world but according to analyst Tim Bajarin of Creatice strategies, "the real battle is not with Apple, it is with all the other vendors coming out with Windows ultrabooks." Tim, as quoted by Zee News believes that the Aspire S5 looks like the thinnest and lightest and it sets the bar for the rest of the ultrabook vendors. Upon holding a MacBook Air in hand, one gets a feeling that he is holding a thin scale with curvy edges. Now with Acer also launching the same kind of laptop, windows’ users will also boast of the lightest notepads.

With the introduction of LCDs and LEDs, sleek and thin gadgets have started to replace the big-sized gadgets that would occupy most of the space in our living rooms. Right from laptops to TVs and cameras, every gadget is decreasing in size but at the same time increasing in its efficiency. Now, while we have 29 inches LCD TV fixed to our walls, we shall soon have the Acer laptops that can fit in one corner of our backpack.

Though everyone would like to free himself of the extra burden of the heavy laptops from their shoulders, thin and sleek gadgets also run the risk of being little sensitive to pressures. So developers need to take extra caution to make sure that they are sturdy enough to withstand physical pressures. Though Apple has shown the way to the market, people should realise that they don’t just copy but try to make it look better.