Toshiba Corp. has announced the launch of the world's lightest laptop, the Protege R500-S5007V..Boston (dbTechno) - Toshiba Corp. has announced the launch of the world’s lightest laptop, the Protege R500-S5007V.

Toshiba has taken claim to beating out Apple Inc. as well as Lenovo Group Ltd., who have the MacBook Air and the Thinkpad X300 respectively.

The world’s lightest laptop, according to Toshiba, weighs in at just 2.4 pounds. This compares to the Apple MacBook Air which weighs in at 3 pounds, and the Lenovo Thinkpad X300 at 2.93 pounds.

At its thinnest point, the Toshiba laptop is .077 inches.

The laptop may be light, but it has some power packing a 128GB solid-state drive, a 12.1-inch screen, 1.33-GHz Intel Core 2 Duo U7700 processor, 2MB of cache, and 2GB of RAM.

As of right now, Toshiba has announced the MSRP at $2,999.

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