Top 12 Best Ultraportables 1.3kg or Less: ultra light, super slim & powerful 13 to 14-inch laptops

Samuel J Tan Laptops, Personal Technology, Technology 0

Want an ultraportable laptop that is also super light? We are not talking about tablets or convertible hybrids but real clamshells with a decent size 13 or 14-inch screen that you can actually work on. Here, we explore 12 of the best ultraportables starting from 883grams up to 1.3kg. These ultra light and super slim laptops are quick and responsive too with plenty of power to boot.

More and more ultra portables are joining the mainstream market. These ‘feather’ light and super slim devices come with sufficient power, memory and storage to pull their weight, or hardly thereof, to compete against some of the best desktop and full size laptops out there.

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Top 12 Best Ultraportable that Weighs 1.3kg or Less

While in the past, going ultra portable means sacrificing on performance, choosing instead less powerful but efficient mobile processors and more efficient components that are not necessarily the fastest, the narrative is rather the opposite now. This is thanks to advancements in manufacturing process, company’s ability to pack more cores into the processor die, integrated GPU and memory with silicon-on-chip and faster and more efficient components in general. We are finally reaping the benefits of these advancements. Before we dive right in, here are the two most common processors in use among our ultraportables:

Intel Core i7-1165G7 Processor (Specs on Intel) 4C/8T 4.7GHz Turbo, 2.8GHz TDP-up, 1.2GHz TDP-down
Intel Core i5-1135G7 Processor (Specs on Intel) 4C/8T 4.2GHz Turbo, 2.4GHz TDP-up, 900Hz TDP-down

1. LG Gram 14Z90P 14-inch 1kg 16.8mm

Intel® Core™ i7-1165G7 Processor
RAM: 8 GB / Storage: 512 GB SSD
14-inch Full HD screen WUXGA 1920 x 1200p
Up to 25.5 hours of battery life
16.8 x 313.4 x 215.2 mm (H x W x D), 1kg

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2. Acer Swift 5 SF514-55T 14-inch 1.04kg 15.9mm

Intel® Core™ i7-1165G7 Processor
RAM: 8 GB / Storage: 512 GB SSD
14-inch Full HD 1920 x 1080p touchscreen
Up to 15 hours battery life
15.9 x 318.9 x 206.9 mm (H x W x D), 1.04kg

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3. Dell XPS 13 9305 13.3-inch 1.16kg 15.8mm

Intel® Core™ i7-1165G7 Processor
RAM: 8 GB / Storage: 512 GB SSD
13.3-inch Full HD screen 1920 x 1080p
Up to 11.5 hours of battery life
15.8 x 302 x 199 mm (H x W x D), 1.16kg

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4. ASUS ZenBook UX425 14-inch 1.19kg 13.9mm

Intel® Core™ i5-1135G7 Processor
Memory: 8 GB RAM / 32 GB Intel® Optane™
Storage: 512 GB SSD
14-inch Full HD screen 1920 x 1080p
Up to 18 hours battery life
13.9 x 304 x 203 mm (H x W x D), 1.19kg

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5. ASUS ZenBook 13 UX325 13.3-inch 1.19kg 13.9mm – SLIMMEST

Intel® Core™ i7-1165G7 Processor
Memory: 8 GB RAM / 32 GB Intel® Optane™
Storage: 512 GB SSD
13.3-inch Full HD screen 1920 x 1080
Up to 18 hours battery life
13.9 x 304 x 203 mm (H x W x D), 1.19kg

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6. ASUS ZenBook S UX393 13.9-inch 1.25kg 14.9mm

Intel® Core™ i7-1165G7 Processor
RAM: 16 GB / Storage: 1 TB SSD
13.9-inch Quad HD 3300 x 2200 pixel Touchscreen
224 x 306 x 149 mm (H x W x D), 1.25kg

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7. Microsoft Surface Laptop 4 13.5-inch 1.26kg 14.5mm

Intel® Core™ i7-1185G7 Processor
RAM: 16 GB / Storage: 512 GB SSD
Graphics: Intel® Iris® Xe
13.5-inch Quad HD touchscreen 2256 x 1504p
Up to 19 hours of battery life
308 x 223 x 14.5 mm (H x W x D), 1.26kg

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8. Dell XPS 13 9310 13.4-inch 1.27kg 14.8mm

Intel® Core™ i7-1185G7 Processor
RAM: 16 GB / Storage: 1 TB SSD
4K Ultra HD touchscreen
Up to 8 hours battery life
14.8 x 295.7 x 198.7 mm (H x W x D), 1.27kg

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9. Apple MacBook Air 13.3-inch 1.29kg 16.1mm

Apple M1 chip
RAM: 8 GB / Storage: 256 GB SSD
13.3-inch Quad HD 2560 x 1600 pixel Retina display
Battery life: Up to 18 hours
16.1 x 304.1 x 212.4 mm (H x W x D), 1.29kg

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10. HP ENVY 13 13.3-inch 1.3kg 16.9mm

Intel® Core™ i7-1165G7 Processor
RAM: 16 GB / Storage: 1 TB SSD
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce MX450 2 GB
Full HD touchscreen 1920 x 1080p
Up to 10 hours 15 minutes battery life
16.9 x 194.6 x 306.5 mm (H x W x D), 1.3kg

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BONUS: Samsung Galaxy Pros

Two more entries from Samsung from the Galaxy Book Pro series. With 13.3-inch AMOLED display, they are available as laptop (Pro) or convertible with S Pen stylus (Pro 360). For both devices, you get a choice of processors too between Intel Core i7-1165G7 or Intel Core i5-1135G7. We favour the Core i5 version purely on cost. If you want extra performance, the Core i7 is one to go for. In Cinebench 20 Multi-core benchmark, the Core i5 is only 5.6% slower. But if it is light gaming you are after, the Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 (96EU) has an edge. The embedded Intel Iris Xe Graphic G7 (80EU) is 13.5% slower in 3DMark: Fire Strike score. Data based on laptopmedia.com.