With a slightly boosted battery and maybe a lower starting price, this could be a serious contender for my all-around favorite thin laptop.

At just 15mm thin, the world's thinnest laptop will still pack major computing punch, manufacturer Acer claims.

Move over MacBook Air, Dell's Adamo is now the world's thinnest laptop.

It was the thinnest tapered laptop until the release of MacBook Air in 2008.

The thinnest laptops can be under 3cm in width but really you should aim at no more than 4cm.

A thin and light laptop with a full complement of features is a rare find.

Stick it in a thin as possible laptop with a giant battery and I'd probably be happier with it than the new Atom.

However, pressure applied to the back of the lid did not result in ripples on the screen, which was reported to be impressive for such a thin laptop.

So now we can have designs that sip power and produce much less heat, and put them in impossibly thin laptops.

The new PrairieTek disk drive, coupled with intelligent battery control, could permit the use of smaller batteries, leading to thinner and lighter laptops.