Lenovo Lecoo Air 16 With 120Hz OLED Weighs A Mere 1Kg In Challenge To MacBook Air

Lenovo has quietly introduced a new 16-inch laptop that it claims is the world's first of its kind to weigh under a single kilogram (or right around 2.2 pounds). To Lenovo's boast, the laptop is not in an unprecedented weight class as far as notebooks go, though as it applies to the 16-inch form factor, there are not a lot of options that dip below 1kg.

As far as we know, the only other 16-inch laptop to weigh less than a kilogram is Acer's Swift Air 16, which is not available -- it's due out next month starting at 999 Euros (around $1,164 in U.S. currency) The Lecoo Air 16, meanwhile, is listed for sale at JD.com for a rather affordable 4,999 Chinese Yuan. That works out to around $700 in U.S. currency.

Not bad considering the Lecoo Air packs an ...