Toshiba is letting everyone else fight over who’s the smallest or thinnest, instead grabbing the slightly qualified world’s lightest full scale laptop crown for its own with the Portege R600.

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The latest addition to Toshiba’s Portege laptop range has just popped up on the firm’s Canadian website. The R600 is a 12.1-inch, sub-1kg notebook with a claimed battery life of nine hours.

It runs on a 1.4GHz Core 2 Duo processor and 2GB of memory (upgradeable to 5GB), and can be kitted out with either 128GB of solid state storage or a standard 160GB hard drive. There’s also a DVD burner built-in.

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