- Thin – less than 20 mm (0.8 inch) thickness[6]
- Lightweight – less than 1.4 kg (3.1 pounds)[7]
- Long battery life – 5 to 8+ hours[8]
- Mainstream pricing – under $1,000 USD (for base model)[9]
- No optical drive
- Use flash-based SSDs[10]
- Use CULV (17 W TDP) Intel Sandy Bridge mobile processors
- Core i5-2467M (1.6 GHz)
- Core i5-2557M (1.7 GHz)
- Core i7-2637M (1.7 GHz)
- Core i7-2677M (1.8 GHz)
- Use Intel's graphics sub-system HD 3000 (12 EUs)