Each month we can find new series of laptops in the market. Retailers and manufacturers are on a constant run of up gradation so as to give the consumers what they looking for. This year in November Dell laptops have taken the lead in the market when the prices dropped. These days, ultra portables are the call of the time. People are looking for laptops which weigh less and are handy to use.

Flooding with numerous laptops, every single company claims to be the leader and the ultimate combatant machine. But the fact only few of them are handy, user friendly apart from weighing less. Having a built in optical drive is yet another features which are sorted by the consumers.

In today's progressive technological world, one may think of numerous featherweight laptops yet there are only few of them. These may not be the best of the lot but for people who occasionally write mails or surf net, these are definitely the best companion. These run ultra low voltage processor, use smaller keyboards and can manage 4,200 rpm hard drive.

Sony VAIO, Panasonic and Fujitsu are few of players standing on the same base. Equipped with inbuilt optical drive and DVD burner all these models weigh less than 3 pounds. Loaded with profound battery life these ergonomically designed notebooks are abruptly catching up the market. Amidst competition these brands are on the run to be in the forefront.

In this quarter Dell and Sony had caught up the market in a big way. Many companies have also come up with newer versions of their laptops. Amidst all this the bigger question would be which company would take the giant lead in the coming New Years.