Asus’ Asuspro B9 | Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge
Asus and Acer love to duke it out each year over thin and light laptops, and this year is no different. Asus has just beaten Acer to the “world’s lightest 14-inch” laptop contest. Acer unveiled its Swift 5 earlier today, which weighs just 2.1 pounds and proudly maintains “the world’s lightest 14-inch notebook.” Just hours later, Asus revealed its AsusPro B9, which weighs in at just 1.9 pounds. You might imagine that this laptop isn’t full of powerful hardware, but Asus has managed to pack in a 10th Gen Intel Core processor (the company hasn’t revealed the exact model yet), up to two 1TB PCIe SSDs, Wi-Fi 6 support, and even an IR camera for Windows Hello.
Like many Asus laptops, it’s a 14-inch display inside the body of a typical 13-inch…