Another item high up on the list of heavy items that people often carry in their bags is the venerable laptop. In general, companies make lighter and thinner laptops than they did years ago, but there are still examples of heavier laptops. For example, the Asus ROG Strix G15 has a rated weight of 5.07 pounds. Laptop weight is definitely worth considering if you intend to carry it around all the time. After all, you’ll put other things in the bag, too, and two pounds is a much lower starting weight than five.

Fortunately, there are some great lightweight laptops, no matter which operating system you choose to go with. You can get the excellent Acer Chromebook Plus 515, which works great and weighs in at 3.5 pounds, which is less than most gaming laptops. Windows fans can check out the Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Nano Gen 3, a workhorse laptop with a carbon fiber lid and magnesium backside that brings the weight down to 2.1 pounds. The Asus ZenBook 14 OLED not only takes up less space but also has a gorgeous 4K OLED screen and weighs a hair over three pounds. Of course, the 2022 MacBook Air weighs under three pounds as well.

It doesn’t seem like much, but when you carry a laptop bag around all day, every day, those few pounds really start to add up at the end of a long day. Plus, with thin and light laptops being all the rage, OEMs build plenty of them and make sure that they have the specs to do what you need them to.