Libertarians, of course, always worry about the thick end of any wedge.

ECONOMIST: The law

Despite our drawn shades and closed curtains, it lies in thick layers on our end tables and windowsills.

NEWYORKER: The Invasion from Outer Space

He cracked jokes in four or five languages yet retained his thick German accent to the end.

ECONOMIST: Handel's anniversary

She wore dark glasses and tapped her way down the sidewalk with her cane, a thick white bulb on the end of it.

NEWYORKER: Brother on Sunday

At just 8.8mm thick, the 257 x 176mm tablet is thinner than high-end rivals like the iPad and Nexus 10 -- and at 580 grams, it weighs less, too.

ENGADGET: Huawei MediaPad 10 review: test-driving the company's first 10-inch tablet

The Z160 is the company's more high-end offering, weighing 1.23kg and measuring in at 19.4mm thick (versus the H160's 1.05kg and 15.9mm thickness) and also features a third-generation Intel Core i5, whereas its sibling is Atom-powered.

ENGADGET: LG Tab-Book Ultra Z160 and Tab-Book H160 hands-on Hands-on

We swung by the company's trailer to get some hands-on with the T430u -- the first such machine that we've seen packing discrete graphics from NVIDIA. At only 21mm thick and under four pounds, the first ThinkPad Ultrabook is certainly svelte and falls on the more portable end of the spectrum for 14-inch PCs.

ENGADGET: Lenovo's ThinkPad T430u Ultrabook hands-on Hands-on