Evolution of Laptops (Portable Computers) 1975 - 2020

The evolution of laptops and portable computers This was the first portable computer the IBM 5100 Here it's shown powered on and attached to an external monitor Although weighing 55 pounds, it was much lighter and portable than previous computers The Xerox note-taker was a bit more portable and its keyboard folded out to reveal its screen it employed What was then highly advanced technology including? 256 kilobytes of RAM and a 5 megahertz Intel CPU Launched in April 1981. The Osborne one is recognized as the first laptop computer It was the first commercially successful portable computer costing eighteen hundred dollars weighing 25 pounds and shipping with a large bundle of software Later that year Epson released a tiny battery powered portable computer that traded screen size for convenience It was hailed by Businessweek magazine as the fourth revolution in personal computing And create a few problems Unless it's the new absent HX 20 notebook computer It does what most computers do without the power With a built-in screen and printer you can do real computing and word processing anywhere The grid compass was the first portable computer that resembled our current laptops Because of its high price and specialized application. It was mostly used by the US government NASA used it on the space shuttle during the early 1980s as it was both powerful and lightweight and The Special Forces used them for their ruggedness and use of solid-state memory The trs-80 sold through RadioShack was popular with journalists They could type about 11 pages of text and then transmit it for editing using the built-in modem Radio Shack's revolutionary model 100 computer it's a word processor phone directory and dialer it even communicates with the office computer In 1984 the Commodore SX 64 was the first portable computer to feature a full-color display screen It weighed about 20 pounds and sold for nine hundred and ninety five dollars It shipped with 64 kilobytes of RAM and a one megahertz CPU It did not sell particularly well but became popular with user groups and software developers They could quickly pack and unpack the machine to use for copying software or giving demonstrations The IBM PC convertible was the first laptop to use the three and a half inch floppy disk format Which went on to become the industry standard? Like modern laptops, it featured power management and the ability to run from batteries The SLT 286 was the first battery-powered laptop to support an internal hard disk drive and a vga compatible LCD screen It weighed 14 pounds in 1989 the NEC ultralight was considered to be the first notebook style laptop since it weighed less than five pounds It was priced around five thousand dollars and shipped with an 8 megahertz CPU After the failure of their first laptop Apple reworked the concept and released the power book line in October 1991 They immediately caused a stir in the industry with the dark gray cases and the positioning of the pointing device It will let you run ms-dos software It will let you run Macintosh software It will let you run away In 1992 Olivetti developed and released the first laptop featuring a touchpad The position near the base of the screen was the norm as most applications were text-based and did not require a pointing device That same year Olivetti released a smaller laptop the cuaderno Capable of audio recording while the computer was off an almost instant boot up It shipped with a 16 megahertz CPU one megabyte of RAM and 20 megabytes of hard disk space The concerto was the first convertible laptop It had a detachable keyboard pen and touch screen But the touchscreen only worked with the special pen like today's tablets. Most of the electronics were housed with the screen This laptop was definitely ahead of its time In 2002 the portage 8 was the thinnest laptop to be developed at only three-quarters of an inch of the thickest part It also featured the first 1.8 inch hard drive in a laptop The TC 1100 had a very unique design it was a hybrid laptop which included a touchscreen stylus and tablet mode Unfortunately Windows XP was not a touch friendly OS hampering its success Like the concerto this was another laptop that was ahead of its time Asus released the 701 in October 2007, which was the first netbook on the market It featured a 7-inch screen an Intel Celeron M processor and a 4 gigabyte hard disk The yoga 13 was one of the first modern hybrid laptops taking advantage of Windows 8 touch interface The name yoga is a reference to the unit's design which allows for different configurations The Razer Blade was the first true portable gaming laptop at point nine inches thin and weighing 6.5 pounds the blade Pro was the most portable 17-inch gaming laptop in its class The yoga book hybrid laptop brought even more functionality in 2016 By using a digitizer panel as the keyboard. The user was able to draw write and type on the same panel The trade-off was the lack of haptic feel and feedback when in keyboard mode The 2018 version of the yoga book now uses e ink for the keyboard panel Eing allows for a more natural drawing surface and for custom input entry layouts depending on the application being used And most importantly it allows for reading without wasting any battery or having to carry a second device Asus is currently working on project Precog which consists of a dual monitor laptop similar to the yoga book but without the limitations of e ink Both could be used as monitors by connecting an external keyboard Or both monitors can be used for gaming or for presentations In laptop mode one monitor is used normally while the other is used as the keyboard or control panel

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Keywords: gadget, tech, evolution, history, history of laptops, history of computers, evolution of computers, first laptop, portable computers, history of portable computer, first portable computer, new laptop, future laptop, ibm 5100, osborne 1, grid compass, Commodore, convertible laptop

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Length: 10min 39sec (639 seconds)

Published: Wed Feb 13 2019

Reddit Comments

[u/Whebble_Puddles]

How informative! Sure makes my old laptop seem... less clunky meow after seeing a 50lbs one haha

[u/TOFUelemental]

I’m so proud of Lenovo Yoga it’s the brand I use

[u/GalantisX]

no physical keyboard for a laptop scares me

[u/dctravis]

At least it probably wouldn't burn you back in 1975...