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at one time a full-fledged computer that

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could fit into a single room was viewed

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as a pipe dream but a similar concept to

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the Contemporary laptop was envisioned all the way back in

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1968 by computer scientist Alan Kay when

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he conceived of the din book a gadget

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that bore a passing resemblance to a modern e-reader but was perhaps

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surprisingly intended as an educational tool for kids now the D book was never

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manufactured but portable Computing didn't take long to become a reality

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arguably the first ever portable computer for the general public the IBM

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5100 hit the market in

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1975 and yes this is an actual photo of

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the 5100 it essentially looked like an

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entire old school desktop computer except with a tiny 5-in display capable

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of displaying a whopping 1,24 characters wow at 53 lb or 24 kg it

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wasn't exactly uh backpack friendly though to its credit it did come with a

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carrying case but it was hailed as an

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engineering Marvel at the time because packing all those components into one

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somewhat portable box hadn't been done before before and it could be yours for

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the low low price of only

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$9,000 equivalent to about

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$41,000 today subsequent Portables the term

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laptop would be coined later continued the tiny CRT in a heavy case Trend at

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its launch in 1981 the Osborne one

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weighed 242 lb and cost a much more

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reasonable $1,800 so then it wasn't until

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1983 that we saw the first laptop that

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somewhat resembled what we're used to today the

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$88,000 grid Compass which featured a

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flat electroluminescent display instead

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of a CRT helping to reduce the weight to

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less than 11 lbs at the time it's 320x

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240 pixel display was praised for being

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nice and sharp and it even came with 384 kiloby of

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bubble memory an early form of solid state storage fun fact it's rumored that

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the grid Compass served as part of the US president's nuclear football at some

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point but continent destroying capabilities aside the compass had a

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huge weakness in that it wasn't compatible with the widely used IBM PC

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though it didn't take too long for laptop manufacturers to catch on

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starting in 1985 with the kpro 2000

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which came with a surprisingly handsome aluminum shell followed by the IBM PC

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convertible the next year falling prices

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and at least passible portability meant that laptops quickly became popular

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among business users toward the late 1980s and in 1988 the world was

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introduced to the NEC Ultra light weighing just over 4 lb boasting a

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thickness of only 1.4 in which would

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actually put it in the same ballpark as some Modern machines indeed the ultra

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light is often credited with being the first laptop in the world to be called a

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notebook due to its compact size however the ultra light was still

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criticized for being relatively light on

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features and we didn't see a major shift

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in the lightweight laptop industry until Apple rolled out the original PowerBook

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100 which included there System 7 graphical OS as well as a built-in track

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ball another fun fact while it's nearly impossible to find track balls on

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laptops today The PowerBook 100 was credited with popularizing the concept

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of a built-in pointing device and apple would continue this leadership when they

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introduced the first built-in touchpad on a later PowerBook in

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1994 the next year 1995 saw the release

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of Windows 95 which was a big deal for

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laptop technology Windows 95 was able to

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standardize many elements of laptop design thanks to its ability to talk to

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the laptop's BIOS more directly to

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handle functions like power management obviating the need for the wide variety

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of bioses and drivers that were necessary on old older devices making

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manufacturing simpler and increasing

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interoperability another feature that's now ubiquitous on laptops built-in Wi-Fi

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first appeared in 1999 on the Apple

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iBook which was even more well known for its uh interesting design subsequent

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laptops incrementally added features that we're used to today like HD screens

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webcams solid state drives and even

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desktop grade Graphics processing and

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we've gotten some new form factors along the way such as the briefly popular

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Netbook an underpowered Windows machine with an unusably small keyboard which

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was introduced in 2007 and the huge

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Blitz of two in-one touchscreen devices in 2013 when Microsoft rolled out

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Windows 8 along with that horrendous Metro modern whatever you want to call

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it start screen thing and thanks to

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smaller more efficient processors laptops have generally become thinner

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and lighter some are even in the neighborhood of 2 lb Which is less than

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125 of the weight of the original IBM

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5100 maybe one day your laptop won't be

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much thicker than a piece of paper but then you'll run the risk of crumpling it

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