The IBM 5100 from 1975 is considered the first portable computer and helped establish common laptop elements like a screen, keyboard, and single unit structure. In the 1990s, Apple's PowerBook 100 line included innovations like a 9-inch screen and trackball that foreshadowed future laptop features. Over subsequent decades, laptops became lighter, faster, and more advanced due to contributions from companies like Apple, Dell, Lenovo, and others. Today's top laptop models continue pushing the boundaries of portable computing.
The IBM 5100 from 1975 is considered the first portable computer and helped establish common laptop elements like a screen, keyboard, and single unit structure. In the 1990s, Apple's PowerBook 100 line included innovations like a 9-inch screen and trackball that foreshadowed future laptop features. Over subsequent decades, laptops became lighter, faster, and more advanced due to contributions from companies like Apple, Dell, Lenovo, and others. Today's top laptop models continue pushing the boundaries of portable computing.
The IBM 5100 from 1975 is considered the first portable computer and helped establish common laptop elements like a screen, keyboard, and single unit structure. In the 1990s, Apple's PowerBook 100 line included innovations like a 9-inch screen and trackball that foreshadowed future laptop features. Over subsequent decades, laptops became lighter, faster, and more advanced due to contributions from companies like Apple, Dell, Lenovo, and others. Today's top laptop models continue pushing the boundaries of portable computing.
The IBM 5100 from 1975 is considered the first portable computer and helped establish common laptop elements like a screen, keyboard, and single unit structure. In the 1990s, Apple's PowerBook 100 line included innovations like a 9-inch screen and trackball that foreshadowed future laptop features. Over subsequent decades, laptops became lighter, faster, and more advanced due to contributions from companies like Apple, Dell, Lenovo, and others. Today's top laptop models continue pushing the boundaries of portable computing.
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The Evolution of the Laptop
By Fridaus (http://socialbarrel.com)
Laptops are portable computers being around for
quite long. It’s hard to determine which one was the very first laptop in the world. There were many proposed ideas and concepts on portable computing devices, as known as laptops, but all of them were not technically feasible. Here I have presented the laptop evolution timeline briefly.
According to Wikipedia, it is said that IBM
developed the first portable computer IBM 5100 which was released in September 1975. Its introductory price ranged from $8,975 (BASIC with 16 kiB) to $19,975 (BASIC+APL with 64 kiB). As In 1990s, Apple released its PowerBook 100 range we see in the modern laptops, there are some that included quite a few touches that had flavors of common elements of a laptop, such as screen, the future. It featured a 9” (640 x 400p) screen, 16 keyboard, and a single structure. The IBM 5100 also MHZ Motorola processor, 2 MB RAM, 256 KB had those components like display, keyboard and ROM, 20-40 MB storage, trackball, mouse buttons, number pad. and keyboard. The machine was discontinued in 1992.
Along with others, the above devices played the most
crucial role to set the standard theme of a laptop which is now being used by major manufacturers like Apple, HP, Dell, Lenovo, Asus, etc.
In the meantime, we have seen some popular laptop
models like Apple PowerBook G4 series, Sony VAIO line, Dell Alienware range, Apple MackBook and so on. Mini laptops, called ‘Netbooks’ were also popular for a while. But when tablets arrived, netbook sales went down.
The IBM 5100 Portable Computer featured a 5”
diagonal CRT screen which could display maximum 64 character and 16 lines. This 24KG machine had a 1.9MHz processor, 16–64 KB RAM and 32–64 KB ROM. However, it was discontinued in 1978.
Then we can remember Dulmont Magnum, another
early laptop developed by Dulmison Pty Limited in 1980s. The machine was also known as Kookaburra. Its display could show 8-25 lines or 80 characters. Today we are living in the age of lighter, faster and There was an Intel processor clocked at 8MHz. Other prettier laptops. Manufacturers are now implementing configurations included 96KB-384KB RAM and more advanced technologies into new laptops. Some 128KB-384KB ROM. It had also room for dual of the best laptop lines of this year are Apple external 5.25” floppy disks or 10 MB external hard MacBook Pro, Lenovo Y50, Toshiba Satellite, drive. Samsung Chromebook, HP EliteBook, Asus ZenBook, etc. The Dulmont Magnum was not a huge success, but it sent a signal to big companies for developing better portable computers. It was discontinued in 1986.