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The first portable computer
The first portable computer was created in April 1981 by a company called Osborne, led by a journalist turned entrepreneur named Adam Osborne. -
The first screen invented
This $1795 dollar state-of the art portable computer and it also came with an amazing 4 MHz processor; 64kb of ram; and not one, but two 92k -
Then first remotely portable Computer
The Tandy Radio Shack Model 100 was one of the first portable computers that was remotely affordable. At the time it cost $599, and came with a 2.4MHz. -
The First Mac Portable
It had a 640x480 black and white display, and a 16 MHz processor at a time when most portable computers were running at 10-12 MHz. It also had an amazing ten hour battery lifetime. the Macintosh Portable weighed about 17 pounds, making it considerably heavier than most people liked to carry. Unfortunately, the $6500 price tag also made it far more expensive than its lighter competition. -
First Netbook look alike
The Poquet PC weighed 1.2 pounds and had a 7Mhz.It ran off two AA batteries for weeks or months because of advanced power management features such as shutting off the CPU when it wasn't in use. -
Macintosh Powerbook
The PowerBook 500 had a Motorola 68LC040 CPU that could be upgraded to a PowerPC procesor. It has up to 500mb of hard drive storage, a 1.44mb floppy drive, and up to 40mb of RAM. it weighs PowerBook 500 weighed 7.3 pounds. -
IBM thinkpad
The battery life was about 3.5 hours.Also included in this fascinating design was a fingerprint reader to keep this portable computer completely secure. -
The first Tablet
Add to this the 1.5 GHz processor, 512mb of RAM, and a 40gb hard drive, all packaged in a tiny tablet that weighed only 3.5 pounds.
