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First "Laptop"
The MCM/70 was the first portable computer made and put on market. It had an 800Khz processor, between 2 and 8kb of RAM, 32kb of ROM, and a tiny one-line plasma display for output. -
First Square Screened Laptop
The Osborne 1 was the first popular portable computer. Included was a 4 MHz processor; 64kb of ram; and not one, but two 92k. -
First Remotely Portable Computer
The Tandy Radio Shack Model 100 was the first portable computers that was actually affordable to most people. Came with a 2.4MHz processor, 8-32K of RAM and a 40x8 character LCD display. Ran off of 4 AA batteries, and lasted up to sixteen hours on batteries. -
First Mac Portable
The Macintosh Portable wasn't really a very popular portable computer. Had a 640x480 black and white display, and a 16 MHz processor. -
First Netbook Look Alike
The Poquet PC was a very powerful minicomputer. The Poquet PC weighed 1.2 pounds and had a 7Mhz. Ran for weeks or months and ran various programs. -
Macintosh Powerbook
Apple's PowerBook 500 was the first portable computer that had a trackpad. Had a Motorola 68LC040 CPU, 500mb of hard drive storage, a 1.44mb floppy drive, and up to 40mb of RAM. The PowerBook 500 weighed 7.3 pounds. -
First Tablet
The Lenovo X41 introduced the new laptop/tablet conversion feature that made it different to others of its kind. it had a 5 GHz processor, 512mb of RAM, and a 40gb hard drive. -
IBM thinkpad
Included in this design was a fingerprint reader to keep it secure. Had a 266 MHz processor, 32mb of RAM, and a 5gb hard drive with Windows 95 installed. -
Getting Thinner
Come 2008, the MacBook Air is said to be the thinnest laptop to date, which made history. Includes 1.8Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo, an 80gb solid-state hard drive, and 2gb of memory -
Modern Day Laptops
Modern laptops now have longer battery life, touchscreens, Windows 10, and more advanced features that were probably not even thought of in the 1970's-1980's.
