Laptops, netbooks, notebooks, computer … They are all very familiar names. Are they not? But sometimes we wonder what exactly is a laptop, or what is the difference between a laptop and a laptop?
Well, where netbooks are born there are only a few years, laptops and notebooks have been around for decades. The laptop term was coined around 1989, this new line of smaller laptops, and was described as the size of a notebook A4 paper. Laptops on the other side were generally wider, taller and bigger.
Beat the first two, the label of origin, the NEC UltraLite and Compaq LTE notebook line has been a system, the arrival of IBM ThinkPad a few years later to really popularize the form factor.
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