HISTORY WALKS OF THE LAPTOP

1984: Compaq Portable weighing at 28 lbs
Coming in at a monstrous 28 lbs, the Compaq Portable acquires an A+ for ground-breaking, but gets an F- for the heaviness category. The computer was also fairly substantial and when folded was about the identical size as a transportable sewing contraption. Compaq was talented to sell a testimony setting 53,000 of these iron giants at the precipitous price of US$3,590. When the features of the transportable are compared to the customary modern day notebook, it’s like comparing a paper airplane to a surreptitiousness bomber. The system swanked a minute 128 kilobytes of memory and two 5.25" floppy disk drives. The exclusive CGA video card enabled the 9x14 pixel disposition cells to engender phrasing on the built-in 9" green display monitor. The Compaq Portable’s strapping suits embrace spreadsheet capabilities.

1990: Macintosh Portable (15.8 Lbs)
The Macintosh transportable was apples 1st endeavor at generating a portable PC with Macintosh desktop possibilities. The Mac Portable pounded 15.8 pounds, due to the bulky lead-acid batteries utilized to power the unit and its captures are nothing extravagant either. The transportable had a 16 MHz CPU and 1 Mb of Ram, which was stretchy up to 9 Mb. The Apple “luggable” was reasonably costly with a price of $6,500; on the other hand the luxury of a full voyage keyboard, and battery life was up to 12 hours didn’t give credence to ridiculous cost.