Hey guys Welcome to the techy hydra, I'm Abhishek, and today I will talk about The evolution of laptops and portable computers.
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IBM 5100
This was the first portable computer the IBM 5100. Here it's shown powered on and attached to an external monitor. Although weighing 55 pounds, it was much lighter and portable than previous computers
Xerox note-taker
The Xerox note-taker was a bit more portable and its keyboard folded out to reveal the screen is employed. What was then highly advanced technology including?
256 kilobytes of RAM and a 5 megahertz Intel CPU, Launched in April 1981.
The Osborne
The Osborne one is recognized as the first laptop computer. It was the first commercially successful portable computer costing eighteen hundred dollars weighing 25 pounds and shipping with a large bundle of software
Epson
Later that year Epson released a tiny battery-powered portable computer that traded screen size for convenience.
It was hailed by Businessweek magazine as the fourth revolution in personal computing. And create a few problems.
HX 20
Unless it's the new absent HX 20 notebook computer. It does what most computers do without power. With a built-in screen and printer, you can do real computing and word processing anywhere
The grid compass was the first portable computer that resembled our current laptops.
Because of its high price and specialized application. It was mostly used by the US government.
NASA used it on the space shuttle during the early 1980s as it was both powerful and lightweight and
The Special Forces used them for their ruggedness and use of solid-state memory.
TRS-80
The TRS-80 sold through RadioShack was popular with journalists.
They could type about 11 pages of text and then transmit it for editing using the built-in modem. Radio Shack's revolutionary model. 100 computer it's a word processor phone directory and dialer it even communicates with the office computer.
Commodore SX 64
In 1984 the Commodore SX 64 was the first portable computer to feature a full-color display screen. It weighed about 20 pounds and sold for nine hundred and ninety-five dollars. It shipped with 64 kilobytes of RAM and a one megahertz CPU. It did not sell particularly well but became popular with user groups and software developers. They could quickly pack and unpack the machine to use for copying software or giving demonstrations.
IBM PC
The IBM PC convertible was the first laptop to use the three and a half-inch floppy disk format.
Which went on to become the industry standard?
Like modern laptops, it featured power management and the ability to run from batteries.
SLT 286
The SLT 286 was the first battery-powered laptop to support an internal hard disk drive and a VGA compatible LCD screen.
It weighed 14 pounds in 1989 the NEC ultralight was considered to be the first notebook-style laptop since it weighed less than five pounds. It was priced around five thousand dollars and shipped with an 8 megahertz CPU.
After the failure of their first laptop, Apple reworked the concept and released the power book line in October 1991.
They immediately caused a stir in the industry with the dark gray cases and the positioning of the pointing device. It will let you run ms-dos software. It will let you run Macintosh software. It will let you run away.
Olivetti
In 1992 Olivetti developed and released the first laptop featuring a touchpad.
The position near the base of the screen was the norm as most applications were text-based and did not require a pointing device.
That same year Olivetti released a smaller laptop the cuaderno. Capable of audio recording while the computer was off an almost instant boot up. It shipped with a 16 megahertz CPU one megabyte of RAM and 20 megabytes of hard disk space.
The concerto
The concerto was the first convertible laptop. It had a detachable keyboard pen and touch screen.
But the touchscreen-only worked with the special pen-like today's tablets. Most of the electronics were housed with the screen. This laptop was definitely ahead of its time.
In 2002 the portage 8 was the thinnest laptop to be developed at only three-quarters of an inch of the thickest part.
It also featured the first 1.8 inches hard drive on a laptop.
TC 1100
The TC 1100 had a very unique design it was a hybrid laptop that included a touchscreen stylus and tablet mode.
Unfortunately, Windows XP was not a touch-friendly OS hampering its success.
Like the concerto, this was another laptop that was ahead of its time.
Asus 701
Asus released the 701 in October 2007, which was the first netbook on the market. It featured a 7-inch screen an Intel Celeron M processor and a 4-gigabyte hard disk.
Yoga 13
Yoga 13 was one of the first modern hybrid laptops taking advantage of the Windows 8 touch interface.
The name yoga is a reference to the unit's design which allows for different configurations.
Razer Blade
The Razer Blade was the first true portable gaming laptop at point nine inches thin and weighing 6.5 pounds the blade Pro was the most portable 17-inch gaming laptop in its class.
The yoga book
The yoga book hybrid laptop brought even more functionality in 2016. By using a digitizer panel as the keyboard. The user was able to draw write and type on the same panel.
The trade-off was the lack of haptic feel and feedback when in keyboard mode. The 2018 version of the yoga book now uses e ink for the keyboard panel.
Asus is currently working on project Precog which consists of a dual monitor laptop similar to the yoga book but without the limitations of e ink.
Both could be used as monitors by connecting an external keyboard. Or both monitors can be used for gaming or for presentations.
In laptop mode, one monitor is used normally while the other is used as the keyboard or control panel.
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