A Visual Walk Through The History of Laptop Computers

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The laptop, then notebook, computer has been transformed from a 20+ pound behemoth in the 1980s to svelte 3 pound sub-compacts today, according to Steve Hamm at BusinessWeek in this recent, interesting walk through the timeline.

Weive gone from this:


Osborne 1, 1981, $1795

To this, in just about 25 years.


MacBook Air, 2008, $1799

One has to wonder what the next twenty-five years will be like.

John Martellaro

John Martellaro

John Martellaro was born at an early age and began writing about computers soon after that. He is a former U.S. Air Force officer and has worked for NASA, White Sands Missile Range, Lockheed Martin Astronautics, the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Apple. At Apple he worked as a Senior Marketing Manager, a Federal Account Executive and a High Performance Computing manager. His interests include skiing, chess, science fiction and astronomy. You can follow John on Twitter at twitter.com/jmartellaro.

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