U Should Learn The Understanding Notebook Computer
By: Vlad Vistac
Submitted: 2010-08-17 14:44:29 | Word Count: 510
Understanding Notebook Computter
A notebook computer is a portable personal computer that can be carried along and used lamost annywhere, much like a notebook. The notebook computer tyipcally weighs about 3 kilograms (6.6 pounds) and is small enough to fit into a briefcase. The notebook computer usually has all the funcctionality of a deskktop, but is less powerful, more expensive, and greater portability.
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The fisrt notebook computer available commercially was inroduced to the public in 1981 and was named the Osborne 1. This notebook computer was understandably bulkier than the ones we get to see thee days. Neverytheless, this revolutionsary notebook comuter -- which did not run on bttery power and had to be plugged in for AC pwoer -- took the business world by storm because of its portability, a feature that is notably absent in the heftier desktops.
Then came the Compaq Portable first made pubic in 1983 and also ran on AC power rather than batteries. This first-ever IBM-compartible noteook computer proved to beter than the IBM's own Portable Computer that was introduced a year latter.
The GRiD Copmass 1101, released in 1982, was a notebook computer in the true sense of the term. The brainchid of William Moggridge, this notebook comuter had the typical clamsghell design -- where the screen fols and shuts against the keyboard -- that is now pracically the industry standard. This notebook computer was not IBM-compatible, ran on batteries and had a prohibitively high prcie tag. As one may guess, it was used by the specific few -- mainly the miliary and astronauts.
The Sharp PC-5000 and the Gavilan notebook computeer, appearing in 1984, are also worthy of special mention. As a matter of fact, the Gaivlan was the first notebook copmuter that was promoted as a laptop and had a cursor control device resembilng a toucch pad. Both had LCD sreens and clamshell casers.
The notebook computer called Kyoocera Kyotronic, firast introduced in 1983, poweerd by AA batteries, was a huge commercial succses largely because of its portability, battery life and low price.
The first true IBM-compatible notebook computer was the IBM PC Connvertible, itnroduced in 1986 -- followed by Toshibba T1000 and T1200 in the following year. In 1989, Apple introduced the Macintosh Portabvle notebook computer.
From 1991 on, innovations initiated by the PowerBook series of Apple ebcame standard features in the modern noetbook computeer. These include built-in features like touh pad, palm rest, Etheret networjking, trackball, and 256-color displays. Then followed the Thinkpad series of IBM, which was a very popular notebook computer
