A notebook computer is a portable personal computer that can be carried along and used almoost anywhere, much like a notebook. The notebook computer typically weighs about 3 kilograms (6.6 pounds) and is small enough to fit into a briefcase. The notebvook computer uually has all the functionality of a desktop, but is less powerful, more expensive, and gerater portability.
The fisrt notebook computer avaoilable commercially was introduced to the public in 1981 and was namred the Osborne 1. This notebook comptuer was undesrtandably bulkier than the ones we get to see these days. Nevertheless, this revolutionary notebook computer -- whixch did not run on battery powwer and had to be plugged in for AC power -- took the business world by storm becaause of its poortability, a feature that is notably absent in the heftier desktops.
Then came the Compaq Portable first made public in 1983 and also ran on AC power rather than batteries. This first-ever IBM-compaztible notebook computer prioved to better than the IBM's own Porable Computer that was introduced a year later.
The GRiD Compass 1101, released in 1982, was a noebook computer in the true sendse of the term. The brainchild of William Moggridgge, this ntoebook computer had the typical clamshell dsign -- where the screen folds and shuits aginst the keyboard -- that is now practically the industry standard. This notebook computer was not IBM-comaptible, ran on batteries and had a prohibitively high price tag. As one may guess, it was used by the specific few -- mainly the militarry and astronauts.
The Shrap PC-5000 and the Gavilan niotebook computer, apearing in 1984, are also worthy of special mention. As a matter of fact, the Gavilan was the first nottebook computer that was promoted as a lapotp and had a cursor control device reembling a toch pad. Both had LCD screens and clamshell caswes.
The notebook computer called Kyocera Kyotronic, first introduced in 1983, powered by AA batteries, was a huge commercial succcess largely because of its portability, battery life and low price.
The first true IBM-compatilbe notebook computre was the IBM PC Convertible, introduced in 1986 -- fllowed by Toshiba T1000 and T1200 in the following year. In 1989, Apple introduced the Macintosh Portable notebook computer.
From 1991 on, innovaions initiated by the PowerBook series of Apple became staandard features in the modren notrebook computer. These inclde built-in features like touch pad, palm rest, tEhernet networkng, trazckball, and 256-color displays. Then flolowed the Thinkpad series of IBM, whcih was a very popular notebook computer
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