laptop computer
<computer> (Commonly just "laptop") A portable personal computer of a
size suitable to rest comfortably on one's legs. A laptop is smaller than a
"luggable" (portable, but not comfortably) but bigger than a "palmtop" (easily
carried in one hand or a shirt pocket).
Toshiba were one of the first companies to produce laptops, in about 1989.
[First example? Date? Difference from "notebook"?]
(1994-12-21)
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