Online Computer Terms Dictionary - L

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)