Notebook

The notebook, or laptop, is a mobile computer that is getting more and more popular actually.The energy source of the laptop is a rechargeable battery. Some peoples say the notebook is smaller than the laptop, but the peoples use laptop or notebook to talk about the same thing. A "personal, portable information manipulator" was imagined by Alan Kay in 1968, but only in 1981 Adam Osborne was the first people to create a computer that is completely portable. The first notebook had a 5'' screen and weigh 12kg.The Osborne 1, the name of this invention, was most popular, selling 10.000 laptops, but the factory was break after two years because others laptops were created. After the Osborne, other factories, Compaq, Epson did notebooks more and more better.



Many factories was created in this area, and the notebook is getting better and better.In 1985, the TRS-80 model 200 by Radio Shack was the first folding notebook, the peoples compared the invention with a copybook, that is more portable. The Thinkpad was the first notebook there ir the Windows portable and have a CD driver.

Actually, the factories continues to invent more and more improvements, wi-fi (mobile internet), a very thin screen, and others.