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.

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