Evolution of laptop
History of Laptop
In 1822, Charles Babbage designed the first ever mechanical computer, The Babbage Difference Engine and in 1942 a physics Professor John Vincent Atanasoff and his graduate student, Clifford Berry created the first modern electronic digital computer, called the Atanasoff–Berry computer, or ABC. The ABC was the basis for the modern computer we all use today. It weighed over 700 pounds.
We have come a long way since then. The computers earlier were, as I mentioned, extremely heavy and took up huge spaces and were mostly used for calculations. Now, as technology has evolved, we can play video games and send 4k cat meme videos to our friends within seconds using a desktop computer in our homes.
MY LAPTOP
A laptop computer is a portable computer that can be carried around in a briefcase and performs all of the functions of a desktop computer.
The MCM/70, released in 1974 from Toronto, Canada, was the first portable computer on the market.
The Osborne 1 was also one of the first popular portable computers. Its design was created by Adam Osbourne, and the most important specification requirement at that time was that the Osbourne 1 had to fit under an airplane seat. It had a five-inch screen that could only display 24 lines of text with 52 characters in each line.
Then we have, The Tandy Radio Shack Model 100 which was one of the first notebook-style computers, featuring a keyboard and liquid crystal display, in a battery-powered package roughly the size and shape of a notepad or large book. It was also remotely affordable.
HP released a compact version of their 16-bit Vectra CS computer in 1987. It featured the standard laptop configuration (keyboard and display close up clam-shell form to carry), but it was quite hefty and huge. It came with a full-size keyboard.
Macintosh Portable was a portable computer designed, manufactured, and sold by Apple Computer, Inc. from September 1989 to October 1991. It featured a fast, sharp, and expensive monochrome LCD screen and had a hinged design that covered the keyboard when the machine was not in use.
In 1989, Poqet Computer Corporation released the Poqet PC, a highly compact commutable computer. Because to sophisticated power management capabilities, such as turning off the CPU when it wasn't in use, it could last for weeks or months on just two AA batteries.
The PowerBook 500 from Apple was the first portable computer to have a touchpad, sometimes known as a trackpad, enabling mouse input. This was also the first portable computer to include 16-bit stereo sound.
ThinkPad is a range of business-oriented laptop computers and tablets created, manufactured, and marketed by Lenovo, and previously by IBM until 2005, when Lenovo purchased IBM's PC division. ThinkPads feature a characteristic black, boxy design language that was inspired by a Japanese bento lunchbox in 1990 and is still used in some variants today. The majority of models also have a red track point on the keyboard, which has become an iconic and unique design feature associated with the ThinkPad brand.
In 2008 the MacBook Air made history as the thinnest laptop to date. The laptop was only 0.76 inches in height and had a glossy screen that displayed at 1280x800 resolution.
Early laptop displays were so primitive that PC Magazine ran an article about them in 1986 with the heading "Is It On Yet?" Laptops became more helpful and popular as technology advanced in the 1990s. Prices dropped as a result. Several laptop-specific enhancements were immediately introduced, greatly enhancing usability and performance. Laptops now have features such as a touchscreen system, a video camera, and fingerprint sensors. Some of them, such as the Lenovo Yoga series, allow you to rotate the screen 360 degrees.
Laptops were an extremely incredible technological development, not only because all of my college work would be done on this innovation, but also because the functionality and design of this product has a large scope of evolving into something great.
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