laptop computer

computer (Commonly just "laptop") A portable personalcomputer 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)