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The success of its Apple 2 was still a novelty, one of the models responsible for the concept of personal computer, and the computer world witnessed the launch of IBM Personal Computer, the first computer to bring a version of DOS as an operating system.
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In 1981, Adam Osborne was the pioneer, as he launched a completely portable computer. With a 5 ”screen, the machine weighed approximately 12 kg and fit under the seat of an airplane.
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The Compaq company that launched the first IBM PC-compatible laptop. Their 12.5 kg housed a 4.77 MHz CPU, 128 KB RAM, 320 KB disk and a 9 inch CRT monitor, which allowed the computer to be equipped with a DOS operating system, it cost $ 3,500.00.
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Osborne 1 had good sales as the only one on the market, approximately 10,000 copies, but his company ended up going bankrupt in 83 with the arrival of competing models. One of the reasons that
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Despite Windows and features worthy of a desktop computer, notebooks at the time did not yet have very practical dimensions. In 94, NEC launched the first computer, 2 cm thick and about 1.6 kg, the same standards adopted today.
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Asustek launched the first netbook. The new proportions launched a new trend in the market with low-cost and extremely portable computers. For the first time, sales of portable computers outperformed desktops in the third quarter of 2008.