Darwin's theory of evolution, the survival of the fittest is its point of view, when large dinosaurs have ruled the Earth, but with climate change, everything has changed, and these big guys have become a fossil, and we rule the world. Today we will take everyone to take a look at a number of years before "notebook computer" then do not even have color monitors, notebooks from the huge, expensive synonymous has become today's portable, cheap, during which after a very long period of time, those great shape The notebook, and today seems no doubt that, like dinosaurs, and you definitely will not be second-hand market to see these things.
Today's notebook and desktop computers already have similar performance, but also in the generic basically the same, and now the notebook in the portability and performance can be regarded as impeccable, while the appearance on the laptop products and individuality are increasingly the pursuit of exquisite Delivery; as 30 years ago, NASA and the military made the beginning of this idea of portable computers, those big ugly performance notebooks in general, after so many years of development has been completely reborn in. know more to
Dell INSPIRON 9300 Battery1970-1981: the beginning of portable computers
Words in the long, long time ago, the idea of laptops from a person named Alan Kay, who work at Xerox, in the twentieth century, the seventies, when he came up with this idea, the old chap and even his ideas published.
Will soon have the company used his ideas are currently recognized by most people, like, the first laptop was Osbome 1,1981 by Adam Osborne Chupin, something that the entire weight is 11 kg, is basically a sack of rice or less. If this news has shocked you, here there are other, this product is 5-inch display. Would like to take this thing everywhere, you need the strength ...
1981-1984: IBM's rise
Although the broad masses of ordinary users to IBM know that from the small black notebooks start, but early in the eighties, IBM has already begun to join the cause of the laptop. However, when many utility companies to join the laptop are now concerned about the degree is not high, Gavilan introduced models that year, it had already some are like the notebook, and clamshell design is quite pretty trendy. That year the company introduced the weight of just 4 kg, the battery can be used time to reach 9 hours, know that it uses is? Nickel-cadmium batteries ... but look at the screen to know, and everyone seems to use the calculator almost, as well as the first division of the Laptop to laptop computers in this category is the Galvin Corporation.
The development of the Osborne 1 portable computer company, then this is certainly a huge potential market, Microsoft also get involved with this year, Radio Shack TRS-80 model 100 this product is to use Microsoft's text-editing software, machinery and use of LCD screens, bring their own modem, you can send some text.
When the Radio shack began to set foot in this market, when, IBM's products were first introduced, 84 years, PC5155, this product again back to the original portable notebook old.welcome to
ACER Aspire 3200 battery 1984-1988 Compaq into the notebook market
Compaq, is a company that was acquired by Hewlett-Packard, when regarded as wasteland when the definition of major companies are not the same notebook, what kind of shape it is strange there, Compaq introduced a 88-year SLT 286 has reached 640 × 480 resolution, this laptop has 1.44 inches of floppy drive interface, the whole weight of 6 kg, the machine also VGA output.
1989-1993 NEC into the line, the first Apple laptop
Japanese firms began to set foot in the notebook industry, NEC out is the introduction of the lightest notebook computer, you can completely run the MS-DOS computer, the machine weight is 1.99 kilograms, and today's notebook has almost the same. When 89-year, Zenith introduced a machine with 640KB of memory, 1.44-inch floppy drive, as well as modulation and demodulation as well as the 20M hard disk, as well as color display.
Apple is also entering the market that year, are now referred to as MAC and the full name is Macintosh, laptop was called the Macintosh Portable, the weight to 8 kg, has a very high-end time to 9.8-inch display, resolution of 640 × 400, and even rolling track ball, the next time, Apple's graphical interface operating system, so that everyone is very interested in the subsequent 93,256-color Apple PowerBook 165C notebook now has been quite the same again. The machine has a floppy drive, but then the price of products still can not give a lot of people to accept, or a small number of business people's top office equipment only.look!
Apple A1189 Battery 1996-2003: Panasonic military books and Intel processors,
96 years, Panasonic introduced the Toughbook (CF-25) a drop from 70 cm height of the notebook is not broke, dust-proof waterproof, Matsushita's products is absolutely prepared for the development of new markets, such as the military market, which product to use a large number of metal. By 2003 with the Pentium M processor, the emergence of a large number of low-cost laptop market, a few hundred dollars of products into the mainstream, notebook product is no longer the choice of high-end business people, but rather the civilian-oriented products, especially post-secondary students in institutions, to facilitate the learning and entertainment, notebook is their good helper.
Today's notebook
Today's notebook products, wireless, 3G are the keywords, as well as Blu-ray drive, advanced graphics, as well as wide-screen portable, all so that the first laptop Osborne 1 looks like a useless monster. More beautiful and cooler notebook products more and more. In 2007 started the wave of the Internet, has even more original high-priced notebook market segmentation thin and exhausted, is mainly used to access these small, in fact undertake more work, in addition to 3G network, you can in the coffee shop of the class where the Internet.
In addition, the notebook will be more in the future direction of development is thin in one direction, the performance is another direction, there are still a lot of special products, such as dual-screen laptops, multi-touch, as well as gesture recognition, as well as thinner OLED technology.
The future of laptops
20 years ago, we look at Apple's MacBook Air certainly think that it is science fiction, but today it really occurs, and the future will be like?
Holographic technology, laptop computer, no screen, direct projection in the air, a strong touch technology, like many years ago to see the laser keyboard, as well as fuel cells, may give a laptop the same as the calculator, for a long time do not have to charge.