The first portable computer, developed by Adam Osborne and introduced in 1981. Floppy disk based with 64K of memory, the Osborne 1 used the CP/M operating system and a modified version of the ...

Created by British-American software publisher and computer designer Adam Osborne, the Osborne 1 is recognized as the first commercially successful portable computer, shipping in April 1981 ...

Priced at $4,000, the first ever "laptop" weighed 9 pounds ... the Gavilan SC was more compact than rival IBM PC-compatible portable computers such as the 28 pounder (13 kg) Compaq Portable.

After a couple of years of development, the world's first rollable display laptop, the Lenovo ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 Rollable, was finally unveiled at CES 2025.

Amid the many wonderful form factors being explored by the makers of cyberdecks, there’s one that’s emerged which harks back to an earlier generation of portable computers: the handheld pad ...

The Q1 even preceded the very earliest fully-integrated computers from IBM and Apple. In 1977, the IBM Model 5100 was released and marketed as one of the world's first 'portable computers'.

Valve’s handheld device, the Steam Deck, wasn’t the first portable gaming PC ever created, but it is by the far the most successful. And like Steam becoming the de facto way people play PC ...

The current laptop line is the MacBook, introduced in 2006. The first portable Mac came out in 1989. See MacBook and Macintosh Portable. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other ...