The need for mobility

• Two trends:

  • High end workstations : graphical and scientific work
  • Easy to carry PCs: e-mail, Web, office suites

• Early transportable PCs

  • Osborne 1
  • Compaq portable
  • IBM PC Convertible
  • Macintosh Portable

• Recent mobile PCs

  • Timeline of Mac portable PCs
  • Laptops: desktop replacement and notebooks
  • Netbooks: rise and fall

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