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When we see how sophisticated and sleek the laptops are these days, we tend to forget and keep on complaining about today’s laptop.

Personally I feel laptops have leap through giant footsteps to be it is today and when I look back I very grateful to own a laptop that is so easy and portable.

Today I’ll be talking about the Osbourne 1.

As you all know, the Osbourne 1 is the first successful portable computer ever made.
Not may may agree with me when you look at the picture below

The Osbourne 1 was created in 1980 by Adam Osbourne who was also a computer book author and publisher. He has a big vision that one day computers are made to be portable …. and that vision has came true with today’s portable laptops.

The computer was price at US$1795 at that time, consisting of of a set of keyboard, two floppy disk drives and a credit card sized monitor.

At that time 10, 000 units were sold each month and it was a major success as I could see it .
However by 1983, the Osbourne was overtaken by IBM and this model died.

So now, what do think about your laptop today?
I think you will start to be grateful about it and cause you need not have to carry a 24 pounds of Osbourne 1 on your back. Just Imagine ……

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When getting yourself a new notebook, i saw a lot of users blinded by the features, cost and looks of a notebook computer.

Who doesn’t ?

Its utterly normal when you go to the shopping mall or any electronics trade fairs that the first things the sales people will show you are the features, the cost and the looks.

But what about the size?

I’ll be very frank to tell you that size does matters…

Why?

The bigger the notebook (example a 15.4 widescreen notebook LCD), the heavier it gets.

Unless you using the notebook computer as a desktop replacement which will remain at one location at your home …. then a 15.4 or a 17 inch notebook will suit you fine.

Imagine going to one place to another carrying a 17 inch notebook computer on your shoulders! Damn!

So remember….. size does matters when you buy a notebook. Till next time folks …… Rock Forever…….