Laptop 89' Convention

[Jackikalis]

Now we have the Macbook Air.

[20bitee]

@Jackikalis There were extremely thin laptops way before the Macbook Air buddy.

[MrBibi86]

what about if u want 365 days of charging?

[bloggieguy]

Epson made computers then too?

[bloggieguy]

wow i did not know Zenith used to make computers. I thought they just made tvs and vcrs

[badreality2]

Old laptops always look so wonky to me.

[shaindaman13]

@badreality2 Ha ha. I like that word. "Wonky". That's a great description.

[badreality2]

@shaindaman13 Thank you. :)

[pugay69]

1:06 take that, iPhone!

[MrJ0mmy]

a laptop with a red screen LMFAO

[kodaikun]

The funny thing about this video, is there were some pretty neat ideas shown, some of which kinda/sorta made it to today. That credit card storage looks a lot like the flashdrives of today. The removable CD-Rom looked almost like a zip disk, pretty neat, especially when you think of what power computers had then. 286 CPUs - 40MB hard drives......

[SerialKiller1986]

Wanna have the ultimate 80s experience ?

try watching this while "Shrunken Heads" By "Zombi" is playing in the background. :D

[SlightyDisturbedNBK]

I'd have waited for the Apple PowerBook 100 in 91. Forget this junk.

[LobeWan]

I would never put that on my lap...

[ArcadeGames]

I still use a 40mb hard drive.

[sandweged]

that cradle is awesome, lol.

[BigRed4231]

wow! this stuff is rad!

[KaxiLaxi]

god they are horrible...

[goingwithzed]

40MB disk - pretty big for the day. I could put up to 15 of todays powerpoints on that.

[joeruckasnucka]

those were the 1st laptops though and my laptop can get about 2 hours out of its battery

they werent really laptops, just portable desktop systems as they were much the same size

[locouk]

In 20 years we'll be laughing at our laptops we have today and saying "500 Gig? My watch has more than that!" and WTF is a CD Rom?

[WarpeaceWar6]

@locouk mines has 128...

[VideoGameResearcher]

@locouk Hahahaha!!! :D Even though ,ost people don't use CDs and DVDs that much anymore because of hard drives, they better have a hard backup of their information on those disks because when (not if) their Hard Drives fail......

[Tha2ndWimp]

These "portables" are bigger than my 20" iMac ^^ (in volume at least)

[onlinehacker1]

my droid x has a much faster processor than this laptops LOL!! :)

[lctb51]

The computer with the phone is kind of like the cellular 3g netbooks today

[sini8080]

This video is so much win.

[lctb51]

HA HA HA a hug laptop with a ancient cell phone built in!

[telecomboring]

Computers then where crap.

Mind you they still are.

[Donaldk52796]

10 hours on my macbook

[pufixas]

@Donaldk52796

:D

[ThePhoneUpdate]

Silly people getting 1-2Hrs. of battery! Get a MacBook or a Acer TimelineX! I've got 10 hours out of mine!

[RexTheCyberdog]

LCD.... oooh... Fancy

[Stereolabdream]

Buy a Dell Inspiron in 2009 and quickly discover that you have NO battery life....some say they did that deliberatly....I couldn't possibly comment.

[DarkShadowRage2]

cellphone built in!? IM SOLD

[Pinwormx]

Fascinating

[spawngt]

omg that 2 inch floppy disk is so cute :3

[virustwin]

complete with built in antenna

[tallirasha]

0:47 i think those caddies were a great idea

[masterpj55]

what was this reporters name I heard maria gape real

[adryanv]

I remember seeing these things as a kid. 5K to 6K USD was the average price for these laptops. Imagine these were 1990 dollars adjust that for inflation and that is probably 8K to10K today.

[abcpea]

0:47 why dont we have this

[persevere67]

pos

[ArcadeGames]

40mb hardrive!!!

[vwrafi]

3 hours on battery in 1989 ? 2010 and no improvement here :(

[Fender7083]

@vwrafi beside's 89's were drip charge. Charge for 3 hours, get three hours!

[MrCausePain]

that phone computer sounds bit retarded :D

[mickeydamon]

@MrCausePain Not back then it didnt!

[singinglawnchair]

1:08 - the first iPhone!

[NLS87]

3Hrs? Pretty good...

[Gearsguy405]

OMG 40MB HARD DRIVE?!

Beats my G72GX

[CynixBox]

LapCinderBlock 89' held just a few weeks ago in New York...

[michaelboett173]

lol......I've got two Toshiba T6600C...cool :) Want morge old mashines ;)

[cjholly91]

Should go back in time with one of today's laptops, and replace Bill Gates with myself.

[TVperson1]

The one with the CD-rom is massive. And now 20 years later we can get 16GB on something the size of a thumb nail.

[johneymute]

hey that,s cool a cd in a caddy case,some wich also nintendo wanted for their never released snes cd rom addon.

i dit,nt knew that even coputers back in those day,s were advanced enough to be porteble,sometimes with a color lcd,internet/phone connection and more,it existed allready but it was to expensive and younge to reach the massive public till the mid 90,s

[psivewri]

my compaq laptop doesn't even get 1.5 hours of battery lol

[Anavengertg]

@psivewri My Macbook gets aroud 5-7 hours now.

[MASTURCHEEF001]

@psivewri funny, my alienware does

[Xzeleous]

Did that Compaq guy say 3 HOURS of battery life?

We truelly live in the future.

[DRNEGOLICIS]

@Xzeleous are u serious my mom has a brand new HP with the high capacity batery it only will run 1.5 hours on a good day

[ufster81]

optical discs in protective cases... why the fuck haven't that become an industry standard ? I am so fricken sick of dvd backups of large tar files going corrupt because of some minor scratch.

[DRNEGOLICIS]

@ufster81 i totaly agree they should of kept it i see it as the same thing as keeping the hard disk exposed no body would do that so why keep an optical disk exposed?

[metro2002]

i'm watching this on a 7 inch netbook (asus 701) which has 100 times more computing power, weighs under a kilogram and costs a fifth of those machines.

Computer evolution at work. Great stuff and fun to watch!

[BilisNegra]

@metro2002 Now 7-inch screen netbooks suck and are something to laugh about...

[MrTabby5000]

Those were the days.

[camwps94]

40 MB Hard Drive lmao

[jfachris]

ouch.....

[DRNEGOLICIS]

@camwps94 i have a 10MB hard drive laying around

[silntdoogood]

Wish I was there...

No wait!

I wish I could go back and trade my xp system that is now out of date for everything in that show room. I bet they'd do it. and I'd trade nearly anything for one of those mini floppy disks and a reader!!

[ChasingSatanAway]

LoL...you needed a suitcase to lug around your laptop in those days.....the 80s were great...

[spywarehelping]

omg that compaq laptop is huge

[nickloss]

woot i have the slt/286

[IndieGameWatch]

3 hours of charge gets your 3 hours of use...

I feel ripped off my 2008 laptop gets me 2hr and 5 minutes. it use to get 3 but when i put ubuntu on it , it must use the full power of the laptop.

[GeminoSmothers]

my portfolio gets 6 weeks on 3 AAs lol

[iToasterman]

@IndieGameWatch get 12.0

[adryanv]

Its pretty amazing to see the granddaddies of our Macbook and Thinkpads looked like.

[buddiezever]

I've still got an Atari Portfolio! One of the best computers of all time.

[andrewschule]

This is so amazing how far we have come! look at this! haha!