the evolution of laptops and portablecomputers this was the first portablecomputer the IBM 5100 here it's shownpowered on and attached to an externalmonitoralthough weighing 55 pounds it was muchlighter and portable than previouscomputers the Xerox note-taker was a bitmore portable and its keyboard foldedout to reveal its screen it employedwhat was then highly advanced technologyincluding 256 kilobytes of RAM and a 5megahertz Intel CPU launched in April1981 the Osborne one is recognized asthe first laptop computer it was thefirst commercially successful portablecomputer costing eighteen hundreddollars weighing 25 pounds and shippingwith a large bundle of software laterthat year Epson released a tiny batterypowered portable computer that tradedscreen size for convenience it washailed by Businessweek magazine as thefourth revolution in personal computingand create a few problems unless it'sthe new absent HX 20 notebook computerit does what most computers do withoutthe powerwith a built-in screen and printer youcan do real computing and wordprocessing anywhere the grid compass wasthe first portable computer thatresembled our current laptops because ofits high price and specializedapplication it was mostly used by the USgovernment NASA used it on the spaceshuttle during the early 1980s as it wasboth powerful and lightweight and theSpecial Forces used them for theirruggedness and use of solid-state memorythe trs-80 sold through RadioShack waspopular with journalists they could typeabout 11 pages of text and then transmitit for editing using the built-in modem[Music]Radio Shack's revolutionary model 100computer it's a word processor phonedirectory and dialer it evencommunicates with the office computer in1984 the Commodore SX 64 was the firstportable computer to feature afull-color display screen it weighedabout 20 pounds and sold for ninehundred and ninety five dollars itshipped with 64 kilobytes of RAM and aone megahertz CPU it did not sellparticularly well but became popularwith user groups and software developersthey could quickly pack and unpack themachine to use for copying software orgiving demonstrationsthe IBM PC convertible was the firstlaptop to use the three and a half inchfloppy disk format which went on tobecome the industry standard like modernlaptopsit featured power management and theability to run from batteries the SLT286 was the first battery-powered laptopto support an internal hard disk driveand a vga compatible LCD screen itweighed 14 pounds in 1989 the NECultralight was considered to be thefirst notebook style laptop since itweighed less than five pounds it waspriced around five thousand dollars andshipped with an 8 megahertz CPU afterthe failure of their first laptop Applereworked the concept and released thepower book line in October 1991 theyimmediately caused a stir in theindustry with the dark gray cases andthe positioning of the pointing device[Music]it will let you run ms-dos software itwill let you run Macintosh software[Music]it will let you run away[Music]in 1992 Olivetti developed and releasedthe first laptop featuring a touchpadthe position near the base of the screenwas the norm as most applications weretext-based and did not require apointing device that same year Olivettireleased a smaller laptop the cuadernocapable of audio recording while thecomputer was off an almost instant bootup it shipped with a 16 megahertz CPUone megabyte of RAM and 20 megabytes ofhard disk space the concerto was thefirst convertible laptop it had adetachable keyboard pen and touch screenbut the touchscreen only worked with thespecial pen like today's tablets most ofthe electronics were housed with thescreen this laptop was definitely aheadof its time[Music]in 2002 the portage 8 was the thinnestlaptop to be developed at onlythree-quarters of an inch of thethickest part it also featured the first1.8 inch hard drive in a laptop the TC1100 had a very unique design it was ahybrid laptop which included atouchscreen stylus and tablet modeunfortunately Windows XP was not a touchfriendly OS hampering its success likethe concerto this was another laptopthat was ahead of its time[Music]Asus released the 701 in October 2007which was the first netbook on themarket it featured a 7-inch screen anIntel Celeron M processor and a 4gigabyte hard diskthe yoga 13 was one of the first modernhybrid laptops taking advantage ofWindows 8 touch interface the name yogais a reference to the unit's designwhich allows for differentconfigurations the Razer Blade was thefirst true portable gaming laptop atpoint nine inches thin and weighing 6.5pounds the blade Pro was the mostportable 17-inch gaming laptop in itsclass[Music]the yoga book hybrid laptop brought evenmore functionality in 2016 by using adigitizer panel as the keyboard the userwas able to draw write and type on thesame panel the trade-off was the lack ofhaptic feel and feedback when inkeyboard mode the 2018 version of theyoga book now uses e ink for thekeyboard panel eing allows for a morenatural drawing surface and for custominput entry layouts depending on theapplication being used and mostimportantly it allows for readingwithout wasting any battery or having tocarry a second device asus is currentlyworking on project Precog which consistsof a dual monitor laptop similar to theyoga book but without the limitations ofe ink both could be used as monitors byconnecting an external keyboardor both monitors can be used for gamingor for presentations in laptop mode onemonitor is used normally while the otheris used as the keyboard or control panel[Music][Music]