| Notebook, notebook computer, laptop, and laptop | | | | handheld computer with cellphone integration. Over |
| computer are different terms for a small | | | | the development phases, these classifications got |
| computer, which is mobile, and weighing about 1 | | | | blurry at times, and many machines fused |
| to 6 kg or 2.2 to 18 pounds, depending upon the | | | | functionalities of other categories. |
| model. In 1979-1980, Bill Moggridge of GRiD | | | | Notebooks can be used for various purposes. |
| Systems Corp. designed one of the first laptops | | | | Commercial purposes like attending phone calls, |
| and named it as the GRiD Compass 1101. It | | | | receiving and sending emails and faxes, typing out |
| featured the clamshell design where the flat | | | | letters and printing them, making presentations |
| display folded shut on the keyboard. In May 1983, | | | | with pie and bar charts, and taking data from one |
| Gavilan Computer Corp. introduced and first | | | | place to another can be achieved by any standard |
| marketed as a laptop, known as Gavilan SC. | | | | notebook. However, high fliers prefer thin-and-light |
| About this same time, Sharp Corp.Ltd., announced | | | | notebooks and for regular office work, |
| their laptop Sharp PC-5000. | | | | ultraportable notebooks are preferred. Both are |
| In 1989, Compaq introduced Compaq LTE, which | | | | wireless notebooks so they can be remotely |
| was a laptop of a smaller size, about the size of | | | | accessed. Scientific purposes are best suited with |
| an A4 paper notebook, and it popularly came to | | | | a notebook that features fast computing speed, |
| be known as a notebook computer or notebook. | | | | good 2D and 3D graphics display, and a large |
| Thereafter the terms laptop and notebook began | | | | memory, like desktop replacement notebook, and |
| to be used interchangeably. Nevertheless, the | | | | a thin-and-light notebook. Artistic purposes require |
| terms, notebook and laptop are incorrect terms, | | | | animation, 2D and 3D drawings, interior & |
| as due to the heat, many laptops cannot be | | | | exterior designing, arranging music compositions, |
| placed on top of the lap, and most notebooks are | | | | post-production audio-video work, etc., which can |
| not the size of an A4 paper notebook. However, | | | | be fulfilled by desktop replacements, gaming |
| what manufacturers usually call as a notebook, | | | | notebooks, and mainstream notebooks. |
| end-users prefer to call it as a laptop; hence both | | | | Educational institutions normally do not prefer |
| the terms are used. | | | | notebooks due to its high chance of being stolen. |
| According to the functions and the models of | | | | Additionally, they prefer that their assets do not |
| notebooks, they are generally classified as: | | | | move around within the premises in the hands of |
| Ultraportables (screen is diagonally less than 12 | | | | students who may be careless. However, to keep |
| inches, weight is 1.7 kg or less); thin-and lights | | | | up with the times, and to be considered as |
| (screen is diagonally from 12 to 14 inches, weight | | | | techno-savvy, they do invest in notebooks. The |
| is from 1.8 to 2.8 kg); medium-sized laptops | | | | types of notebooks best suited for educational |
| (screen is diagonally from 14 to 15.4 inches, | | | | purposes are mainstream notebooks, and desktop |
| weight is from 3 to 3.5 kg); and desktop | | | | replacements. Students need a notebook to do |
| replacement computers (screen is diagonally from | | | | projects, prepare study notes, and to play some |
| 17 to 20 inches, weight is 4 to 6 kg). | | | | games in their spare time. They need to take the |
| The concept of laptop was to make a device | | | | notebook wherever they go, hence, size and |
| that could use the same software of a desktop | | | | weight are major considerations. The type of |
| computer, but much smaller in size to enable | | | | notebook that fulfills student needs is a |
| mobility and support mobile computing (ability to | | | | thin-and-light notebook with locking facility so that |
| use the computer while in transit). Thus, further | | | | they can lock it with their backpack. Most |
| innovations have introduced transportables (which | | | | students report late submission of projects due |
| can be moved from one place to another without | | | | to their notebooks being stolen. |
| supporting mobile computing); tablets (which | | | | So no matter what the purpose one might have |
| feature touchscreens and support mobile | | | | for using a notebook, it seems that mobility will |
| computing); ultra mobile PCs (which are very small | | | | always seem to be the main reason for such a |
| and compact tablet PCs); internet tablets (which | | | | product purchase. Nowadays with so many |
| support internet and mobile computing); personal | | | | models being offered with affordable prices, it |
| digital assistants (PDAs), which are pocket-sized | | | | seems that notebooks will always be a product in |
| and support mobile computing; handheld | | | | demand. After all it is one of the best selling |
| computers, which represent expensive tablets or | | | | computer hardware for quite some time. And |
| PDAs; and smartphone, which is a PDA or a | | | | that says it all. |