The modern laptop has its origins in the mid to late 1980s, when shrinking computer hardware and improvements to battery technology finally made mobile computing practical. But before the now iconic ...

A fully functional portable computer that weighs in at only 29 lbs.? Now we’re talking. With features like word processing and a calculator, the 1984 LCD-286 PC computer was like carrying a filing ...

History records August 12, 1981 as the day IBM changed the computer industry forever by unveiling its first PC. But that machine’s official model number was 5150–marking it as a conceptual descendant ...

I don’t know about you, but I’d be absolutely lost without my MacBook Air. The laptop is so light that I forget that it’s in my bag most of the time. Within seconds, I can have the thing out on my lap ...

The first portable computer was unveiled 30 years ago yesterday. It was introduced by Adam Osborne and was called the Osborne 1. This groundbreaking device quickly gained popularity before the company ...