computer (Commonly just "laptop") A portable
personalcomputer of a size suitable to rest comfortably on one's
legs. A laptop is smaller than a "
luggable" (portable, but
not comfortably) but bigger than a "
palmtop" (easily carried
in one hand or a shirt pocket).
Toshiba were one of the first companies to produce laptops,
in about 1989.
[First example? Date? Difference from "notebook"?]
(1994-12-21)