History of the Laptop

We've gotten used to thin, light, yet powerful laptops that can do almost everything a desktop can - but it wasn't always that way! Learn about the history of laptops, from the earliest bulky portables to the sleek machines of today.

[NipunChamikaraWeerasiri]

"Speaking of paper, do you do your accounting on paper"



"That's tearable"

[christopherfassih]

Be careful with that IBM-5100. You might accidentally time travel

[Marc-zivg]

That ibm 5100 cost $9000, that's sounds familiar.
*Stares at predator 21x

[ye]

This is the most interesting video I think you've made yet.

I love you Linus

[henrychan]

Even laptops 30 years ago had more ports than the new MacBook.

[Michael-hppe]

GRiDs were legitimately some of the best built computers ever made, and really did some amazing things.

[theEpicDARKnessEvar]

man you could travel through time with that thing 0:46

[HEADSHOTPROLOL]

Windows 95 "Uppgradering"

A little Swedish up in here, I see.

[kirishima]

The Powerbook 100 didn't just popularize the trackball, it popularized the design of a palm rest in front of the keyboard, a standard feature in almost every laptop since.

Most Windows laptops in the mid 90s had no palm rest, with the keyboard at the very front and either a tiny track ball 'nub' between the keys or no build in pointing device at all.

[ActiumFilms]

Linus, you look really low resolution today. You feeling alright?

[Mikeywil]

Linus, I didn't think that the Canadian president had a nuclear football. I think the Canadian president just has a cell phone that dispatches a team to pummel people with hockey sticks.

[felixskolnik]

1975-"'Brand new trending laptop for only $10, 000!"
2018-" Amazing and trending laptop for only $300!"

[naut]

$9, 000. Carrying case, extremely heavy. This IBM is the Acer Predator 21x of the seventies.

[MrAntieMatter]

What, the toilet seat laptop was an amazing design.

[Codemantic]

I marvel at how far technology has come, to think that I can carry in my pocket a USB style computer that runs windows or a phone that can basically do (with some limitations) what desktops were used for 10 years ago.

[TRMartin]

I think you missed a few things: the Compaq luggable w/ Hercules graphics capability, the intel 386SL chipset that introduced the System Management Interrupt SMI, and NiCad batteries that introduced as usable power density for portability. APM & ACPI also played their part in furthering portability.

[janmetdepetop]

I saw the IBM 5100 at a friend of my father we were on vacation with. It only ran DOS and took like 12 or more massive D batteries but it's a marvel nonetheless. A milestone.

[Corristo]

Our school got two dozen of those 1999 iBooks and I simply couldn't wrap my head around how we were able to go on the internet without a cable. After all, at home we used a 56K modem installed in a PC.
I think the first laptop I ever used was an a 486 model with Windows 3.1 or something which belonged to my grandfather. It had a tiny display, but full color and had a trackball as well as a floppy drive on the side. To me it was amazing, especially since our own computer at home was a pretty clunky desktop with a huge 15" CRT monitor.

[DVDplayerz]

I like it when Linus talks about THICCness
3:32

[DaBoaringDragon]

Fun facts: The IBM 5100 (or in the show, the IBN 5100), was a major plot element in the anime Steins;Gate. | In the movie Aliens, look carefully. The computers used to control the auto turrets? Why, it was the Grid Compass!