A Look now can make people smile, even the lowest in a smartphone is more powerful, but 30 years ago was an innovation that would change the way you use your computer. And 'The Osborne-1, the first truly commercial model of laptop sales, which just began in April 1981 - three months in advance of the first personal computer, desktop, IBM - marked the beginning of an era which culminated in recent years with the introduction of the tablet, and that tomorrow it could create even pc 'rolled up'.
Osborne-1 was submitted to the West Coast Computer Fair in San Francisco at a cost of $ 1,795 challenging enough. Although it was a laptop (actually belonged to the category of 'portable'), the Osborne-1 requires its lucky owner a certain physical strength because it weighed eleven pounds.
A tablet now reaches more than 600-800 grams and a laptop at no more than 2-3 kg. Had a capacity of 64 Kbytes of RAM, using the operating system CP / M, the predecessor of PC-DOS and MS-DOS, and how software and SuperCalc Wordstar, then both entered in the history of computing. Despite the screen from just 5 inches (13 cm), was still successful, as witnessed by sales of approximately $ 250 million, between 1981 and 1983.
Among other things, the computer has become famous for the 'Osborne Effect ": the premature announcement of his successor, more powerful and less expensive, in fact, caused a drastic drop in sales, helping to bring the company into bankruptcy in 1983. A mistake that has made school in the computer industry.
The Osborne-1 was soon widely imitated, and then replaced by other models much more advanced products from the competition. Five years after IBM launched its 'Convertible', which weighed half and had a much bigger LCD screen, in addition to 'well' 512 Kbytes of RAM. Following the laptop continued to lose weight while simultaneously growing the size of the screen, which since 1991 became standard in color.
Around the millennium have begun to get the 'desktop replacement', with a wide screen laptop, can provide performance equal to that table. Later, there was also the 'overtaking' and laptops have surpassed sales of desktop PCs. The race for miniaturization has not, however, never stops: first came the subnotebook (weighing between 800 grams and 2 kg) and, in the middle of the last decade, the netbook (between 800 and 1.2 kg).
These have been driving the computer market until the arrival dell'iPad, a year ago. The tablet of Apple has revived a segment of the market that languished for years, that of the tablet. A success, driven further dall'iPad 2, but went to the expense of PCs, especially laptops, whose sales are now declining.
So much so that analysts are starting to talk about a "post-PC world." But the traditional PCs still have some surprises in Serbia, as the 'rolltop', the German design Orkin. "The rolltop - says the airline's website - a computer is completely rolled up like a yoga mat, which can be unrolled and used both as real and as a laptop screen."
Osborne-1 was submitted to the West Coast Computer Fair in San Francisco at a cost of $ 1,795 challenging enough. Although it was a laptop (actually belonged to the category of 'portable'), the Osborne-1 requires its lucky owner a certain physical strength because it weighed eleven pounds.
A tablet now reaches more than 600-800 grams and a laptop at no more than 2-3 kg. Had a capacity of 64 Kbytes of RAM, using the operating system CP / M, the predecessor of PC-DOS and MS-DOS, and how software and SuperCalc Wordstar, then both entered in the history of computing. Despite the screen from just 5 inches (13 cm), was still successful, as witnessed by sales of approximately $ 250 million, between 1981 and 1983.
Among other things, the computer has become famous for the 'Osborne Effect ": the premature announcement of his successor, more powerful and less expensive, in fact, caused a drastic drop in sales, helping to bring the company into bankruptcy in 1983. A mistake that has made school in the computer industry.
The Osborne-1 was soon widely imitated, and then replaced by other models much more advanced products from the competition. Five years after IBM launched its 'Convertible', which weighed half and had a much bigger LCD screen, in addition to 'well' 512 Kbytes of RAM. Following the laptop continued to lose weight while simultaneously growing the size of the screen, which since 1991 became standard in color.
Around the millennium have begun to get the 'desktop replacement', with a wide screen laptop, can provide performance equal to that table. Later, there was also the 'overtaking' and laptops have surpassed sales of desktop PCs. The race for miniaturization has not, however, never stops: first came the subnotebook (weighing between 800 grams and 2 kg) and, in the middle of the last decade, the netbook (between 800 and 1.2 kg).
These have been driving the computer market until the arrival dell'iPad, a year ago. The tablet of Apple has revived a segment of the market that languished for years, that of the tablet. A success, driven further dall'iPad 2, but went to the expense of PCs, especially laptops, whose sales are now declining.
So much so that analysts are starting to talk about a "post-PC world." But the traditional PCs still have some surprises in Serbia, as the 'rolltop', the German design Orkin. "The rolltop - says the airline's website - a computer is completely rolled up like a yoga mat, which can be unrolled and used both as real and as a laptop screen."
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