Word: notebook
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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According to industry reports, notebook computer sales have soared past those of desktop machines over the last tow years, and are showing no sign of slowing. Now that smaller systems cost little more than larger ones, and color displays have become very affordable, the trend is sure to accelerate...
...notebook is a complete system containing all compounds necessary for everyday use, from a powerful central processing unit (CPU) to a screen that can display more than a dozen lines of text, a full-size keyboard, and adequate amount of storage. Anything that weighs more than eight pounds is classified as a laptop-which has declined in popularity-and if a system goes under three pounds, it is called a subnotebook. Those under one pound are referred to as "palmtops...
Confused? If you think it's vexing telling a notebook from a subnotebook, wait until you try distinguishing one notebook model from another. There are at least 100 U.S. nationally advertised vendors who market notebooks, many of whom sell generic systems manufactured by a small number of Taiwan companies...
...three or four notebook vendors market machines based on the Intel 80x86 family of microprocessors and running the MS-DOS operating system and often Window. The latest member of the family is the 80486 line, which contains over one million transistors and generally runs at faster speeds than older 286s and 386s...
Also popular with notebook buyers are systems built around Intel's 386SL CPU/A member of the successful 80386 series, the chip was designed to prolong battery lives on notebooks, one of the biggest concerns for notebook users. It does so through a lower power requirement, an internal memory cache that Intel claims can speed up operations by up to 20 percent, and built in power-management circuitry that helps per serve as much power as possible...