History of the Laptop
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- 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.
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"Speaking of paper, do you do your accounting on paper"
"That's tearable"
Wow!
lol 👏👏👏
@@vardhanpatil5222 that has nothing to do with accounting
@@vardhanpatil5222 it wasn't even a joke.
@@plutoidrepublic2765 which joke?
Be careful with that IBM-5100. You might accidentally time travel
lmao
NEVER FORGET JOHN TITOR! lol
No you might get killed by the rounders if you have one
Only if you insert the casette tape while pressing the date you want to travell to.
Steinsgate
4:33 "Uppgradering"
Andres Marrero 5:24 "HD Screams"
Swedish speakish
Andres Marrero Står ut ganska fort!
Dat nostalgi :')
I had to pause on that, haha
This is the most interesting video I think you've made yet.
I love you Linus
no i love him more
guys stop. I love him most.
The Narrator if you liked this you would probably like the show halt and catch fire. It's about the history of computers
Hanesh Johnson does it have Linus though
The Narrator sadly not
That ibm 5100 cost $9000, that's sounds familiar. Hmmmmmm.......
*Stares at predator 21x
Wait someone remembers the acer predator 21x?
funny at just sometimes ago $9000 laptop is a crazy deal and has to be delivered by helicopter but now $10000 studiobook proart just flying around in linus's room
@@khangle6872 While 9k is a crazy amount of money for a gaming machine, in the professional world it is rather normal to spend tons of money on devices not because they are cutting edge, but because of the support you get from the company in the form of services, drivers etc.
Even laptops 30 years ago had more ports than the new MacBook.
All laptop companies are getting rid of ports.There's no need for them anymore because everything is getting wireless nowadays.We store things mostly in a cloud.
teicix not true. Many people still prefer to use peripherals that use ports as they are generally cheaper. If we buy stuff with less ports, we will have to invest a lot more in wireless technologies. Thumb drives are also still very popular and in no way declining.
yu qi yuan yeah,but it's slowly changing.I personally haven't used CD drive and all but one usb port and headphone jack in years.There's no need for peripherals when you can just use your cloud instead.
Bro, roasted
I miss the printer port, scanner port, 2 PS2 ports, VGA & RS232... it is definitely better to have 10 ports where you connect max. 1 special device, and in case you need a 2nd one you are screwed...
A shame he didn't mention the ThinkPad
Tobias G. Yeah
It's not that significant
Why wouldn't it be "that significant"? I'm just asking. If it's been around for over 25 years, there has to be a reason
Thinkpad is pretty good, 11 inch models are good but 15 is just: £1000 when you could buy an XPS or gaming laptop or gaming rig
why do ThinkPads have such a big fanbase... theyre just any other buisness laptop?
I'm sad that I sold my old laptop for 6 quid, I had Doom on it running at max settings, what a beast.
@FrameDYN's-comment/post "I'm sad that I sold my old laptop for 6 quid, I had Doom on it running at max settings, what a beast.":
First of all, please forgive me for saying [. That was an EPIC laptop! O_O ]
man you could travel through time with that thing 0:46
steins;gate anyone? no?
Hydrodensity DG DAFUQ?? I was just thinking about Steins Gate
Hydrodensity DG you are my hero ily
@Suffer No Fools stfu
El psy kongroo
GRiDs were legitimately some of the best built computers ever made, and really did some amazing things.
Ghost Linus at 6:04
hs0003 I won't be able to sleep tonight
I don't get it
+Ernest a shot of linus flashes between the transition
when u see the guy handing a laptop from the top of the screen corner at 6:05 u will see Linus for a 0.05 sec xD
go on 6:04 and play the video on 0.25 speed :0
Is that like an easter egg they do every now and then lol
Windows 95 "Uppgradering"
A little Swedish up in here, I see.
bomfalleralla
Heja!
Or norwigean
You mean upgrading
yup
6:57 that's literally my laptop.
wow you drew your laptop and it magically appeared what's up gandalf
@0:44 - Steins;Gate anyone?
El Psy Congroo
TO TOROOOO!!
Steins;Gate 0 serialization when?
I never thought I'd have to correct Congroo to Kongroo on any of Linus' videos.
A marvel of engineering, don’t you think?
Linus, you look really low resolution today. You feeling alright?
Rusk1Lad He's feeling great
He is out of focus.
***** That's a sad moment caught on camera
Michael Boyle The flag PW do it. We do a complete until we do I can speak into winter
Michael Boyle "are you running well"
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.
codemancjackson atleast you know theres limitations
Cool Moo5e oh yeah knowing what your tech can and cannot do will save you much frustration
codemancjackson oh, I know. Just talk to my grandfather on my dad's side, he pretty much saw the evolution of computers, he started working with them in the 1960s, he retired around early 2013. He can tell you a story regarding computers, his friends brother was also sort of around computers too, and I'm pretty sure they both do remember when the internet was Arpanet back in the day. There's a misconception that the internet was "invented", it wasn't really "invented" like some people believe, like I said, my grandfather on my dad's side and his friends brother were around computers when it was still Arpanet, Arpanet evolved into the internet that we know today.
You can (although it's HDMI), with an Intel Compute Stick.
@DESS DESS why are you calling me a idiot?
$9,000. Carrying case, extremely heavy. This IBM is the Acer Predator 21x of the seventies.
Except it was 30 pounds more... But whatever
Dang! It matches so well!
When apple was innovating
tru
now they just eliminate ports from notebooks
They only really innovated 1 of the items listed which was wifi, other than that, those others have already been done before Apple marketed it.
Did we watch the same video? The first GUI on a laptop? The first on-board mouse? The first trackpad? The first webcam on a laptop?
Other companies innovated a lot too, but give credit where it's due.
dublinus Apple didn't invent things,but they make it perfect which is why i used to like them.
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.
Mikey *prime minister
Ben Paulsen Beat me to the punch, didn't you?
Mikey As a canadian I approve. Just remember we dont have a president.
Ben Paulsen lord*
in metric so rest of the world can understand?
fuck off man
Random Guy Chill bruh
How about learning to convert.
+Oliwer Gumowski 1 pound is .45 kg, so basically just take the pound number and cut in in half.
Metric didn't win two World Wars
1975-"'Brand new trending laptop for only $10,000!"
2018-" Amazing and trending laptop for only $300!"
Fucking Apple. I hate that company but they sure revolutionized a lot back in the day
Salty der Regenmacher Yeah. Things have been going downhill since Steve died
It wasn't Apple, it was Steve jobs
Darksyne So, Apple...
+JamEngulfer so Steve jobs...
Signal Radar things were going downhill before Steve Jobs died. The hill just got steeper after he died.
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.
Interesting design... *toilet seat*
You mad bro?
Same thoughts
The code name was _”Clamshell.”_
What, the toilet seat laptop was an amazing design.
That is the late 90s for you, curves were all the rage.
:o is it sips o clock
That and the iMac G3 seemed so modern and fancy back then. You can tell what era they were made in for sure these days. I remember when teachers in school were getting the "brand new" G3 molar Mac. Seemed so 'new'. I never really used the old Mac OS (9 and older) enough to understand it, I didn't really own a Mac until 2008 with OS 10.5.
It was the first laptop in the world to ship with an inbuilt Wifi receiver on a Laptop.
6:27 well thats tearable
Hey Linus! I Just wanted to say that I always enjoy watching your videos. You're very good at keeping your audience interested throughout the video.
And thanks for taking your time to research all these things for us! *upvotes*
you definitely need to make more of this Linus 👍
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.
Yep and he left out the Thinkpad Transnote among many other things like the DTR craze of the mid 2000s which were some epic laptops even now.
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.
I love these quirky off the cuff videos about tech stuff. Keep them coming.
i honestly wasn't expecting mention of the grid compass
thx linus bb
Thank you, I am glad. That my collection of Laptops both Apple OS, and Windows OS are still running Some Museum I got..
When Linus was talking about the Grid Compass and display when the quality dropped I got scared lol😂😂
Wonderful video. Very informative even for experts in the field such as myself. Subscribed!
thats an iteresting video you got there bro. thank you so much now i know the hestory of the laptop...
Anyone else remember Chandler's laptop with 12 Megabytes of RAM?
Compaq Contura, anybody want to play doom?
If it could run Crysis it’s all good
El Psy Congroo.
It's Kongroo, though.
In the anime, the sub has Congroo instead of Kongroo.
First of all, there isn't any pronounciation difference between Kongroo and Congroo, therefore that point is null and void.
Second of all, even if there was, the dub is based off the rather shoddy Crunchyroll subtitles (that even the sub author, who also did the Steins;Gate 0 VN admits were shit)
the kissanime subtitles use congroo.
KissAnime uses HorribleSubs, which are just glorified Crunchyroll rips.
id love to see some retro tech videos on LTT linus, this was really interesting, maybe talk about that bubble storage thing?
I remember using the Osbourne. I also remember the Amstrad PPC512 and Amstrad PPC640. Not clamshells but in 1988 were a cheaper mobile option than most manufacturers. They didn't take off though
I like it when Linus talks about THICCness
3:32
Trackpoint is the best thing in laptops even today.
Give me a trackpoint over any trackpad any day of the week. I much prefer a real mouse tho but I till happily use a trackpoint and have the trackpad disabled on my T420.
@@Montisaquadeis -Someone who has never used a Macbook’s trackpad
They literally have objectively the best trackpads in the business. Most people using it often say they don’t even feel the need for a mouse (only except when playing games, which a trackpad will never be enough for)
I got a few iBook's myself, and they're definitely a significant piece of history. I just think its crazy how wifi is such a normal thing today, yet it was such a big deal back then to be able to connect to the internet "wirelessly".
love these they always give me something interesting to say around family
I *need* that IBM 5100! For... um... non-time related stuff.... ::sweatdrop:: El Psy Congroo.
Laptop master race.
Laptop master race is still pc master race. A laptop is a personal computer the last time I checked.
therobloxGuy8 naaa laptops are better than desktop
My laptop has a 1060. No low grade here.
CptHuggyFace just no.
Probably? That should be mandatory.
This was fascinating! :) I hope that at some point we could get something similar about DRAM, or maybe the evolution if CPU's, those would be very interesting topics to explore and learn about. :)
Maybe taking the concept to a larger scale, by making individual short educational videos like this one, for each major component of the desktop pc. I for one would love that!
This channel is like a history channel on electronic love it
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!
5:39 It didn’t seem so underpowered when it was running Linux.
Speaking of which, the concept might be making a comeback with new products like the Pinebook Pro. Only Microsoft cannot push Linux out of the market this time.
Best channel ever, thanks dude, and by the way you're funny, I've being watching you for a long time
"a reasonable $1800 in 1981"
That's nearly 5,500 dollars now.
Come ooon no John Titor or Steins;Gate references ;-:
Apple first with built in WiFi. I think not. My Toshiba Portege M300 was released in 1994 was WiFi equipped. It was also a convertible laptop/Tablet PC and ranks as one of the first "Proper" tablets way before Apple's offerings. It even had a stylus
Those were cool laptops, had two M400s.
Yeah they were great and way way way ahead of their time. Fold down like a laptop fold the keyboard all the way back to make a tablet. Something many are copying today for the first time not to mention you could also swivel the screen side to side.
Wi-Fi first appeared in 1997 and you're laptop came out in 2005. Why would you lie about something like this, especially when it can be easily debunked with a quick search online.
Lmao you’re an idiot man. This guy just debunked your entire bullshit comment.
I like that you guys have shorten and varied the ending there
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.
When you talked about wifi I lost connection
Guys the Macintosh portable
Really great videos!! Love these instructionals for lack of a better term. They are a great guide on the history of technology. Any new crazy PC builds coming up soon? Will you be getting a Ryzen CPU? I know that's a dumb question but was curious nonetheless. Thanks for the awesome content!
Love it thank you ..Memories' Thanks
You didn’t mention the Macintosh (not very) portable
You forgot the Macintosh potable. It was apples first “potable computer”
ah. the 95 dos fish. my first OS. thanks Linus. thanks for the flashback.
appreciate your sponsorship with quick books. small business owner here and loving the features.
a 9000 thousand dollar heavy laptop..hmmmmm I think ive heard of that before(21x)
Man I love old computers, even started my own collection!
Griffin I've been wondering about doing that myself. So you know about the 8-bit guy? Look him up in CZcams.
I love it that you took a picture of a swedish copy of Windows 95! :D Uppgradering means upgrade!
When I was about 4-3 years old my mom had a bright green netbook and for me it worked good enough but I want to see it again now
wow a laptop?!
Any laptop is better than Alienware...
Deon Spates alienwares are good just take care of em
Considering Alienware laptops aren't any more expensive than most other manufacturers' gaming laptops these days, that isn't really true anymore. Also, my M15X from 2010 is still working just fine today. Couldn't have asked for a better machine. (Though I did replace it with an MSI GS63VR this year.)
battery is dead on my 2013 17. :(
I have fallen out of the laptop scene since 2014. Is Alienware still the laptop company which makes laptops at ridiculously high prices compared to its competitors?
Dell still maintains their Alienware brand, but they actually released a second line of gaming laptops, the Inspiron gaming series. This lineup, based on their Inspiron mainstream laptop line, is a line of lower end gaming laptops designed to be the best bang for the buck with gaming performance. I have last year's Dell Inspiron 7559 gaming laptop. This laptop actually cost me less than $1,000, and with its quad core i5 and GTX 960M graphics, it has crushed every game I have thrown at it so far. This years models range from Radeon Mobility RX 460 graphics all the way up to GTX 1050 ti desktop class graphics, and range in price from around $650 to $1,200.
Hey Linus, I am currently using the Windows 8.1 start screen and love it. I also think netbooks should get some love. Video about why netbooks might still have a use when? especially with the optimizations in Windows 10, they don't need to be stuck on Windows 7 Starter anymore.
Thats a great segway in the end!!
that moment when u realize that a 1980s keyboard is better than the new innovative macbook
So many unhappy macbook users. Nobody forced you to waste over a thousand dollars on a machine that is designed for the undereducated.
uhh, hated those netbook things, so many people would ask me to help them get things working on their laptop, not realising they didn't actually have a 'laptop', they were so under powered it could be a struggle to get them to play video sometimes
Yeah, they were a good concept, my gripe was mostly that they were sold as alternatives to laptops, and the people that bought them didn't know any better, and expected more from them than they were capable.
the form factor still has great potential but my God the specs were cancerous and even more so now. People still don't know what a real laptop is and they just buy the thinnest overpriced toy they can buy only for it to be a hotplate or the screen gets cracked ect. As for me I collect what I can before gems like the XPS M1730 become to rare or too expensive.
Theres always the Dell XPS M2010. 13" is still around and those netbooks seem to have transitioned into Chrombooks now a days. Yeah netbooks were a couple of years before their time to be honest. Now if they would have waited until say tablets became big then they might still be around today.
I had a first gen Asus Eee which to be fair was amazing for the time but it was barely able to run XP and any remotely powerful app was treacle slow. If you wanted something relatively small (and cheap for the time) to web browse and do basic productivity tasks on though it was pretty useful.
hey vegeta how much does that portable cost?
Vegeta: ITS OVER 9000
My favorite Laptop/Notebook configuration was a Compaq with a docking station. Connected to the docking station was a large monitor, keyboard, mouse and connection to the network like a normal desktop. You just had to slide the Laptop halfway into the docking station which then automatically pulled it in and make all the connections. You could even "tell" the docking station what time it must eject the Laptop (quite handy in an area with afternoon electrical storms). Unfortunately the docking station was very expensive and all upgrades to Laptops were incompatible with the docking station. I thought it was very mean of Compaq.
My dad carried the Nuclear Football, he said that there was a small laptop inside, along with the codes for the Nuclear weapons.
U did not mention toshiba first laptop
I’m not very old and I remember bigger laptops and did any of you guys have those little portable black and white TVs with an antennae on it?? I miss those believe it or not
3:12 the start of ultrawides
Linus, why are the weights in imperial measurements and not metric?
Because he is aiming with his videos for an american demografic reather than a european one.
And because he's not a commie.
One of those comments that have likes for no reason.
Gaming Culture nice comment
Anyone else tried to remove that hair from their screen? :D
I thought your picture was an eyelash on my screen
4:15 I have to use USB Trackball on my desk which is actually more ergonomic than a pointing device on the laptop itself (with the exception of a touchscreen, but I mean on the bottom keyboard not the screen part...)
Thanks for info.
no steins;gate joke? ffs, i'm DISAPPOINTED in you!!!
There seems to be a common theme of apple making something and then everyone else using it (At least for the most part).
I have noticed this as well. Apple seems to be the leader when it comes to innovation and making things that change the way we live. Their mistake is that they insist on producing all their products themselves at ridiculous prices. Along comes competition and Apple quickly ends up comprising just a small portion of the market share. Their answer? Litigation. Unlike the competition which tries to one up themselves and allows the tech to be used by any number of 3rd parties.
.........what a load of shit
Sorry but Apple never really made anything all they did was Copy something else and market it really well aka Apple has ALWAYS been a marketing genius of a company thanks to Jobs. AKA many of the things they are credited with where taken from others such as the GUI for example. They took that from Xerox for example.
Apple didnt make anything? They just copied something else??? wow.
They must of copied some really amazing well thought out intuitive designs with amazing class and top notch industrial design with amazing results and hardware and software that just works more than any other company. And they copied this over and over again. wwwooww.
shempone honestly I don't think putting a picture of a bitten apple on anything constitutes as better design worthy of the high price.
5:11 The 'Clamshell,' or at least a vague representation of it, can be seen as sort of an 'easter egg' in one of the GBC-era Pokemon games, in I think Elm's lab, if you either pay really close attention, or are emulating the console and have a screen good enough to show such details.
That awkward moment where you have to watch Techquickie just to get your fix on a proper Linus outro.
27 comments in 1 minute? ok...
But do any of these run crisis
Wesley Elder Of course it can Crysis with an setting of *Super Ultra Low Graphic* with a Solid 1 FPH (Frame per Hour) for 3 minute before Exploding!!
GlassTuber Studio's lies these can run crisis at 4K 999fps
My previous PC was bought 10 years ago and it's able to run Crisis. 😉Because the games is also 10 years old and this PC was some sort of high end those days.
It's crysis. Noob. 😂
A laptop design at 5:10 - 5:18 looks cool!! If only we can see a laptop design like that again with a new high spec built version with a new OS version in it, absolutely I am interest to buy it someday.
Wow, in this TQ episode, Linus' skintones are on spot, good job who ever did the colors. Next step could be adding 180° motion blur since you guys shoot with a higher shutter speed because of the keying. Also very interesting content by the way. ;-)
why does everyone hate w8 metro screen so much? I actually like it
Windows 8 doesn't, but that's what third party programs are for. Some people hated the start menu changes in Vista and Windows 7 as well, hence why people offered free programs to change the style back to Windows XP or older. Windows 10 offers a compromise between the two.
it looks ugly as fuck
I was perfectly fine with the change tot he Startmenu in Vista while Metro/Modern Ui that is used in 8 is terrible since it takes up the entire screen for soemthing that use to only take up a fraction of it. I use Classic shell on Windows 10 to make my start meny resemble Vista/7 rather then say XP or Older.
Same here, still using Windows 8.1.
Daniel Lee I'm pretty sure it was because widows 8 was setup to be used with the idea of a touch screen.
How to get rich with time travel :
Get a 1000 dollar laptop , travel back in time to 1950 and sell it to the richest person in the world at the time .
If you can time travel, ain't it just cheaper to go only a handful of days back and get the right numbers on all kinds of lotteries?
Kalvinjj I'm bamboozled
"Uppgradering"
That gave me a chuckle.
Haha
My dad had an IBM Portable Personal Computer in 1984, one of the earliest portable machines. It ran DOS 1. To say the least, it was not very portable due to its huge size. It is still a cool piece of computing history, and believe it or not, we still have it, and it is still in fully working condition.
Good thing i was born in the 2000s
Right. You missed out on the creation and evolution that paved the road to the device(s) you take for granted today.
Same
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are you actually takin the piss
BSG 😂
BSG i think you don't get it
I have had this intresting idea. If I had a couple million to throw away, I would make a litteral NoteBook Tablet, that has 16 gigs of storage or 32, access to online textbooks, has room for music, and can store notes, and can display a teachers current display on the projector... This would make it more affordable than having laptops for every student in school.
This is the first time I subscribed to a channel because someone asked me to... loved that :)