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> and we complain for them being uncomfortamble to have on our bare laps... "lap"tops.

• JonnieCache 11y ago
  Isn't that why they started marketing them as "notebooks"? http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/11/22/man_burns_penis_with_laptop/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/11/22/man_burns_penis_with...
  • csixty4 11y ago
    Heat, definitely. Also, that was the time you started seeing 17"+ notebooks on the high end. One of my wife's friends bought a 20" "laptop" for her electrical engineering work. It looked comical on her lap, but was awesome for bringing work home on.
• coldtea 11y ago
  People also wear "wifebeaters" but we don't expect them to beat their wives in them. Also "laptop" is an american term. The rest of the world calls them something closer to "portable".
  • FreeFull 11y ago
    "laptop" is what they're called in Polish too
    • coldtea 11y ago
      Only if you mean, "they sometimes use the american term". Because otherwise the polish term is "komputer przenośny" (portable, movable, etc computer).