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I would've even said ~15 years. I don't think I saw a laptop computer IRL until 2001-02 or so, despite living in an upper-middle-class part of the USA. When I e
by _delirium 12y ago
I would've even said ~15 years. I don't think I saw a laptop computer IRL until 2001-02 or so, despite living in an upper-middle-class part of the USA. When I entered undergrad in 2000 I'm pretty sure I had never seen one in person. They started getting common a few years later though.
- mturmon 12y agoI had a PowerBook 2300c with a dock in 1995 (10 year mark) that was very sweet. I used to stuff it in my bike pannier and take it back and forth between work and home. Color screen, MacOS 9.1. Not completely different from my current setup, with a laptop plus docking station.
- rgbrenner 12y agoThey were already quite popular by 2000. In 2000 laptops were 25% of computer sales (went to 54% in 2003). http://www.geek.com/chips/laptop-sales-exceeded-desktop-sales-in-may-552696/ http://www.geek.com/chips/laptop-sales-exceeded-desktop-sale...
- _delirium 12y agoInteresting! Unless my memory fails me, I don't remember having seen one until college (which I started in 2000), except on TV or in movies. And even then it was rare; not many college students prior to ~2002-03 had laptops. Wonder why not. I wonder what the figures would look like if you separated business and private sales?
- shouldbdan 12y agoI got my first laptop in 2003, when I went to college. I went to a lame state school, nothing fancy smancy, and it wasn't an uncommon thing at all to have a laptop. I didn't feel specially privileged, and I remember a number of people that had them. One of the wealthier kids in my high school even had a laptop/tablet hybrid thing a couple years before that -- one of those early ones that had a full version of Windows and a stylus.