The Evolution of the Laptop

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Exactly what it says on the tin metacafeans, the evolution of the laptop since 1976 to today, and even beyond!.

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p.s. A Received a few messages citing my bias towards Microsoft, therefore, i had to water down on OS side of it, and had to therefore remain neutral.

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The Evolution of the Laptop

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the future briefcase notebook
looks really bulky and a waste.
By nighthawk17 1211347412 Reply Spam [+3] Moderate Up Moderate Down Remove ~~6406010~~
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- with new technology...
  you can stick 8 processors or more in that briefcase, making a portable high-end computer.
  
  I don't know if the one shown has super capabilities, but you never know...
  By kernel-panik 1211440177 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Remove ~~7194180~~
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- yeh
  yeh i totally agree, while your at, you have to put at least dual graphics card, cracnk it to the max baby!!, anyway thanks for viewing my vid, hopefully i can own a high end laptop now, with the people viewing my vids.
  
  I'll keep them coming, in the meanwhile sit tight and enjoy metacafe :-).
  By computerclips 1211567752 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Remove ~~8913187~~
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- huh?
  look at the dates on the pictures, pal. A super video mapping out the history of the laptop from the bulky slow models of just 20 years ago up to the sleek models of the present day and the future. Just watch the video and enjoy.
  By Johnin the UK 1211354206 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Remove ~~6743414~~
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- First Notebook after future screen
  is a bulky briefcase. Doesn't look very futuristic
  By Burble 1211375776 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Remove ~~8598535~~
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- The Briefcase
  Yeh, something reminicent of the early 80s, however, it does like stylish in business man sense, and it is touchscreen, as long as it is superlight I wouldn't care
  By computerclips 1211375930 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Remove ~~8913187~~
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- To ComputerClips:
  I can picture that selling to businessmen, it seems that it would be a pretty desirable style, but it would not be worth Microsoft's or Apple's time to produce. I doubt it would sell well since our present day society is in love with small and light electronics. The MacBook Air certainly took the cake on recent laptop releases because of its size.
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I like the future Sony vaio.
The computers at 0:11, 0:30, and 0:55 look like calculators.
By ale123 1220475283 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Remove ~~9086115~~
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You're missing..
those tablet PCs
By lightblade 1213748124 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Remove ~~1286737~~
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GOOD 5*
good video. where can i get one of the realy flat ones in the end? where the music from?
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hmm
the new once loking good.
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work
PLEASE DONT READ THIS!!!!U WILL GET KISSED ON THE NEAREST POSSIBLE FRIDAY BY THE LOVE OF UR LIFE. 2MORROW WILL BE THE BEST DAY OF UR LIFE.HOWEVER IF U DONT POST THIS COMMENT TO ATLEAST 3 VIDEOS U WILL DIE IN 2 DAYS.NOW UV STARTED READIN THIS SO DONT STOP NOW!THIS IS SOOO SCARY.SEND THIS TO ATLEAST 5 VIDEOS IN 143 MINUTES WHEN UR DONE PRESS F6 AND UR CRUSSHES NAMEWILL APPEAR ON THE SCREEN IN BIG LETTERS THIS IS SOO SCARY CUZ IT ACTUALLY WORKS!!!!!
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omfg
laptops would rock in the future but the 1 that is a briefcase where the hell would you take it its better to take a normal briefcase oh and because of the music u lose 1 star so thats gonna take 4 stars
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why
didnt it show the mac air or that one laptop thats in a pen and its like a holagram that makes a keyboard and a screen?
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- yeah
  those two are very nice and futuristic.
  By spawndude 1212123214 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Remove ~~4314294~~
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lol
what future lol , i have the second one (the orange one)
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i love it!!!
as an information technology student, i really love it!!!
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Just Uploaded
Thanks alot guys 19,000 and just been a day, I love you metacafe viewers!. Help me make some money keep viewing and pass on the video!, i need a nice new computer!!!.

well that out the way, I've created another video, this time on "How to Use the Internet Anonymously".
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I remember...
I remember most of the old machines - all were amazing at the time compared to the desk-sized minicomputers they were replacing. i give this a 5. People complaining of blurry text need better video software (VLC?) or should adjust their monitors.

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tit
Came to mind - Took less than 20 years to from a cargo case kB computer to a envelope thin information giant.

But the 1908 Ford Model-T does same MPG as the average car today - 100 years later. :-S
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song question
can every one tell me the song name from the movie. (sry for bad engl)
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- thx
  big thx
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- song
  moby - god moving over the face of earth
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Cool
Cool video but i couldn't read half of the text. to small and blurry.
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Thanks for Presenting
Many thanks to you my friend. Very good collection.This is a path way to future.
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i give you 5 stars
but you disappointed me because the text is too blury and in some of the images it can't be understand.
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- cheers
  thanks for the 5 Stars, i apologies sincerely, i think they cropped my resolution even lower, it seems you need to hit the download button to get a better resolution of the vid.
  
  thanks again for the 5 stars, and keep watching my vids
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  sorry, but i don't use the metacafe app, so i won't download, but next time try to make the text bigger and somehow to be easy to read (like white text with black stroke) or create the video at a low resolution (like 320x240 for web)
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The future Sony Vaio looks great :x
:x
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I've still got my old Osborne...
It's in perfect working condition and nearly mint. Wonder if it worth more thatn 20 bucks? I love the old technoligy! I've collected every Atari, Pong System, Nintendo WITH the Robot (remember that?)... Good stuff. Thanks for bringing back a memory or two. Think I'll go fire up the ol' Osborne now... :)
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