Timeline for Difference between a netbook, a notebook, and a laptop
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| Dec 4, 2019 at 10:36 | comment | added | user109256 | Post-bounty note: The "marketing driven" is a timeless answer, which could include newer lines of products we see today--Chromebook, GPD MicroPC, Raspberry Pi laptop--that do not really fit into the three categories defined by the accepted answer. These niche products are indirectly covered by this timeless answer. | |
| Dec 4, 2019 at 10:27 | history | bounty ended | CommunityBot | ||
| Jan 5, 2010 at 13:47 | comment | added | Jim C | Your are missing a category, portable workstations. There are high end laptops with decent (not spectatural) graphics, processors, memory and drives. They are used as replacements for workstations in areas like CAD. They also make decent game machines. Look at the Dell Precision series as an example. | |
| Jul 23, 2009 at 4:56 | comment | added | hanleyp | By today's standards, you are right, they weren't cheap. But 5-6 years ago, they were the cheapest laptops you could get. They were a hundred or two dollars more than a desktop. The ones I'm thinking of had low end processors (Intel Celeron or AMD Duron), terrible battery life, 17" displays, probably weighed 10-12 lbs. I'm sure there were high end versions of these as well, but my memory is the low end is what was popular. DTR's probably put pressure on the traditional laptop to come down in price. | |
| Jul 22, 2009 at 17:36 | comment | added | Andrew Scagnelli | Description #1 -- Desktop Replacements were not cheap -- if anything, they were more than an equivalent desktop due to the need for a monitor and getting everything assembled in a mobile environment. | |
| Jul 20, 2009 at 4:43 | history | answered | hanleyp | CC BY-SA 2.5 |