Laptops! Everything you need to know

Laptops are a great thing to have, they are a portable computer small enough to use in your lap and they were invented in 1981 by Adam Osborne. It was named the Osborne 1. There are many brands of laptops but the main ones are Mac and the Dell. Laptops have changed very much sense 1981. The very first laptop looked a little like the picture below.

Over the course of the years the laptops have gotten much smaller and have more memory. Some new cool features of the laptops are:

• Touchscreen
• The outside are printed or colored
• You can take the monitor off and use as an "ipad"
• You can hook your phone up to it
• You can take pictures or videos on your laptop
• They are very small and portable
• Wireless internet

Laptops are a little pricy ranging from $400 to $1200. But if you have a laptop you can take it anywhere you want. The average laptop is 8-10 inches and weighs 2-5 lbs.
Some brands of laptops are:

• Acer
• Apple
• ASUS
• Dell
• Fujitsu
• Gateway
• HP
• Lenovo
• MSI
• Samsung
• Sony
• Toshiba