2007-12-04 04:17:03 · 6 answers · asked by NEED 2 get AWAy! 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Laptops & Notebooks
Laptops are an older name for notebooks. Naming was and is based on size, hence these names. These days "notebook" is more appropriate to use.
2007-12-04 04:22:58 · answer #1 · answered by stumped wid this 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The name is the difference.
They are now called notebooks because they are lighter than the older laptops. My first laptop was a Zenith and weighed in at 14 pounds. Not including the carrying case and external modem (internal modems would be a few years away for something this small) and there was no mouse.
It ran a 286 chip with 128 K of RAM and it cost a mere $4500 dollars
The year 1987.
2007-12-04 12:26:04 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A laptop is a computer you surf the web with, watch movies, look at pict. etc...
A notebook is a compiliation of paper pages usually bound by a metal binder...
There are many differences..
One difference is that one uses electricity and the other does not. (for more differences, use a laptop and then a notebook, you will see many)
2007-12-04 13:54:44 · answer #3 · answered by John Smith 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a notebook is very light, small, size of a book, type computer. While the laptop has a keyboard of a regular computer and is portable. They both have all the funcutions of a regular size computer.
2007-12-04 12:24:36 · answer #4 · answered by elio305 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not much...some folks call it a "notebook" if you can cart it around and "write" notes on it (twist the screen around so's it lies flat on the computer, and it lies flat, like a clipboard, and maybe it's even hand-writing trained and touch-sensitive screen, like, say, a Lenovo Thinkpad X61 recently reviewed by PC Magazine)
2007-12-04 12:22:41 · answer #5 · answered by fjpoblam 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just a few years... they are just two names for the same thing. The marketing strategies changed somewhere around 1999–2000.
2007-12-04 12:24:43 · answer #6 · answered by Yer Mom 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋