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Laptop vs Luggable - What's the difference?

laptop | luggable |

In computing terms the difference between laptop and luggable

is that laptop is a laptop computer while luggable is an early portable computer, somewhat heavier than the modern laptop.

laptop

English

(wikipedia laptop)

Alternative forms

* lap-top (slightly dated)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (computing) A laptop computer.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Revenge of the nerds , passage=Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops , sipping lattes or munching on free food.}}

    Synonyms

    * (laptop computer) laptop computer, notebook computer

    Related terms

    * desktop * palmtop

    Derived terms

    * laptronica

    luggable

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (computing) An early portable computer, somewhat heavier than the modern laptop.
  • * 1991 , Thomas F Wheeler, Professional Workstations
    • The number of pocket or hand-held computers will grow, while the number of luggables will decline.
  • * 1994 , Michel Banâtre, Peter A Lee, Hardware and Software Architectures for Fault Tolerance
    • Witness the speed with which so-called luggable systems became portables, and portables became laptops.
    English retronyms