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Laptop vs Subnotebook - What's the difference?

laptop | subnotebook |

In computing terms the difference between laptop and subnotebook

is that laptop is a laptop computer while subnotebook is a small, lightweight laptop computer, smaller than a notebook computer.

laptop

English

(wikipedia laptop)

Alternative forms

* lap-top (slightly dated)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (computing) A laptop computer.
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    • , 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

    subnotebook

    English

    (wikipedia subnotebook)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (computing) A small, lightweight laptop computer, smaller than a notebook computer.

    • See also

    * netbook