It makes for an interesting trip down one of those dead-end side roads in computing history. Several devices made it to market, among them one from IBM which has taken a look at. In the late 1990s manufacturers saw a way out of this in Microsoft’s Windows CE, which would run on modest hardware without drinking power. Powerful laptops were the size of paving slabs and had battery lives measured in minutes, while anything small usually had disappointing performance or yet again a minuscule power budget. It’s easy to forget then that there was a time when from those three features the laptop user could usually expect only one of them in their device. We’re used to our laptop computers here in 2022 being ultra-portable, super-powerful, and with impressively long battery lives.
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