{"id":45170,"date":"2014-09-14T11:54:54","date_gmt":"2014-09-14T17:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/09\/14\/what-a-difference-33-years-makes-in-laptops-at-least.html"},"modified":"2014-09-15T08:32:54","modified_gmt":"2014-09-15T14:32:54","slug":"what-a-difference-33-years-makes-in-laptops-at-least","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/09\/14\/what-a-difference-33-years-makes-in-laptops-at-least.html","title":{"rendered":"What a difference 33 years makes (in laptops, at least)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Though I don&#39;t think I would have tried to rest the Osborne 1 on my lap.<\/p>\n<p>(h\/t <span class=\"proflinkWrapper\"><span class=\"proflinkPrefix\">+<\/span><a class=\"proflink\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/106728288712777899597\" oid=\"106728288712777899597\">Paula Jones<\/a><\/span>)<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"sm2wpreshared\">Originally shared by <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930'>+Brad Acker<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><b>Portable computer comparison -1st to recent (1981-2014)<\/b><br \/>Yesterday, I posted about the 1983 bankruptcy of the company that made the first successful portable computer, the Osborne 1. I thought it might be fascinating to do a &ldquo;quick and dirty&rdquo; spec comparison between the Osborne 1 and today&#39;s Apple MacBook Pro.<\/p>\n<p>Sources:<br \/>&bull;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.virginia.edu\/brochure\/museum\/osspecs.html\">http:\/\/www.cs.virginia.edu\/brochure\/museum\/osspecs.html<\/a><br \/>&bull;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Osborne_1\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Osborne_1<\/a><br \/>&bull;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/macbook-pro\/specs-retina\/\">https:\/\/www.apple.com\/macbook-pro\/specs-retina\/<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style='text-align:center'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/102733870103786741145\/albums\/6058897004987836737\/6058897011127373490'><img src='https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/-jd9NmV66XdE\/VBWGuu7sTrI\/AAAAAAAAOrY\/S10PLfZ0sAs\/33%2BLaptop%2Bdifferences.png?imgmax=660' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style='text-align:center'>\n<a href='' style='width:50px;height:50px;display:inline-block;background-size:cover;background-image:url();'><\/a>\u00a0\n<\/div>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/dRTosGveWTm'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though I don&#39;t think I would have tried to rest the Osborne 1 on my lap. (h\/t +Paula Jones) Originally shared by +Brad Acker: Portable computer comparison -1st to recent (1981-2014)Yesterday, I posted about the 1983 bankruptcy of the company that made the first successful portable computer, the Osborne 1. I thought it might be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/09\/14\/what-a-difference-33-years-makes-in-laptops-at-least.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What a difference 33 years makes (in laptops, at least)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45171,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,20,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-hi-tech","category-history"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/33+Laptop+differences.pngimgmax=660.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1034,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2001\/10\/23\/but_have_you_ev.html","url_meta":{"origin":45170,"position":0},"title":"But have you ever seen us in the same room at the same time?","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 23-Oct-01 6:35am","format":false,"excerpt":"But have you ever seen us in the same room at the same time? 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