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Why do people still use the term “lap-top” for mini portable computers?

The “lap-top” computer has not been manufactured for a couple decades, yet people still call the Electronic Notebook or “notebook” mini portable computer a “lap top”. Why do people use such baby talk when they do not call a car a “Model T” any more?

The “lap-top” computer was the size of a brief case, was very heavy and had old 1980s technology. It was famous for its high heat, some even setting card tables on fire and burning the legs of its users. The interim version that replaced the lap-top in the early 1990s never had a name, but the Electronic Notebook that replaced both in the mid-to-late 1990s was always and to this day is called an Electronic Notebook or simply, “notebook”. The lap-top computer’s lifespan was only about 7 to 10 years, so there are none around which function, and I have not seen a lap-top since 1997!

This is as bad as people calling the number zero “oh”; if you use a voice dialer to Washington D.C. saying “area code two-oh-two”, that is really 2-6-2!

Actually “laptop” computers ARE still made.

The things the size of a briefcase were “portables”
Slightly smaller is “laptop” such as the XPS model and other “high end, power portable PCs”
Notebooks are the thinner, smaller screened models, generally with less “oomph” and more portability, true “mobile use” machines, while laptops are designed to be used “on a table in multiple locations”

As for saying “oh” for “zero” it’s actually perfectly correct to say” oh” and how you equate that to a 6 I don’t know. Bear in mind as an American you use a mangled version of English (Look up the pronunciation of “Aluminium” in the oxford english dictionary see how wrong you all get it) Let me see you find an Army seargeant major that shouts at his troops to get up tomorrow ot “Zero Five hunred hours” it’s “Oh Five hundred”

READ adverts, sellers still SELL laptops wso it’s quite correct to say people use them.

( Rant mode off )

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