The world's first commercial laptop—though that is certainly stretching the term—was the Osborne 1. When released in 1981, it cost $1,795, weighed 10.7kg (23.5lbs), and ran an operating system called CP/M. The 1983 Compaq Portable, which ran MS-DOS, was even larger (13kg) and cost $3,590. Neither had a battery, though an aftermarket battery for the Osborne 1 lasted an hour.
At the time, neither of these computers were actually called "laptops"; they were portables that, in a pinch, could be lugged around. Famously, the Osborne 1 was advertised as being the first computer to fit under an airplane seat. Both the Osborne 1 and Compaq Portable were massively successful, raking in millions of dollars from users who realised that portable computing was about to alter the fabric of society and its ways of doing business forever.
We've come a long way since then.
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