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Very competitive pricing and despite free delivery, laptop came next day by DPD Couriers who contacted me with a 1 hour time slot for delivery. Arrived bang on time!

Thank you and would definetely purchase again.

Laptops are nothing but portable computers & also can be said as Notebooks computers. But it's not only the laptops, we also have to consider about the bags you are using to store it. Since, today care about laptop, is an important issue. I have laptop of brand Lenovo, one the best brand in notebooks, & Laptop bag of Samsonite, one the best brand in travel bags accessories.

We have bought 3 refurbished laptops for our charity in the last 2 years. All have been good brands, well cleaned up and in good order, for prices around £150!

My only grumble is that you spend time working out what you need, go on their very good site and choose it, and they ring to say that one's sold and can they give you something different. It's always higher spec and a bit of extra, but it's happened every time. If I'd known it was a tombola I'd have started with a different attitude.

No other problems, delivery not fast but adequate, value really good.

As the personal computer became feasible in the 1970s, the idea of a portable personal computer followed. A "personal, portable information manipulator" was imagined by Alan Kay at Xerox PARC in 1968,and described in his 1972 paper as the "Dynabook".

The IBM Special Computer APL Machine Portable, was demonstrated in 1973. This prototype was based on the IBM PALM processor (Put All Logic In Microcode or 128 bit).

The IBM 5100, the first commercially available portable computer, appeared in September 1975, and was based on the SCAMP prototype.

As 8-bit CPU machines became widely accepted, the number of portables increased rapidly. The Osborne 1, released in 1981, used the Zilog Z80 and weighed 23.6 pounds (10.7 kg). It had no battery, a 5 in (13 cm) CRT screen, and dual 5.25 in (13.3 cm) single-density floppy drives. In the same year the first laptop-sized portable computer, the Epson HX-20, was announced.The Epson had a LCD screen, a rechargeable battery, and a calculator-size printer in a 1.6 kg (3.5 lb) chassis. Both Tandy/RadioShack and also produced portable computers of varying designs during this period.

The first laptops using the flip form factor appeared in the early 1980s. The Dulmont Magnum was released in Australia in 1981–82, but was not marketed internationally until 1984–85. The US$8,150 (US$19,630 today) GRiD Compass 1100, released in 1982, was used at NASA and by the military among others. The Gavilan SC, released in 1983, was the first computer described as a "laptop" by its manufacturer.From 1983 onward, several new input techniques were developed and included in laptops, including the touchpad (Gavilan SC, 1983), the pointing stick (IBM ThinkPad 700, 1992) and handwriting recognition (Linus Write-Top,1987). Some CPUs, such as the 1990 Intel i386SL, were designed to use minimum power to increase battery life of portable computers, and were supported by dynamic power management features such as Intel SpeedStep and AMD PowerNow!in some designs.

Displays reached VGA resolution by 1988 (Compaq SLT/286), and colour screens started becoming a common upgrade in 1991 with increases in resolution and screen size occurring frequently until the introduction of 17"-screen laptops in 2003. Hard drives started to be used in portables, encouraged by the introduction of 3.5" drives in the late 1980s, and became common in laptops starting with the introduction of 2.5" and smaller drives around 1990; capacities have typically lagged behind physically larger desktop drives. Optical storage, read-only CD-ROM followed by writeable CD and later read-only or writeable DVD and Blu-ray, became common in laptops soon in the 2000s.

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