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An ultra-mobile PC, [1] or ultra-mobile personal computer (UMPC), is a miniature version of a pen computer, a class of laptop whose specifications were launched by Microsoft and Intel in Spring 2006. Sony had already made a first attempt in this direction in 2004 with its Vaio U series , which was only sold in Asia.
Some models of laptop computers have a detachable keyboard, which allows the system to be configured as a touch-screen tablet. They are sometimes called 2-in-1 detachable laptops or tablet-laptop hybrids. [39] Mobile phones are designed to have an extended battery life and light weight, while having less functionality than larger computers.
The Compaq Portable, one of the first IBM PC compatible systems A military-type mobile computer housed in a reinforced case A portable computer with three LCD screens A portable computer with one 20.1-inch LCD screen, EATX motherboard The MIT Suitcase Computer, MIT Digital Systems Laboratory, 1975
A human computer, with microscope and calculator, 1952. It was not until the mid-20th century that the word acquired its modern definition; according to the Oxford English Dictionary, the first known use of the word computer was in a different sense, in a 1613 book called The Yong Mans Gleanings by the English writer Richard Brathwait: "I haue [] read the truest computer of Times, and the best ...
An artist's depiction of a 2000s-era desktop-style personal computer, which includes a metal case with the computing components, a display and a keyboard (mouse not shown). A personal computer, often referred to as a PC, is a computer designed for individual use. [1]
Pocket PC 2000: Rapier ARMv4, MIPS, SH-3: April 19, 2000 CE 3.0 Pocket PC 2002: Merlin ARMv4: October 4, 2001 Windows Mobile 2003: Ozone ARMv5: June 23, 2003 CE 4.x Windows Mobile 2003 SE: March 24, 2004 Windows Mobile 5.0: Magneto May 9, 2005 CE 5.0 Windows Mobile 6.0: Crossbow February 12, 2007 Windows Mobile 6.1: April 1, 2008 CE 5.2 Windows ...
The PC speaker is a simple loudspeaker built into IBM PC compatible computers. Unlike a speaker used with a sound card, the PC speaker is only meant to produce square waves to produce sounds such as beeping. Modern computers utilize a piezoelectric buzzer or a small speaker as the PC speaker.
Inspiron (/ ˈ ɪ n s p ɪr ɒ n / IN-spirr-on, formerly stylized as inspiron) is a line of consumer-oriented laptop computers, desktop computers and all-in-one computers sold by Dell. [1] The Inspiron range mainly competes against Acer 's Aspire ; Asus 's Transformer Book Flip, VivoBook and Zenbook ; HP 's Pavilion , Stream, and ENVY ; Lenovo ...