Re:Whatever happened to the laptop computer? (1985)
by coldtea on Thursday January 14, 2016 @02:49AM
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>Games and word processing seem like they would be the best application. But there were specialized consoles and word processing machines at the time that were cheaper and better for those tasks.
No, there weren't. Compared to Amiga and Atari, there were no competitive home game consoles around (until around 1989 or so at least).
And of course "word processing machines" were not better in any way. Professional writers (writers, journalists, people writing scientific papers, scriptwriters, etc) were buying PCs for word processing, not any dedicated "word processing machines" (which were just electric typewriters with an LCD and some crude software).
No, there weren't. Compared to Amiga and Atari, there were no competitive home game consoles around (until around 1989 or so at least).
And of course "word processing machines" were not better in any way. Professional writers (writers, journalists, people writing scientific papers, scriptwriters, etc) were buying PCs for word processing, not any dedicated "word processing machines" (which were just electric typewriters with an LCD and some crude software).