We Need a Better PC

Re:We Need a Better PC by jtreminio on Wednesday February 17, 2016 @09:41AM (#11118091)

> and we complain for them being uncomfortamble to have on our bare laps...

"lap"tops.

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Re:We Need a Better PC by JonnieCache on Wednesday February 17, 2016 @09:58AM (#11118227)

Isn't that why they started marketing them as "notebooks"?

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/11/22/man_burns_penis_with...

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Re:We Need a Better PC by csixty4 on Wednesday February 17, 2016 @04:10PM (#11121436)

Heat, definitely. Also, that was the time you started seeing 17"+ notebooks on the high end. One of my wife's friends bought a 20" "laptop" for her electrical engineering work. It looked comical on her lap, but was awesome for bringing work home on.

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Re:We Need a Better PC by coldtea on Wednesday February 17, 2016 @10:34AM (#11118483)

People also wear "wifebeaters" but we don't expect them to beat their wives in them.

Also "laptop" is an american term. The rest of the world calls them something closer to "portable".

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Re:We Need a Better PC by FreeFull on Wednesday February 17, 2016 @12:56PM (#11119728)

"laptop" is what they're called in Polish too

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Re:We Need a Better PC by coldtea on Thursday February 18, 2016 @05:56AM (#11124950)

Only if you mean, "they sometimes use the american term".

Because otherwise the polish term is "komputer przenośny" (portable, movable, etc computer).

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