laptop computer: Quick Facts

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Facts

Also Known As	notebook computer

Photos

Silver laptop computer with a black, blank screen, viewed from the front.

Two female students sit at a table in a classroom, smiling and working together on a laptop, with books and papers spread out in front of them.

laptop from the One Laptop per Child program

Apple's MacBook Air laptop model

A laptop computer

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Topics

personal computer microcomputer PDA smartphone smartwatch netbook

Key People

Jony Ive wearing a white shirt and blue blazer, photographed outdoors in 2015 when he was Apple's chief design officer

Jony Ive

British designer and executive