The Epson HX-20 was the first laptop to be sold widely to public. That was when the laptop market started. Today there are thousands of laptops of different brands, out of which I have select 22 which are the greatest . Before you see the list, view the video below to see how would your life be, without laptops!

Of course the first greatest laptop is the laptop that started the whole story

1983:

Epson HX-20

Display: 120 × 32-pixel LCD

16 Kb RAM

Weight: 1.6 kg

Battery Life: 50 hours

Colors: Silver, Cream

1984:

GRiD Compass

8088 microprocessor

Gavilan operating system (also ran MS-DOS)

320×200 monochrome ELD screen

RAM 64 Kb – 128 KB

Touchpad mouse

4 kg

1990:

Compaq SLT/286

286 Processor

VGA graphics

1.44 floppy drive

14lbs.

1992:

Macintosh PowerBook 100

16 MHz 68HC000 processor

9.0″ monochrome passive-matrix display

RAM: 4 MB

20 MB – 80 MB HDD

1993:

IBM ThinkPad 700

RAM: 16 MB

1998:

Apple PowerBook G3

Processor: G3, 250MHz

HDD: 5GB

RAM: 32 MB – 160 MB

7.5 ibs.

2004:

Dell Latitude X1

Intel Pentium M processor 733 (1.1GHz ULV)

12.1-inch WXGA (1280 x 768)

256MB to 1.28GB of DDR2 400MHz shared SDRAM

30GB or 60GB hard drives

2006:

Acer Ferrari 5005-5832

AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-60

RAM: 2-4 GB 667MHz

HDD: 160GB

1680×1050, 15.4″ TFT

ATI Radeon 1150, 256 MB

Integrated 1.3 Megapixel

Battery: 3.5 hour(s)

Weight: 6.6 lbs

Best Feature: STYLE

2007:

Dell Vostro 1700

Intel Core 2 Duo T7100

2GB RAM

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT 256

17.1″, 1440×900 pixels

3.5kg

2008:

Acer Aspire Gemstone blue (6920G)

Intel Core 2 Duo T8100 2.1 GHz

4096 MB, DDR2, 667MHz

NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GS

16.4, 1366×768 TFT

320 GB – 320GB (5400rpm)

Realtek ALC889

3.28 kg

2009:

Lenovo IdeaPad Y730

Intel® Core™ 2 Duo Processor P8600 ( 2.40GHz 1066MHz 3MB )

ATI Mobility Radeon 3650 512MB

4 GB DDR3 SDRAM 1066MHz

320GB HDD 5400 rpm

17.0 ” WXGA+ TFT, 1440×900

2010:

Asus G60

Processor: Core 2 Quad

16″ (1,920 x 1,080)

GeForce GTX 260M graphics card (1GB of GDDR3 RAM)

4GB of DDR3 RAM

320 GB – 1 TB SSD

Blu-ray

2-megapixel webcam

2013:

Thinner and lighter! that’s where the manufacturers are moving. VAIO has always been pioneer to produce stylish and cool laptops, they are planning to produce this laptop soon, which is a concept for now

2015:

Known as D-roll, believe to grab some future market due to its unique design and ultra portability. The complete laptop is in a tube.

2017:

HP Nobag, laptop in a tube, a wonderful design concept.

2019:

The Compenion is a concept laptop designed by Felix Schmidberger. The concept is much like the Microsoft Surface Computer, but this one would be portable and light weight.

2020:

The laptop is just 4-5 pens in your hand, technology originally from Japan. It’s under research and development but I hope that in year 2020 we would have a total replacement of old style laptops with this or something similar

If you want to add to the list, please comment below with the link to your favorite laptop.