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

JonnieCache · on Feb 17, 2016

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

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

csixty4 · on Feb 17, 2016

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.

coldtea · on Feb 17, 2016

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".

FreeFull · on Feb 17, 2016

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

coldtea · on Feb 18, 2016

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

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