Topic summary
Notebook computers
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Notebook computer.
History
In direct response to Compaq, both Apple and IBM, top players in the computer industry, made their hotly anticipated entries in the notebook market in 1991 and 1992, respectively, with the PowerBook and the PS/2 Note (a predecessor to the ThinkPad). Under the aegis of the Industrial Technology Research Institute, dozens of Taiwanese computer manufacturers formed a consortium to mass-produce notebook computers starting in 1991. These Taiwanese notebook computers soon flooded the West, bringing the cost of notebooks down on the low end of the market.