Editing Portable computer (section)

==Modern portables==
[[Freelance journalist]] David Kline wrote in 1983 that portable computers like his Osborne 1 had "radically transformed my work [and] begun to radically reshape the entire field of journalism", but predicted that such luggables ("Like [[Neanderthal man]] ... a species without a future") would be replaced by laptops.<ref name="kline19830815">{{Cite magazine |last=Kline |first=David |date=1983-08-15 |title=Portables revolutionize free-lance journalism |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ui8EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA32 |access-date=2025-04-27 |magazine=InfoWorld |pages=32–35 |volume=5 |issue=33}}</ref> In today's world of laptops, smart phones, and tablets, portable computers have evolved and are now mostly used for industrial, commercial or military applications.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Liu|first=Zhiye|date=2020-08-06|title=Take This Portable Threadripper 3990X Workstation Wherever You Go|url=https://www.tomshardware.com/news/take-this-portable-threadripper-3990x-workstation-wherever-you-go|access-date=2021-11-01|website=Tom's Hardware|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Faulkner|first=Cameron|date=2021-02-08|title=This laptop has seven times the average number of screens|url=https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/8/22273056/expanscape-aurora-7-seven-screen-laptop|access-date=2021-11-01|website=The Verge|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Shilov|first=Anton|date=2021-02-19|title=Seven-Screen Aurora A7 Laptop Costs Up to $20,000|url=https://www.tomshardware.com/news/expanscape-aurora-multi-screen-laptops-prices|access-date=2021-11-01|website=Tom's Hardware|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Scs|url=https://www.theportablepc.com/}}</ref>