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Top Ten List: Classic Laptops [最新的十篇文章：典型的膝上輕便電腦]
Once in a while it's good to remember the computer classics, in order to see how far we've come in making these devices more fun and more useful. I'm going to illustrate the utility of this by citing what I believe are some of the great products of yesterday. Readers are invited to toss in other suggestions or weigh in with their own top 10 lists.
有時候，去記得舊規格的電腦是好的，為了能去看見這些設備在市場上
I'll begin with a list of what I believe to be the top 10 laptop or notebook computers. I am specifically referring to portable, battery-operated laptop/notebook computers. These criteria call for leaving out the famous GriD Computer of the early 1980s and various plug-in Toshiba machines, although those did influence future designs:
我將開始描述我認為能成為前十名膝上型電腦的名單
The Top 10 Classic Laptops (排名前十名的膝上型電腦)
10. TRS-80 Model 100 (1983). This machine would be higher on the list if future computers had emulated its shape, but its influence on the market was unmistakable. It was probably the first machine to be used widely by professional writers. This was a small single-piece unit with an eight-line monochrome LCD. It was derived from the NEC-8201, which was not seriously marketed in the USA.
第10名。1983年代的TRS-80 Model 100，
如果未來的機型努力趕上它的外型，則此機型的排名可能更後面
在市場上，它的影響是明顯的，它可能是第1台擁有手寫辨識功能的機
而且擁有8行黑白顯示的LCD，卻有相當輕巧的外型
它的設計理念源自於在美國銷售狀況不佳的NEC-820機型
9. Toshiba T-1000 (1987). Listed for its popularity and price. A well-made monochrome unit that pushed in the lightweight ( 3.5kg) direction.
第9名。1987年代的Toshiba T-1000，
上榜的主要原因是因為他的價格及市場反應相當熱烈、普及
此機型，具備一個相當高品質的黑白顯示器，及主流的輕巧的機身(3.5kg)
8. Zenith laptops. By today's standards, these laptops were heavy clunkers, but in their day they were stylish and trendy. They set the stage for today's clamshell designs. These machines dominated the scene in the late 1980s.
第8名。最好的膝上型電腦，過去的膝上型電腦在今日而言
7. The first HP laptop (1984). This $3,000 unit was one of the most ambitious offerings ever produced by HP. Ahead of its time in every way, it also had Lotus 1-2-3 bundled into the ROM on the machine, making it very fast to work with. Curiously, this laptop/portable unit is no longer listed on HP's corporate-history timeline. One also has to note the HP-75 series (1982), which others consider as the first HP laptops.
第7名。1984年代，HP生產第一台膝上型電腦
6. IBM 5140 Convertible (1986). Selling for a reasonable $1,975, this machine triggered more interest in lightweight machines only because it was from IBM. In fact, it was not a true laptop. It was something of a clunker, especially when docked with its printer.
第6名。1986年代的IBM 5140 Convertible，美金$1,975,的合理價位
它並非一台真正的膝上型電腦，特別是它接上印表機的時候
5. Poquet (1991-1992). The first real example of a super-small full-featured computer, an amazing unit ahead of its time. Atari followed with its Portfolio. This shape never got much further than those two models, which have evolved into the Palm and other more modern machines.
第5名。1991-1992年代的Poquet。
第一台真正超小、功能齊備的電腦，這個迷人的小東西在當時
4. Toshiba Porteges. For a number of years Toshiba dominated the laptop arena with a line of ambitious lightweight units called Porteges. This line became so important that Toshiba continues the brand to this day.
第5名。Toshiba Porteges。多年來Toshiba籍著Porteges產品
3. IBM ThinkPads (1992-present). I'm grouping these together as one, since nearly every one since the original was a classic. Only the odd units with a "butterfly" keyboard were dubious. Nearly all the rest were huge successes that catapulted IBM to the top in laptop design and popularity.
第3名。1992年發表的IBM ThinkPads，
我本身也是此機型的愛用者之一，直到今天，每個人都還使用IBM的
IBM ThinkPads依然成功的帶領IBM在膝上型電腦市場的建構
2. Texas Instruments LT286/CompuAdd Companion (circa 1990). The first modern superlightweight machines. I consider them to be among the most important computers ever built, as they initiated the true ultra-lightweight movement in an era where people were demanding that floppy-disk drives be in the machine. These were hard-disk notebook-style machines before anyone had imagined that this would be the permanent direction of the future. Fabulous for their era.
第2名，大約在1990年代的美國德州儀器發表的LT286
這個先進的超輕巧機型，它內建現在使用的極輕巧磁碟機和硬碟機
1. The NEC Ultralite (1989). This is the classic that set the stage for everything that came after. The original Ultralite still has features that we'll probably see again someday, such as silicon-based mass storage rather than a hard disk. This was probably the classiest machine you could use in its day. It remains, at least in my thinking, the machine that forever changed portable computing.
第1名。1989年代的NEC Ultralite。
這款機型，成為後來任何產品的典型，這款 Ultralite 有些特點，在未來我們仍然可以看見，像是以大量矽基儲存體取代硬碟
我認為這款機型，將會永久改變可攜式計算機
What has consistently interested me until this day was the length of time that it took to finally get these machines right. All of today's laptops owe a debt to these classics.
一直以來，讓我感興趣的就是時間，因為時間會讓機器不斷的演化
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