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luggable

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A portable computer that weighs more than you want it to. This was said of many of the first portables such as Compaq's famous, first machine that weighed 30 pounds, but catapulted the company to prosperity. Today, any laptop that weighs more than 10 pounds can be called a "luggable."



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At this point, they are more luggable than wearable," Worzel notes.
In addition, VDC also has two other new studies titled: "The World Market for Ruggedized Notebook, Luggable, and Lunchbox Portable PCs"; and, "Trends in Industrial PC Software: Operating Systems, Programming Languages, and Applications Software.
My next portable tool was that marvelous Toshiba 1200 luggable laptop -- eleven or twelve pounds, 286-MHz with 16 MB of RAM and a 60-MB hard disk.
 
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