netbookn.2
/ˈnɛtbʊk/, U.S. /ˈnɛtˌbʊk/ A small inexpensive laptop computer designed primarily to support easy (esp. wireless) internet access. Cf. notebook n. 2.Quot. 1999 refers to a subnotebook developed by Psion (which took out trademarks for the name that were later withdrawn).
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portable1933
luggable1978
notebook computer1982
lap portable1983
laptop1983
transportable1983
lap-held1984
notebook1988
mobile device1989
notebook PC1989
notepad1991
digital assistant1992
personal digital assistant1992
netbook1999
1999 Personal Computer World Oct. 230/2 If that wasn't enough there was the netBook, claimed to be the world's first truly mobile network computer, incorporating 100 per cent pure Java technology.
2008 Maximum PC May 9/3 Intel nicknamed the subnotebook computers ‘netbooks’, emphasizing their built-in wireless Internet connectivity.
2009 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 8 June b4/5 A small laptop with an Intel chip is normally called a netbook. But a netbook with a cellphone chip is called a smartbook.
2010 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 10 June f7/1 Called ‘thin and lights’ or ‘ultrathins’, the new systems are similar to netbooks..yet they pack more power than netbooks.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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