I googled it incase i am missing something but all i got was this

Laptots were African colonial troops in the service of France between 1750 and the early ... Senegalese laptots in Central Africa with French officer, 1890

Its from wikki so its probably wrong

If so I think it's a pretty clever name and shame all you haters.

Exactly right... I'll almost always trade speed for battery life. How fast does it have to be, anyway? If you can decompress and display a film in real time, that's all that's needed for the majority of tiny portables.

AC1> "Give me lower and lower and lower power requirements over faster and faster and faster chips any time."

I'd settle for something that doesn't run so hot for my next choice (not surprised, or complaining, honest - my EeePC[701] has already proven useful at work when I'd only brought it in to keep myself amused on the train). This sounds promising.

[@Ed: WTF indeed. Did you not think to follow the search results that led back to El Reg for an appropriate explanation??!]

Or is that a Mac?

anyway, it's better than "Small Cheap Computers" which is a crap name and kinda too vague as well, a desktop could be "small" and "cheap"?

here's a leedle collection of (mostly reg!) stories about the little bloighters!

cheers,

bill ;)

http://www.eupeople.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=487

Lapslop = for manufacturers who throw any old hardware in.

Lapflop = over priced, over hyped, under powered.

Lapjot = so underpowered you can only use notepad.

Lapyacht = weather proofed laptop.

.........Oh the English language....ain't it fun!

sez macboi

So does anyone think Intel hasn't really bumped performance over the last year but is simply inundating the market with so many chips people will think, "They must be designing better stuff then AMD, in the last 6 months they've released 3 generations of CPUs!"

slaptop, the mobile PC that doubles as a personal defence system

I want a minilaptop for X-mass please.

Secure Laptop... (is there such a thing?)