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What’s your first laptop?

Just bought a new laptop this week while roaming around VirraMall and also saw a number of really old ones being put on display. It reminded me of my very first laptop and it looked similar to the ones I saw.

I can’t remember the exact model of that laptop but I remember it was a 12-incher Acer notebook powered by a Cyrix 486DX4 processor with 230MB of HDD space and 8MB of EDO RAM (I later upgraded it to 16MB for Php4k+).

It was running on Windows 95 which I installed using 6 or 7 1.44″ floppy disks. I still remember trying to add Window Plus+ but it would hang because of lack of memory (was able to fix using RAM compression software).

Still trying to figure out what model it was (a family friend won it from a Pepsi contest back in 96 or 97 and we offered to swap it for a new TV).

Anyway, can you remember your very first laptop? What was it?

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Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines. He is also a technology consultant, a tech columnist with several national publications, resource speaker and mentor/advisor to several start-up companies.

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  2. Avatar for :D :D says:

    My first Laptop was bought on 2009; an eMachines D725 with Intel Pentium T4300 @ 2.1Ghz, 2Gb RAM, 320Gb HDD and Intel GMA. It still works fine. Now, I’m using Asus K55V with Intel Core i7-3610QM at 2.3Ghz with Turbo Boost up to 3.3Ghz, 8Gb RAM, 750Gb HDD and nVidia GT 610M.

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  5. Avatar for A. Hudson A. Hudson says:

    I’m still using my first laptop, an old Compaq from 1995.

  6. Avatar for IAmAKiamoyLover IAmAKiamoyLover says:

    HP G42-372TX

  7. Avatar for RaGe Einzeln RaGe Einzeln says:

    MSI VR320x

  8. Avatar for Alexei Rivera Alexei Rivera says:

    I’m late to the laptop party, so my first laptop is a Gateway P-6860FX that I got in Las Vegas in 2008. I haven’t replaced it yet, so I guess its my first and current laptop.

  9. Avatar for manong manong says:

    MACBOOK AIR… when i was in the states for vacation last year and couldn’t decide w/c affordable gadget to bring home

  10. Avatar for alfranz alfranz says:

    An Acer 4920 as an auxiliary computer for school. I am used to desktops but I resort to the laptop when my sibling uses up all the desktops. Still using it up to now. Only upgraded its RAM after 1.5 years of use.

  11. Avatar for Shrumster Shrumster says:

    Toshiba Satellite 2435-S255. Got it second-hand around 2004, been with me ever since. Suffered 2 hard drive failures (one my fault…dropped a book on the drive portion), upgrades and tweaks. It just recently broke down (for good) following the slew of Meralco power outages. Power board finally gave out I guess. Sigh.

  12. Avatar for ben ben says:

    mine was ibm issued by my boss. then i bought ECS laptop. yung walang battery ha!

    i’ve had 5 laptops changes since then.

  13. Avatar for Pusang Kulog Pusang Kulog says:

    A Lenovo IBM X21 – A 12 inch unit which I have battered for 6 years. It has a Pentium 3 (700Mhz) processor, a 128Mb RAM which I later upgraded to 384Mb, a 4Mb Dedicated ATI Video Card, 10Gb of hard disk space which I also upgraded later to 40Gb.

    It was actually a gift from the States around the year 2003. Sold it for Php5k last year.

  14. Avatar for durantula durantula says:

    my 1st laptop is the acer aspire 3600 series of 2006. Now on its 4th year and it is still up and running although medyo nawoworn out na. About time to shift to timeline. hehe.

  15. Avatar for jaz jaz says:

    a lenovo y410…the only known issue it got is with the optiarc slot drive..now the drive is not working after a year..tsk tsk

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  16. Avatar for ligrev ligrev says:

    A NEO laptop. With PDC 2.0ghz, 1gb ram, Intel GMA, 80gb HDD, Memcard reader, 4x DVD writer.

    It’s still alive btw. My Dad’s using it. Lol!

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  17. Avatar for James James says:

    mine’s IBM thinkpad with pentium 3 800mhz processor, 512mb RAM, 40GB HDD and 8MB Video Memory. I always love the Thinkpad, so sleek, compact, strong and reliable. I also love the design of the Point Stick, it has much greater control than the touch pad.

  18. Avatar for vin vin says:

    My first was a Samsung Sens P29 laptop bought almost 4 years ago sa tipidpc. It’s a 1.5(1.6?)ghz Celeron. Ayun, last year pinasok ng magnanakaw yung apartment ko, tangay yung laptop, nintendo wii, at popcorn hour a100. Funny thing is this (techy) burglar forgot to take the remote controls of both my wii and pch.

    Eniweys after a week I “upgraded” to a 2nd hand MSI core 2 duo laptop. Sana wag na maulit yung last year dahil A110 na yung pch ko and yung pinalit kong wii may katabi nang ps3 tsaka xbox360.

  19. Avatar for Eason Eason says:

    A rubbish NEO Emprivia NPV2

    Core 2 Duo 1.86Ghz, 1GM memory GMA graphics, 80GB HD

    all for 60k!!!

    So expensive!

  20. Avatar for bongski bongski says:

    a celeron-powered asus laptop colored white way back 2003. Upgraded 2 years ago to a turion powered hp dv6810 with 3 gigs of ram. Now waiting for a new asus g60jx. sweet!

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