What’s your first laptop?

Abe Olandres Editor-in-chief May 14, 2010 · 1 min read

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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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166 Comments

loadex · 16 years ago

nalimutan ko exact model.. but it is an Acer laptop.. around 2007 ata.. just when the prices started to drop below 30k.

Lawrence · 16 years ago

Mine was msi cr400 core 2 duo. Which was really a bang for buck (I got it for almost 25k lng), but guess what wala pang 1 month skin ng white + flicker na lcd.. i’m hearing good comments pnmn with MSI, kaya pinili ko..ewan ko lng kung minalas lng ako ng unit! Anyway it’s already fixed, but the hassle was unforgettable!!

daddy joey · 16 years ago

any tips for those who want to buy their first laptop? :)

Web.com.ph · 16 years ago

Macintosh Powerbook 270c (circa 1993) complete with the Duo Dock set-up.

mazinger zeta · 16 years ago

Compaq armada 4120T with pentium 120 processor, 64 mb of ram, 12″ lcd.

Leo · 16 years ago

mine is an Acer Aspire 5536 which i bought in japan, comes with japanese windows vista, but i managed to change it in english

ogago · 16 years ago

sa kin ibm thinkpad nung 2000 ata bigay ng tatay ko nung college ako, 15″ tas win98 os, 800 mhz procie un lang tanda ko. may cd rom na un pero may floppy pa din.

chardsnet · 16 years ago

I never had a laptop before. But when I started to work at home, I was able to buy my very first laptop – Lenovo G450 just three months ago.

lalin · 16 years ago

after graduation from college, I thought I don’t like to sit all day on a desktop anymore so I decided to buy the cheapest laptop back in 2003. It’s an ECS laptop with Transmeta Crusoe processor. I don’t know if it still works now, I passed it to my sister when the video card stopped working after plugging in to a projector.

CarloBlogg Online 3.0 · 16 years ago

My first laptop is the Acer Travelmate 2420 bought by my Dad in the Middle East back in 2006. It was a lifesaver during my college-thesis writing,(mobility in various libraries :D). I am still using it today now that I am in Law school haha :D

Robert JA Basilio Jr. · 16 years ago

My first laptop was a used Apple PowerBook 520. The 500 series, if I’m not mistaken, was the first such laptop that introduced the trackpad.

A variant — which was introduced in Japan and codenamed the Blackbird — was used in the first Mission: Impossible movie.

zick · 16 years ago

Macbook.. with snow leopard pre installed.

Armel · 16 years ago

My very first laptop was the very first batch of macbook on Intel.

slighmd · 16 years ago

mine was a NEO, last 2006. i can’t remember the model but it had a 15.6″ screen, 2gb ddr2 ram, 1.7ghz intel centrino, 160gb hdd. it burned out (literally) after a year maybe because of toooooo much World of Warcraft, and i had to pay 22k for repairs. sold it after repairs and got a desktop instead

vik sapar · 16 years ago

a bulky IBM r52. felt like my shoulders will go off anytime when i carry it around.

fjordz · 16 years ago

mine was Compaq Model 2140us running on Windows XP Home edition.. it’s still working until now. It’s more than 7 years now.

manaka_junpei · 16 years ago

nakagamit na ako noon nang laptop, sa kapatid ko, yung Toshiba Satellite notebook na Windows ME, Pentium 3 palang at dial-up ang internet connection, pero may built-in Ethernet port na, kaya lang nasira ang TFT LCD dahil sa moisture pero buo pa rin, ngayon sira na talaga, malamang battery overcharge o sira na ang HDD, 2nd pero sa kapatid ko rin, yung Fujitsu na bili sa Saudi kasi mura ang laptop, naka-Windows 7 Ultimate 32bit kaya lang walang AERO dahil sa Video memory nito, 3rd is yung netbook nang sister ko, puwede nang mag-Windows 7 Ultimate 32bit din dahil sa upgraded specs niya, 4th yung netbook nang kapatid ko, kaya lang LINUX at parang walang kwentang gamitin dahil Linux yan, 5th yung sa erpat ko galing U.S., Thanksgiving sale kasi doon, ACER Emachines yan at Windows 7 Home Premium 32bit

Jam. · 16 years ago

Mine was Dell Inspiron 2500. I don’t remember the full specs but it has Pentium III and 256 ram inside :)

abeolandres · 16 years ago

Sharing-moment. What was your very first laptop? http://www.yugatech.com/blog/personal-co…

veggiecircle · 16 years ago

@abeolandres Asus

czarinamaye · 16 years ago

@abeolandres hp pavilion dv2000. O_o man I need an upgrade. Haha.

mavenz · 16 years ago

@abeolandres mine’s Toshiba Satellite 4000 cds. too bulky! haha http://translate.google.com.ph/translate…

Kimwell · 16 years ago

Due to financial constraints, I had my first laptop just last year and I am still using (and loving) it. Its a Compaq CQ40 310 AU.

senses · 16 years ago

My first laptop? It’s the Lenovo Y410 T550, which I bought two years ago. Unfortunately, this is still the laptop I am using now. I wasn’t able to upgrade yet. But it works perfectly fine. ^_^

Nokia 5800 Blog · 16 years ago

My first laptop was IBM R-Series 2682 RA5 with Intel Pentium-4, 256MB RAM, 60 GB Hard disk, bluetooth, webcam and card reader.

This laptop is still with me and is working gr8!

JayL · 16 years ago

mine was just last last year a NEO notebook, tapos now I mostly used this HP Mini pero desktop PC pa rin ang pinaka important sakin :)

our first PC was a refurbished Compaq desktop, pentium 3 pa yun. Nung sikat pa yung Friendster nun :P

carmz · 16 years ago

Mine was Asus Eee pc 4g..:)

I am currently using Compaq Presario CQ40… I wish to own a Mac lappy… :(

BrianB · 16 years ago

How much was the Acer. Mahal ng laptop five years ago. I’m lucky my secondhand dell still works.

zero_01 · 16 years ago

Toshiba Satellite 2.4ghz celeron, 40gb, 512ram, windows xp, 15”

matfrancisco · 16 years ago

my first laptop was a compaq armada. it has p3 processor, its os was windows 98 and a 30 gb of HD.
until now it is still usable. i installed XP Pro on it.

IC DeaDPiPoL · 16 years ago

never bought one for me yet, but chose a Compaq C793 for my mom (worse mistake of mine). A relative of mine handed me his old laptop which I’m currently using

Gateway 4012GZ
Intel Celeron 1.5Ghz
512mb RAM

replaced the encrypted HDD(he forgot the password) with an external Seagate 160gb IDE HDD attached via USB-IDE cable powered by a 350watt atx psu. Installed Linux Mint since XP~Windows7 refuse to be installed on removable media.

As of now using that for torrents, surfing, and watching videos (can watch 480p, 720p videos, anything in excess stutters & fails).

Cartman · 16 years ago

Mine was running on XP already. hehe. Acer Aspire 14″ laptop.

Tey Aragon · 16 years ago

A 12-in Apple iBook G4 with a teeny tiny 40GB hard disk. It’s been through hell and back and now I barely use it, but it’s still as awesome as the day I bought it :-)

manong · 16 years ago

“Just bought a new laptop this week while roaming around VirraMall”

ang yabang naman… parang bumili lang ng yosi ah! sana ako ganito naman…

“Just bought a new sportscar this week while roaming around Divisoria…”

yung tipong di man lang plinano o nag-canvass, wala lang trip-trip lang!

bri · 16 years ago

my first lapdance was when i was in highschool.. sagot ng barkada ko.. ok naman yung chicks..

oops, laptop pala..

asus with turion 64 processor, dedicated vid card, 2 gig ram.. un lang kaya ng budget that time e (around 2008 cguro)

virtualstefan13 · 16 years ago

I had a Prestigio 109cb. Powered by Via C3 processor with a clock speed of 1.2ghz. It had 256 mb of RAM. Then it was devastated by a storm named FRANK.

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=36733&id=1339944018&l=6010693a9e

jojo · 16 years ago

Mine was toshiba satellite L20, Pentium M with 512MB RAM which i upgraded to 2GB. 15 inches LCD, courtesy of my sister,around April 2005.

Pinoy Ideas · 16 years ago

My first laptop was Alienware Pentium M. I’m still using it until now.

bursky · 16 years ago

HP 500 and it’s still alive. :D pero mostly watching movies with it now, di na workhorse.

myke · 16 years ago

first laptop bought was acer with 2.0Ghz AMD turion which I purchased in dec 2006

roiji · 16 years ago

my very own laptop was the asus EEEPC 701..
it’s still alive today after playing grand chase and DOTA everyday.. lol

asus is really ‘rock solid and heart touching’ hahaha

Numlock · 16 years ago

Hi, my very first laptop is what I’m using right now. I bought it 3 1/2 years ago and it’s still useful even in gaming. It is an ECS laptop that has Pentium M 1.6ghz, 1gb ram and 128mb dedicated video card.

The only thing that shows it’s age is the backspace button seems harder to use ;)

clifford · 16 years ago

my first laptop is my MSI EX401 which I bought last year……..the reason that I only have one laptop is that I used to be a DESKTOP PC person, but then things change, hence this laptop…..I still own a desktop PC though….

Kamesenin Butan · 16 years ago

I’ve been working in the computer since 2000, but I couldn’t afford laptop yet until 2005, my first laptop Sony VAIO Pentium Centrino with 4gigs memory.

jonathan · 16 years ago

Toshiba Tecra

squishy · 16 years ago

My first laptop was a Compaq CQ410au. Had the memory upgraded to 3gigs, and operated Windows Vista. After a while, swapped it with a friend for a 13″ MacBook white, with 2gigs of RAM.

crosstrainer · 16 years ago

mine was an AST laptop… can’t remember the specs, but i do recall it had a whopping 25Mhz processor.

saw a photo of it online: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3385/3249023904_b8020146e6.jpg

Paolo · 16 years ago

But my first pc box was a 486-SX running on DOS/Win 3.11 with 4MB of RAM woot!

Paolo · 16 years ago

Mine was an Acer Aspire 5630 bought in 2007 which is still alive and kickin!!

j · 16 years ago

Mine was a toshiba satellite with windows 98 se. lol

Jonathan Lee · 16 years ago

I still remember my first laptop. It was a toshiba satelite. Forgot the exact model. But it has a swapable cdrom or floppy drive. Pentium 1 and it comes with windows 95. I still remember I had it’s windows reinstalled by someone else because I dont know how to do it during that time. And that guy installed windows 98. I payed him 2,000 to do that. hehe

Boo · 16 years ago

Mine was an acer 508dx, circa 2001.

yizhan · 16 years ago

i still remember the first laptop that i bought from my first salary in PLDT beside the siemens runing on windows 3.1 that they issued to me… it was from elite group and was powered by 999mhz transmeta crusoe processor. I bought it for 35K way back 2004