A laptop is a personal computer designed to be operated while being transported, either by hand or while riding on some other form of transportation. Modern laptops are not only useful for work purposes but also provide entertainment through web browsing online games and other multimedia applications. Laptops are very compact, weighing under six pounds in weight, which makes it easy to transport them.
Laptops have become increasingly popular since the 1990s, but they are really just undergoing another iteration of the universal trend towards small computers with larger screens relative to their size that started with desktop computers during the 1980s.