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Some trivia to kick things off: did you know that Steve Wozniak only joined forces with Steve Jobs to form Apple after Wozniak’s pleas to his then employer, Hewlett Packard, to build a personal computer fell on deaf ears? This was in the late 1970s, when HP preferred to defend its lucrative calculator business. By 1980 it had changed its mind, producing its first PC, but this targeted engineers rather than the mass population.
Even in those early days, so-called luggable computers were starting to emerge. Take the ground-breaking Osborne 1, which launched back in 1981 complete with a 5in CRT display. Admittedly, this weighed 11kg and didn’t include a battery, but squint and you can draw a line between the Osborne and the Envy Move. It’s just that HP’s luggable PC happens to have a 23.8in touchscreen display, 10-core processor and a battery that keeps
