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Originally Posted by hal2814
I've seen plenty of people define the difference between laptop and notebook yet have never seen the same definition twice. IMHO, they're interchangeable terms these days and any differentiation the two once held were marketspeak to begin with.
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As ardeegee notes upthread, it's about size. Laptop: lap-sized. Notebook: notebook-sized (in the U.S., that's about 8.5" x 11"). All the other definitions stem from this size delineation. For instance, notebooks usually don't have a cd drive, but it's because the size prohibits it. The keyboards are not usually full-sized on notebooks, again because the size prohibits it.