Dvorak's best of the worst laptops

David Pescovitz 7:17 am Wed Aug 4, 2004

Gavilan In his PC Magazine column this week, former BB guestblogger John Dvorak provides a bottom ten list of laptops lost to history:

1. The Gavilan (1983). Actually this was an amazing attempt at leapfrogging everyone. Unfortunately, the developers leapfrogged over a cliff. This (despite what Apple mavens believe) was actually the machine that first employed the mousepad, then called a touchpad. The company soaked up a then-whopping $30 million in venture capital and essentially failed right out of the gate. Nobody wanted the machine, and the rationale for the touchpad was always questionable. The pad was poorly located, above the keys. Originally known as the Cosmos Computer, it ran the GOS operating system as well as MS-DOS. Seen by many as the first true laptop, the machine is highly collectible. It's a machine that could also easily appear on the ten-best list.

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