Custom Notebook Design

Displays reached VGA resolution by 1988 (Compaq SLT/286), and color screens started becoming a common upgrade in 1991 with increases in resolution and screen size occurring frequently until the introduction of 17"-screen laptops in 2003. Hard drives started to be used in portables, encouraged by the introduction of 3.5" drives in the late 1980s, and became common in laptops starting with the introduction of 2.5" and smaller drives around 1990; capacities have typically lagged behind physically larger desktop drives. Optical storage, read-only CD-ROM followed by writeable CD and later read-only or writeable DVD and Blu-Ray, became common in laptops soon in the 2000s.
October 2010: Convergence in notebook/laptop functionality has become common recently. A notebook with a surround audio subsystem, whether 5.1 or 7.1, is already commonplace. 3D is also becoming a must on entertainment leading notebook. They come from Acer, Asus, HP, Lenovo and Toshiba. Whereas HP mini 210 has been provided with GPS.