- Notebook computers, aka Laptop computers, are portable and functional, and popular with people who need to travel with a full-featured computer.
- Notebooks accept media or network connections to move data easily from one computer to another.
- Notebooks do not offer the full expandability for supporting peripherals as a personal computer but, more and more peripherals are providing connectivity to laptops through innovations in bus technologies.
- These are to be distinguished from the so-called netbooks with limited power and features positioned somewhere between notebooks and today's still smaller personal devices such as tablets and smartphones.