That’s probably not much more than how many I have. I’m primarily a Mac collector, so it felt weird reaching the point where I had all the old Mac laptops in my collection, the only ones missing were the super rare and expensive ones like the 2400 and the Macintosh Portable.

I tried pivoting to PCs but that’s basically a black hole that I would never escape from, each manufacturer had ten times as many laptops as Apple at any given time and even just sifting through them to figure out which ones would be interesting to collect would be a full time job. And of course the few that I did try to seek out are basically unobtanium because they were weird quirky models that didn’t sell and unlike Macs nobody thought to save them so they were thrown out after they were obsolete. I’ve had a saved search for the Sharp Widenote for over a decade and never got a single hit despite TV and magazine coverage (as well as a few photos online) implying that it really was a product that made it to production (and it doesn’t help that Sharp reused the name a decade or so later for a mainstream line of laptops).

But one of my favorite things about collecting laptops, apart from them always being at the cutting edge of technology and industrial design, is that they’re so small. That’s a lot of laptops right there but just imagine how much space they’d take up if they were full size desktops with monitors and keyboards…