I don&#x27;t know about the U.S. but here in Turkey we used to (4-5 years ago) refer to the portable computers as &quot;Notebooks&quot;. Nowadays most people call it &quot;dizüstü bilgisayar&quot; which directly translates to laptop computer.<p>Your comment made me think about that. Wonder how the usage in daily language changed... Maybe because notebook was English. Not sure.