The first machine that looked like today’s laptops—flat screen in a clamshell design over the keyboard—was the GRiD Compass. British designer Bill Moggridge created it in 1979, and it was ...

and a clamshell design that makes the system look a little like a tiny laptop. It even has a QWERTY keyboard designed to let you type ...

In my Surface Laptop 5 review I called out the comforts of this clamshell design but criticized the poor battery life, low-quality webcam and glare-prone screen. Now Microsoft is making a bunch of ...

The clamshell laptop also gives Japan-based tech brand ... The 14-inch machine takes advantage of a modular design to allow quick addition of accessories like a DVD reader, a fingerprint sensor ...