My first laptop was a Compal JHL90 (2008)

Wait, it ran Windows 95 with 64 KB of RAM? Is that even possible?

Mine was an old IBM ThinkPad, I think, that ran Windows 2000. It was thrown away ages ago, I wish it wasn't

I think he meant 64MB, in 1997 who the hell used 64k of RAM? Actually my family's first laptop was some Compaq Armada running Windows 3.0.

A ThinkPad 600 with Windows 98SE. An IBM employee gave it to me in 2006. I forget the specs and type. Don't have it anymore because we did not know the Windows password. So, probably, since the ThinkPad was only at my house for a day, I think my real first laptop is my MacBook from June 2009. The Mac is very slow.

Oh some Sharp 1980's thing. It had a black and white screen, ran some version 5 of some word processor (only thing I managed to use), could of been running DOS, and I remember that I could power it with my Super Nintendo power supply. That laptop is long gone now. Probably worth something today but oh well.

My second laptop, and the first one that really meant anything was an IBM thinkpad R30.. P3 1Ghz/256MB/30GB/Win2K. Got it in 2006. Still works, but the chassis is falling apart, always had a tendency to run hot (pulled it apart at least ten times putting new thermal paste on each time, eventually replaced the whole cooling system) and is slow as hell to load, although that can be put down to the hard drive.

That could be the exact laptop I had. I didn't note the model number, but the specs seem similar.

My first, and only, laptop is a Dell Studio 1737 (4GB RAM, 500GB HDD, 2.1GHz C2D) that I purchased on August 8, 2009.

my first laptop i saw was a windows 98 thinkpad a part of our family shown me

My first laptop: NONE. I can't even afford a netbook, parents are restricted that much.

Why don't you work on summer for one ??

I got mine working a month

Anyway, my first laptop was a HP dv6921la, the power button, speakers, quick launch buttons and microphone don't work but it still runs pretty well . Came with Vista Basic.

My first laptop was an Acer Aspire 1310XC. It was at €900 at Carrefour in Santander. My dad had it until 2008. My sister had it until 2009, when she got an Acer Aspire 5735. I had it until its death, when the DC Jack (on the motherboard) was not working, and I tried to fix it but the motherboard was partially fried.
It ran :
Windows XP Home Edition RTM
Windows XP Professional SP3
Windows 98 SE
Windows ME (Surprisingly, it ran well)
Longhorn 4074.

Now I have a Samsung N150 netbook which cost €100 with the Orange Spain points program. (They are sooooo stupid, the netbook hasn't got a mobile internet modem) (said that because in Spain, when the operators make an offer like this, they include an internet modem to earn much more money)

my first laptop: iBook G3 600mhz (12" 16VRAM) 256mb of ram 20gb hdd, aursome laptop, pitty i fried the gpu by overclocking it (yes fried it, not the infamous gpu fault), now i have a dual usb (500mhz) to replace it (along with my MBP)

IBM ThinkPad 701C with Win95

My first Laptop was ACER Aspire 4530 (2009)

the second is ACER Aspire 5741G (2010)

I get royalties checks that the US gov. wants to tax heavily so last year I shot most of it on my first laptop (Black Friday discounted).

A Lenovo ThinkPad W510, w/ Intel Core i5, 4GB DDR3, etc.
also a 9 cell battery

An Acer Aspire 5672WLMi, was hot [censored] in 2006 with a brand new 1.6 GHz Dual Core cpu and 1 GB of ram!
Also came with the x1400 Mobility Radeon GPU which would play Half-Life 2 at 1280x800!

Paint on the palm-rest lasted about 9 months (covered with a sticker), the power brick lasted 6 months (and had to send in the whole machine ffs Acer), the screen lasted maybe a year before someone accidentally dropped a football on it (middle school is terrible, btw), cooling system completely failed after two years (£70 replacement), hard disk after three.
All in all I would have been far better off with a more compact IGP based laptop and a new desktop to game on.

Lesson is: don't buy an expensive consumer laptop, they are made from cheap plastics and don't perform as well as desktop computers. Buy Latitude, ProBook, Elitebook or Thinkpad.
I bought a Aspire 1410 11,6" that I had for little over a year (all in all a pretty great laptop for what it is (slow, compact), high dpi display).
Then I bought an E6410 this year which I expect will last until at least 2014 (when the warranty expires), it's definitely the best laptop I've owned.

Edit: the other lesson is always get accident insurance for laptops, they're high risk items.

My first laptop was a 1995 Toshiba Satellite T2130CS which I got in 2004. It had an Intel DX4 75mhz processor, 16mb of ram(max 32),512mb hdd and it ran Windows 98SE(suprisingly fast as well). Sadly it died 5 years ago when the hard drive failed.

My first laptop was some tacky Advent, I can't remeber the model but it ran Windows XP and it was huge compared to my HP Mini I have now.

Toshiba NB100

Sharp PC MM1110 that someone gave to me for free. The hard drive kept clicking and stopping so you had to hit it. Turns out i had to reseat the HDD caddy. Now it works fine!

First bought laptop was a Toshiba Satellite in 2009. This lasted for 1 and a Half. Had to be taken to the computer shop about 4 times due to it cutting out as a result of dust. In October 2010, it ran it's last program - the motherboard failed completely. Someone bought it on eBay for about £50. I now have a HP laptop that is almost 1 year old!

My first laptop and one I'm on right now, (I'm at a friends house) is a Samsung Qx530. It has a Core i3 2.5GHz and 4GB of RAM. (Onboard graphics obviously)

My first laptop was a Gateway 4026GZ Celeron M 350, Windows XP, 256 MB RAM and 40 GB HDD. Bought in 2005/6, died 2007.

A 1996/7 Dell H500GT.
500 MHz P3
128 MB RAM
ATI M1 4 MB
HD: 40GB 4200RPM Hitachi IDE
OS: Was changing OSes, Whistlers, Windows 95, Windows XP, Windows ME, Windows 98

Never had a laptop but I think my first will be a MacBook Pro, and probably I'll buy it soon. I always liked Apple's laptops.