In all seriousness, laptops in the 1800's was brought to an exceptional level. Unlike today in which we shoot snappy emails at lightning speed and just abuse the English language and grammar to no-end, in the 1800's it was the opposite.
Letter writing was not only done to convey messages and to stay in touch, it was done as a form of recreation and a lot of pride went into it. Calligraphy was often practiced and presented in the letter, and words were well thought out and rather elaborate. With no television or radio to listen to, those with education enough to write; not only did so, they did so in an artful way!
To that end many woodworkers were employed to build lap desks which were the precursor to the laptop we know now. Many were very elaborate and a lot of skill and attention to detail went into them. Sitting on a train, they would often write away to love ones as a vast world began to get smaller and smaller. Even George Washington's lap desk is preserved at the Smithsonian Museum because of its importance to our countries independence and history.
In some ways the attention to detail our computer programmers use in the laptops of today have come full circle. For the educated traveling man of the 1800's, a lap top was just as vital as it is to the traveling business person of today...its just the grammar has gotten sloppy! (LOL)
(As in Laughing Out Loud and not 1800 shorthand for Lots Of Lumps in my feather pillow !)