Portable computer

A train commuter watches a news broadcast of the Battle of Earth on a portable computer.

A portable computer is a personal computer that can easily be transported from one location to another, similar to a modern day Laptop computer. Humanity has multiple types of portable computers:

• Data pad - A PDA-like device commonly used by members of the UNSC.
• TACPAD - A military PDA device similar to the data pad.
• COM pad - The civilian equivalent, modeled more on a mobile phone.
• Chatter - A mobile device worn on the wrist.

Trivia

• During 2552, Dr. Halsey used a laptop, a version of an older form of a Portable Computer while on Onyx in the Sentinel Manufacturing Facility to store a small underdeveloped smart AI named Jerrod.

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  A UNSC portable computer.

List of appearances

• Halo 3
• Halo: Ghosts of Onyx (First appearance)
• Halo Graphic Novel
  • Second Sunrise over New Mombasa