But Osborne wanted them to be in every hand.
Portability is subjective.
A Walkman is portable because it fits in your pocket. A massive boom box is portable too, sometimes just because it has a handle. The Osborne 1, at 24 pounds, wasn't compact, but its sewing machine-size case and, yes, handle, made it portable. Its 8-bit microprocessor crunched numbers in SuperCalc and processed words with WordStar. The Osborne 1 was big and bulky, but broke the chains tying computer users to their desks.