diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index a0c46839..9431790f 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ SVN HEAD
                   Add detection of AMD family 12h and 14h thermal sensors
                   Add detection of EMC6D103S
                   Add detection of National Semiconductor LM75A
+                  Count DMI chassis type 8 as a laptop
 
 3.2.0 (2010-10-10)
   libsensors: Increase MAX_SENSORS_PER_TYPE to 24
diff --git a/prog/detect/sensors-detect b/prog/detect/sensors-detect
index 8ea2cecf..ca713ff4 100755
--- a/prog/detect/sensors-detect
+++ b/prog/detect/sensors-detect
@@ -2730,8 +2730,8 @@ sub dmi_match
 sub is_laptop
 {
 	return 0 unless $dmi{chassis_type};
-	return 1 if $dmi{chassis_type} =~ m/(Laptop|Notebook|Hand Held)/i;
-	return 1 if $dmi{chassis_type} =~ m/^(9|10|11|14)$/;
+	return 1 if $dmi{chassis_type} =~ m/(Portable|Laptop|Notebook|Hand Held)/i;
+	return 1 if $dmi{chassis_type} =~ m/^(8|9|10|11|14)$/;
 	return 0;
 }