1 Billion PCs by End of 2008

javipas writes "Acording to a study published by Forrester Research, 2008 will be the year in wich a psychological barrier will be surpassed. By the end of next year there will be 1.000.000.000 computers all around the world, a number that will double itself in just five more years. The reason: the emerging markets of countries such as Brazil, China, India or Russia, which will be responsible for 775 million new PCs and laptop computers. Part of them, of course, coming from projects like the OLPC's one."

Re:775?

[Ucklak]

I believe the 775 is a typo in conjunction with the FP. I assume it to mean 77%.

Re:Typo

[nagora]

[punctuation - first word after a full colon should be capitalized]

Certainly not the case in English English; I don't know if it's true in American English.

vs 2B cellphones today

[blackdefiance]

There are already over 2B active cellphones in the world, and there will be more by the end of 2008... an interesting comparison of market penetration.

Re:Typo

[Actually, I do RTFA]

Nor in American English. Take my comment with a grain of salt, as I always got higher marks in Maths than English. Of course, being on Slashdot, that should be assumed.

Re:A Waste

[moranar]

Ahem. I was there, and I remember Windows 95 did jack shit with 4 mb of RAM. Maybe you're thinking of Windows 3.11?

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_'95 [wikipedia.org] :
"Official system requirements were an Intel 80386 DX CPU of any speed, 4 MB of system RAM, and 50 MB of hard drive space. These minimal claims were made in order to maximize the available market of Windows 3.1 converts. This configuration was distinctly suboptimal for any productive use on anything but single tasking dedicated workstations due to the heavy reliance on virtual memory. Also, in some cases, if any networking or similar components were installed the system would refuse to boot with 4 Megabytes of RAM. It was possible to run Windows 95 on a 386 SX but this led to even less acceptable performance. To achieve optimal performance, Microsoft recommends an Intel 80486 or compatible microprocessor with at least 8 MB of RAM."

Re:Typo

[Anonymous Coward]

http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/410/grammar /colons.htm [uvcs.uvic.ca]

not capitalized