Windows 10: How many computers does the average individual own?

Windows 10 pro 3.0 Ghz Dell Core Duo

Windows 10 pro S.B i7 HP Elitebook

Windows 10 pro / Win insider test buld dual boot HP slimline AMD phenom II x4 945 with discrete sound and HD Video
the daily driver and test bed and otherwise abused as needed .☻☻

Win 7 x64 HP P7 SB i7 with GTX 680 in a DAW configutation with ouboard pro audio interface and lots of other stuff ,USB and MIDI .


My old Win XP HP Pavillion 3.0 GHz P4 in the storage bldg. out back . not in use .


5 working PC's here 4 in use .

 

I'm retired as God intended we should be *Smile

2 Desktops, 1 runs Win 7 X64 and Apache Web Server for my family's web site, the other is our Win 10 X64 every day system.
2 Laptops, both running latest Windows 10 insider build.
1 Lenovo tablet.

 

I currently have 2 desktops both dual booting Windows 7 & 10 and an ASUS ROG Laptop upgraded from Windows 8.1 to 10.

I have also owned a Compaq Desktop that served me well for 7 years and 2 Laptops purchased previously that were factory restored and sold a to a good owner.

 

It depends on what you count as computers.

Smartphones are practically computers, and tablets and hybrids (such as Surface Pro) rival the computing power of many desktops.

The lines have blurred in the past few years.

If you are just counting desktops (the most traditional of computers), I have two--one running Windows 10 and another one running Linux Mint. I also have a Samsung netbook that runs Linux.

My wife has two laptops, and my eight-year-old son has a desktop that runs Windows 10.

 

Good points ,
MS Surface pro is a PC just in a hybrid form factor by every definition incliuding running x 86 code. Outside of a conventional PC form factor you can add in PC ,Android and Apple tablets ,modern smartphones ,moderm game consoles including the X box one running Windows 10 now and the PS4 running 2 modified 4 core AMD x86 APUs and ARM CPU inside and the PS3 and orig X box , or maybe X86 or Android wearables, maybe smart watches ?

Maybe smart TV s and media players ,networked media players and networkwed AVR's ( probably a big stretch)

Our vehicles are dependent on central processing units and aux moduals to run the petrol engines or elecric traction motors and operate the ABS brakes and sometimes stability control , driver assists , collision avoidance and comuterized infotainment ,climate and control systems .

So going all in and not counting the media players or AVR or TV's I'm at 5 PC's in the traditional sense
( four desktops and an Elite book ) a PS3 , 2 computerized motor vehicles , 3 Smartphones so maybe 10 all in all not counting all the separate computerized moduales in the vehicles outside or the main engine contol /powertrain moduales or the digital home security /camera system . ofc the heat light and power utility owns the utility smart meters .

How did we survive with vacuume tubes , maybe 3 - 5 TV channels OTA TV and maybe 25 on cable .
Analog 525 ( usually 350 +line ) B/W TV sometimes clear sometimes snowy sometimes nothing and 19-21-24" CRT B/W and dodgy ( Never The Same Color Twice ) color TV !

, radio phonographs ,Telex ,telegraph,typewriters , Ditto copiers ,telefax ,photocopiers ,print media ,books and and Rotary dial phones and elecric and wind up watches and clocks and electro mechanical devices ,appliances ,HVAC , vacuume tube radios,phonos and TV's ,punchcards ,10 keys , typewritwers and vehicles that could be repaired !

 

Two laptops and two desktop PC's running Windows 10. One laptop for me and one for my wife. Also a desktop PC for me for gaming and a spare desktop PC used as a Media PC. I also have two Raspberry Pi computers, one running Raspbian and the other Openelect. Ones for tinkering with electronics, the other a Media Center. I'm retired and have simple needs.

 

What's a computer? Surely tablets and smartphones should be counted. TVs, cars, coffee makers; we are swimming in computers. And they all have problems. Just this morning my stupid coffee maker decided not to turn itself on as scheduled, very annoying.

 

The rise of the machines! Damn, they know where to kick, so it hurts*Biggrin...

 

It certainly has a different meaning these days. Oldies like me usually hear the word computer and think laptop desktop. Like you mention though, now you have tablets, smart phones, smart TV's? That's why I mentioned having two Raspberry Pi's. They are single board computers. They won't run Windows (other than the IoT version) but will run Linux etc. IMHO Windows 10 IoT, is not Windows.

I build my own desktop PC's so I usually have at least one spare kicking around. Once I build my next desktop the third man out will be given away as I won't need it anymore. Actually I could do quit easily with just the one desktop PC. I have my laptop as backup if it crashes etc. I could also replace the media center tower with another Raspberry Pi. The only thing I'd lose is Netflix. Which I should probably cancel anyway as we hardly watch it.

 

Number of Computers (1.1bn) / Number of People(11.2bn) = 0,098

So (if you believe the numbers/definitions and so on), for every 10 people globally, 1 owns a computer.

The average person owns 10% (if you want to put it like that) of a computer (or a 1/10 chance of owning one) which is a lot more than I expected actually.

I've got 5 (2 of which don't really work any more) which skews it very very slightly..

First world problems *Wink

 

First world problems.

 

Yeah, I imagine the distribution curve on that looks more like a slug with his head up and his tail stretched way out more than a classic bell curve. - LOL

 

A straw, A bridge, A full cup*Roflmao2
By the way, there's more of them...

 

Can you post a picture of a classic bell* curve? I've no idea what it looks like.

 

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