Personal Computer

Worldwide one billion People exceeded the number of PCs in 2008. Found over 60% in mature markets like the United States, Europe and Japan. Despite the economic crisis in the second quarter of 2008, growth was 16%, but is expected to decline 6% in 2009, despite the growth in countries like China, India and Brazil, for the rapid pace of adoption of the information society in these countries and also by the tendency for lowering costs. In Europe, the percentage of households with computers is very high, above 55%. Spain with 46% is below the European average. In regard to the type of computers, desktops are more widespread than laptops in all European Union countries. This is due in large part on that until recently, laptops were priced well above the desk and had a lower performance.

 The percentage of households that only have fixed computer decreases in countries reach higher levels of development on the information society such as Denmark, Holland, Sweden, Finland and Luxembourg where the number of households with portable computer exceeds 30%. The increase in the number of laptops is related to different habits of users who are failing to understand the computer as a device for shared use to make it a personal device. Overall the laptop owner usually be more technologically advanced people, the profile matches the one hand, with younger users (more than three-quarters are below 45 years), and otherwise behave in a completely different, more interested in watching videos the Web, to serve the home network to download music and videos, and listen to audio. Another important factor behind the current boom of laptops compared to desktops is the great fall in prices they have experienced. Thus, according to NPD, the price of laptops has decreased by 25% between June 2006 and June 2008 before the 1% decline in the desktop.

During the year 2008 has seen the birth of the concept of Net , notebook or subnotebook , which has its origin in the OLPC (One Laptop per Child, One computer for each child) propelled by the guru Nicholas Negroponte to make accessible the information society the children of the Third World by making a low cost computer. Its development has two things: technology equipment at a cost well below the traditional and incentives to manufacturers to try to capture an emerging market and huge potential supply. Following this concept, manufacturers have developed in recent years several models in this line. This new category of devices, small laptops that incorporate all the basic elements of a classical computer, but with significantly smaller size and more importantly a much lower precede precursor ha side el Eyck PC Asus.