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1 Billion PCs by End of 2008

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the most-in-landfills-by-2012 dept.

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."

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  1. My that's one big botnet by the_humeister · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Perhaps we should start making environmentally friendly computers? I certainly don't want any of those toxins in my ground water.

  2. Imagine a beowolf cluster... by sakdoctor · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Imagine a botnet of these!

  3. Handcranks... by blankoboy · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Better get some hand-cranks on those suckers because in 5 years times electricity (along with gas) will no longer be the take for granted utility that it is now.

    1. Re:Handcranks... by inviolet · · Score: 2, Interesting

      having temperatures and weather patterns that permit production of food, et cetera.

      Moving the temperate zones away from the equator and towards the poles will create more agricultural land, not less. Do you have any idea how much tundra there is, just sitting there uselessly frozen?

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      FATMOUSE + YOU = FATMOUSE
  4. Re:A Waste by jshriverWVU · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Windows 95 only needed 4mb of RAM

    Flashback, wow... actually by todays standards what would qualify as an embedded system.

  5. Price has a lot to do with it. by Isaac-1 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    A lot is about the price

    My first PC was over $1,500 with no hard drive and 256K of ram

    My second was a loaded 486-33 with a 212 Meg HD and 8 megs of ram at just under $4,000 ......

    Last year I bought a 2.4 Ghz P4 desktop system (no monitor) from Dell Outlet for under $200 with shipping

    Last month I bought a sub 5 pound used (like new) P3 Compaq Aramada for $130.

    Talk on slashdot keeps revolving around a $99 laptop coming soon.

    Combine the ever dropping price, with 20+ years of production (i386 and newer) of all the hand me down systems out there, and the 1,000,000,000 is inevitable.

    Ike