23.06.2008 16:36 Uhr, Quelle: Engadget

Worldwide PCs in use surpass 1 billion, next billion to come in 2014

Filed under: Desktops, Laptops So, we hear that Planet Earth is home to four billion phone lines. Now it can claim to house over one billion installed PCs -- what do those neighboring planets have on that, huh? According to research firm Gartner, the number of "installed PCs worldwide has surpassed 1 billion units," and it estimates that said figure is growing at around 12-percent annually. Should this trend continue, we'll be reporting on 2 billion sometime during 2014. It should be noted that this figure accounts for computers in use

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