Study: you probably have 880 MP3s and 100 PDF files on your PC

by Brad Linder Aug 3rd 2007

Internet research firm comScore says the average U.S. computer had an average of 3GB worth of MP3 files, and over 300MB worth of WMV (Windows Media Video) files. The study looked at computer hardware and software configurations in April. Here are a few other interesting findings:

Hard drive capacity is on the rise. Over the first four months of the year, the number of computers with hard drives under 30GB shrunk, while the percentage of computers with 100GB+ hard drives rose.
Users with the largest MP3 collections are more likely to spend time online gambling, gaming, shopping, chatting, and doing just about any other kind of online leisure activity that was tracked
Users with large collections of Microsoft Word Documents were more likely to spend time online in business related pursuits like travel, finance, and shipping.

So take a look at what's on your hard drive. If you've got too many Office documents and not enough MP3s, odds are you're spending too much time working. On the other hand, judging by the sheer number of MP3s taking up space on the average computer, it doesn't look like that's really much of a problem for most Americans.
[via Information Week]

Tags: comscore, internet use, InternetUse, research, study

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Jack said 1:27PM on 8-03-2007

I've got 8 times more mp3s than the average user. I would never gamble online though.

mark said 1:37PM on 8-03-2007

I have 5600 mp3's and I do not do any of the activities above. I used to be a pc gamer before i met my beloved 360. I am however, an web addict. Must.. stop.. following.. links...

dw3558 said 1:47PM on 8-03-2007

And it never occured to them that computers with a lot of MP3's tend to be home computers and computers with a lot of office documents tend to be work computers? So their research shows that people tend to work at work and play at home? Brilliant!!!

s0ad said 4:02PM on 8-03-2007

I have a vast amount of mp3s, and I don't partake in any of those activities they list. gg ComScore.

kyle said 12:22AM on 8-04-2007

i think i'm above average. 120+120+320+40+500gb hard drive space, 400gb .avi, 40gb .mp3(and .flac)

i don't travel, gamble, or shop online.

nXqd3051990 said 9:18PM on 8-04-2007

I have about < 100 mp3. And no document because i stores it on Google Docs :P
nXqd

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