Study: you probably have 880 MP3s and 100 PDF files on your PC
- 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.
[via Information Week]
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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.
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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...
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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!!!
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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.
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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.
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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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