Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Technology Stocks : Dell Technologies Inc. -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (82973)	11/30/1998 8:48:00 PM
From: Sonki	Respond to of 176387

very intresting numbers on PC ownership nears 50 percent > > Nearly half of U.S. households now have a personal computer, according > to market research by a unit of Ziff-Davis > <http://dbcbeta.dbc.com/data/squote.htx?TICKER=zd&TABLES=table&SOURCE= > $(sou rce)>. The study showed household PC penetration stood in August > at 38.2 percent, a gain of nearly 3.5 percent from January. "By the > time we get to the end of the year, we should easily see household PC > penetration surpass 50 percent," said ZD Market Intelligence's Dave > Tremblay. Income is a factor in ownership, he said, pointing out the > higher the household income, the more likely it is to have a PC. > Nearly three-quarters of households with annual incomes above $75,000 > have a PC, while only 22 percent of households with income less than > $20,000 own a PC. However, lower income households are gaining ground. > Households with incomes below $30,000 represented less than > one-quarter of all PC households, but more than one-third of all > first-time PC buyers in 1998.