By 2009 people will mainly use portable computers rather than desktop machines.
Accurate ●●●●●
“Individuals primarily use portable computers.”
- Said on
- 1 January 1999 · Prediction for 2009 (computers section) from The Age of Spiritual Machines (1999), as quoted in his 2010 self-review "How My Predictions Are Faring", which grades it "Correct".
- Source
- How My Predictions Are Faring (October 2010) · The Kurzweil Library
- Should come true
- 2009
- How sure they sounded
- none (stated as fact about 2009)
- Categories
- Technology
- Importance
- 2 of 5 · A shift in the personal computing industry's main form factor.
Outcome
Accurate Happened 23 December 2008.
iSuppli reported that worldwide notebook shipments (38.6 million) overtook desktops (38.5 million) for the first time in Q3 2008, and laptops were about 60% of PCs sold in 2009, with consumer buying even more laptop-heavy. The installed base still held many desktops, but by the end of 2009 individuals were mainly buying and using portable machines.
- https://www.areadevelopment.com/Print/newsitems/12-23-2008/notebooks-laptops-computers-isuppli.shtml
- https://www.neowin.net/news/laptops-beat-desktop-shipments-in-q308/
History
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