Almost half of all Japanese engineers have built their own PC
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If you hang around engineer-related web sites too long you get the impression that everyone is building their own computer in a desparate attempt to demonstrate that theirs is bigger than yours. But, what about in Japan? I’ve never tried asking my co-workers what they do, so perhaps this recent survey reported on by japan.internet.com and conducted by JR Tokai Express Research on the topic of building your own PC can be an excuse to ask them about their habits.
Demographics
On the 6th of June 2007 331 members of JR Tokai Express Research’s monitor panel who were either employed or did in their spare time software development, system development, or system management successfully completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 93.1% of the sample was male, 7.6% in their twenties, 37.8% in their thirties, 45.9% in their forties, 8.2% in their fifties, and 0.6% in their sixties.
Perhaps other married people can relate to me, but since tying the knot my PC budget has disappeared, so barring when a video card and a hard disk died, I’ve not delved into my computer for many a year.
Research results
Q1: Have you ever built your own PC? (Sample size=331)
Yes (to SQs) 45.6% No 53.8% Don’t know 0.6% I’m not sure where the two don’t knows come from!
Q1SQ1: How did you build your PC (or PCs)? (Sample size=151, multiple answer)
Votes Percentage Bought various parts and put them together 130 86.1% Took parts from an old PC to build a new one 48 31.8% Bought a bare-bones system and built it up 25 16.6% Bought a kit and built it up 14 9.3% Don’t know 0 0.0% Other 1 0.7% Q1SQ2: When building your own PC, which of the following are important? (Sample size=151, multiple answer)
Votes Percentage CPU 127 84.1% Memory 98 64.9% Motherboard 96 63.6% Hard disk 56 37.1% Case, power supply 53 35.1% Graphics board 51 33.8% Video card 33 21.9% Fan, cooling system 26 17.2% Optical disk drive 19 12.6% Sound board 17 11.3% Nothing in particular 4 2.6% Other 7 4.6% In addition, when asked if they planned to build their own PC in the future, 68.2% of those who already had said they wanted to build another, whereas only 33.7% of those who hadn’t built one planned to start.
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