Umpc | 世論 What Japan Thinks

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By Ken Y-N ( June 2, 2009 at 22:46) · Filed under Hardware, Polls

Which terms for mini notebook computers do you know? graph of japanese statistics The “Japanese” in the title refers to the people answering the questionnaire, not the make of the computers as a few foreign names found their way into this survey from MyVoice into computer maker brand image.

Demographics

Over the first five days of May 2009 14,915 members of the MyVoice internet community successfully completed a private online questionnaire. 54% of the sample were male, 1% in their teens, 14% in their twenties, 35% in their thirties, 30% in their forties, and 30% aged fifty or older.

It’s no surprise to me in Q5 that Apple came top, as a previous survey into design found Apple was way out in the lead.

For Q7, another survey earlier found that UMPC was actually better-known than Netbook, but here we see an almost four to one ratio of Netbook to UMPC (Ultra-Mobile PC).
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UMPC both more and less well-known than Netbook in Japan

By Ken Y-N ( April 9, 2009 at 22:48) · Filed under Uncategorised

Have you ever heard the term 'UMPC (Ultra-Mobile PC)'? graph of japanese statistics It’s difficult trying to work out the meaning from the results of a questionnaire into Japanese people’s understanding of English computer-related technical terms, so I’ll just present the results of a survey from goo Research and reported on by japan.internet.com into computers.

Demographics

Between the 19th and 23rd of March 2009 1,062 members of the goo Research monitors completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 53.5% of the sample were male, 17.1% in their teens, 18.8% in their twenties, 19.3% in their thirties, 16.5% in their forties, 15.9% in their fifties, and 12.3% aged sixty or older.

That definition of UMPC is not really what I thought. I wouldn’t have said it had to be a tablet, but a thumb-driven keyboard and looking like a seriously-shrunk laptop with built-in mobile phone, with the WILLCOM L4 being the prime example that springs to mind. Incidentally, I’ve played with that beast and it seems to be trying to run Vista in far too little RAM, as even after ten minutes it was still busy whirring the disk trying to start up! I gave up on it at that point.