You probably won't be surprised that more of us are rockin' a laptop (87%) than a desktop (63%) computer, but we aren't far from the rest of the nation there (75% have a laptop). I took the leap to think you may also be interested in how many of each technology type we have here in the Rulon household (remember there are just four of us). We have SIX laptops. Before you judge, one is downright vintage that I stopped using for a prior job in about 2003 (and it was several years old then), and another runs so slowly that you can go make a cup of coffee between what should be short tasks, so it is also out of use. Have I mentioned that my husband keeps everything that may be of some use, say 10 years in the future? Yes, that still means one fully-functioning laptop in the house for each person, including the 9-year-old who has a hand-me-down from me.
It starts to get more interesting for smartphones. I knew it would be a majority, but I was surprised that 8 out of 10 of us have smartphones. But then I tried to think of those I know with feature phones, and about all I came up with is my mom and my dad. Even my grandmother tried a smartphone for a while, although I think she did go back to a feature phone. I know you are anxiously awaiting the specific brands we're all carrying around, but you will have to wait for a future blog post for that.
Oh, what about the Rulon household? Yes, we are holding our own on smartphones as well. We have 7 in the house, and that's without the 9-year-old having one. But, only 4 are active, and one of those is just to test the service Ting (which I also plan to review in an upcoming blog post - I'll bet the two of my five blog readers actually interested in technology are really excited now ; )
Finally, almost as many of us have a tablet (71%). I'll bet most of those are iPads, but I haven't peeked at that data yet. Here in casa Rulon, we have four tablets, and we are just about as brand diverse as you can get - I personally have a Surface Pro (great personal laptop replacement) and a 7" Kindle Fire; my daughter has a 3rd generation iPad; and my son has an Asus Transformer.
Here's the statistic that most amazes me with this survey - I completely forgot to include eReaders. How did I do that when I've been such a personal fan of the category since the Kindle 2? The good news is that I forgot something like that on my fun, personal survey, rather than a survey I painstakingly developed for work.
Now, you can all marvel at my cute chart:
