One third would sacrifice chocolate to keep notebook computers

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Hamburg – A survey of Europeans has discovered that about one third would sacrifice chocolate and sweets for a year rather than give up their notebook computers, chipmaker Intel said Wednesday. Intel commissioned a poll in nine European nations to discover how attached owners are to their mobile computers, and what they find most frustrating about the current generation of laptops. The top frustration was uniform among the 2,700 users surveyed: the lack of battery power. “Users hate it when the notebook expires after an hour and a half, or four hours at the very most,” said Hans-Juergen Werner, an Intel Germany executive, at a presentation in Hamburg, Germany in advance of the CeBIT computing trade fair in March. The poll found the average European laptop needs a recharge after two and a half hours. Two-thirds of Europeans who own notebooks generally take them along when they travel, the pollsters heard. More surprising were the sacrifices people would make to keep a laptop, and the differences among respondents, 300 per country. Among Poles, 42 per cent would skip sweets, the highest rate in Europe, whereas only 22 per cent of Germans could contemplate a year without confectionery. Russians topped the chart among those who would be willing to stop watching television for a year if that was required to keep a laptop: 42 per cent. Among Russians, 51 per cent would also give up their MP3 players in favour of a notebook. Among Czechs, 40 per cent would wash dishes by hand and do without a dishwasher rather than sacrifice the laptop. In the third quarter of last year, laptop sales in the Europe, Middle East and Africa region for the first time surpassed sales of desktop personal computers.

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