Home Laptops Spend More Time Outside Than Business Notebooks

The most employer-owned portable computers stay in the workplace, although when mobilized, are often used in hotels, home offices and client locations. Home-owned mobile PCs spend more time outside the home than work mobile PCs do outside the workplace. Besides various rooms of the home, such as adult bedrooms, living rooms and home offices, home-owned laptops and tablet PCs are used twice as often as work mobile PCs in a school, at the library, in a cybercafé, or at a restaurant, the 2006 Mobile PC Profile Report from MetaFacts says.

Mobile PCs also have some surprisingly different uses than desktops, according to the Report. Mobile PCs are used three times more often than desktops for online betting, and two times more often to create presentations, write blogs, access community/social networking groups like Friendster or LinkedIn, and watch DVDs. Work mobile PCs are more likely to be used for CAD/CAM design. The results also indicate that mobile PCs are used more by the 18-34 age group than among the 55+ group.