Many young adults ditch laptops for smartphones

Smartphones are more important to young adults in the U.S. and three other countries than laptops, desktops or tablets, according to a survey of 1800 18- to 30-year-old users in 18 countries.

The laptop was still preferred over the smartphone by Generation Y users in the remaining 14 countries in the survey, but usually by only a small margin, according to the online survey of full-time university students and workers between ages 18 to 30 was conducted by a research unit within Cisco.

It is the third annual survey from the unit, and unusual because the sample size is so large. The results were released last week.

Laptops were preferred by 37 percent of respondents in all 18 countries surveyed, while smartphones were preferred by 32 percent, desktops by 16 percent, and tablets by 11 percent. The results are based on the question: If you had to choose just one device to own, which would it be?

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Source: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9234594/Smartphones_out_rate_laptops_for_young_adults

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