而现在，电脑已经普及开来，即便是在世界上最贫穷的国家，电脑也并非是什么稀罕之物，加速回报定律表明，电脑是越普及越便宜。

Now computers are everywhere, including the poorest nations of the world, and the law of accelerating returns means they get cheaper as they become more ubiquitous.

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现在世界上大约有10亿台使用中的笔记本电脑，很多上班族每天与PC在一起的时间比睡觉或与家人在一起的时间还要多。

Roughly one billion PCs are now in use across the world; many office workers spend more time with their PCs than they do asleep or with their families.

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有些人在世界上最大的电脑制造商惠普最初拒绝sun的提议之后预测它最终还是会卷入这场收购。

Some had even predicted that Hewlett-Packard (HP), the number-one computer-maker, would finally get involved, after initially rebuffing overtures from Sun.

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