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How quickly do you buy new electronic gadgets?

11%

I like to be the first one to have anything new.

13%

I like to wait until they work out all the kinks.

30%

I like to wait until the price comes down.

40%

I wait until I really need the new functionality.

I wait till someone gives it to me as a gift.

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databasesearch for term: A collection of information organized and presented to serve a specific purpose. (A telephone book is a common database.) A computerized database is an updated, organized file of machine readable information that is rapidly searched and retrieved by computer.The term database is often erroneously referred to as a synonym for a database management system (DBMS). They are not equivalent. A database is a store of data that describe entities and the relationships between the entities. A database management system is the software mechanism for managing that data.