What is your primary computing device?

What is your primary computing device?

  • Desktop PC

    Votes: 123 53.5%

  • Laptop

    Votes: 94 40.9%

  • Tablet

    Votes: 4 1.7%

  • Smartphone

    Votes: 8 3.5%

  • Other

    Votes: 1 0.4%
  • Total voters
    230
More and more the laptop. I haven't switched my PC om in weeks, in fact I feel like selling both laptop and PC and getting a higher spec laptop
 
While I voted for Notebook/Laptop, I have reservations about choosing it based on wording i.e... computing & daily. I listed typical day to day uses of devices i use frequently daily and really.. The Smartphone is the primary background device and many fail to see and I probably haven't exhausted the list of things my phone does yet albiet i generalised quite a bit e.g. all comms

Daily Workload:
  • Server - Personal Work horse/slave which hosts all my data backups, media and computing slaves(vms that do my bidding)
  • Notebook/Laptop - Dev work, virtualisation, documents, browsing net/reference, media editor/advance, communication consumer
  • Smartphone(large) - All consumer computing need from tracking, gaming, shopping, browsing, all forms of communication, telecoms/routing device for all other devices, media creator & consumer, orchestrator of other devices (based on gps and push), eWallet/banking, etc.
  • Tablet - A Larger screen for consuming media and references, media editor/basic, communication consumer + acts as notebook 2ndary screen when mobile
  • Watch - Sensor and notification/event monitor
  • Smart TV - A larger screen for consuming media which is mostly sourced from primary device tho self source is possible & communication consumer

So yah.. it should be smart phone if u a power user and a standard size phone is not enough for you and you find that you need to charge a lot per day. btw this using the Apple ecosystem to it's fullest so all devices are connected/consumers of each others services in some form (background or directly). This relationship is expanding faster with every year since 2014/5 i'd say and the pace just keeps going.

In theory, if personal servers & data was cheap you could theoretically do away with notebooks entirely. At the end of the day work on the notebook is only limited by the computing power requirements + offline capability. Remove the need to work offline and you can relocate your entire desktop into the cloud and a large ipad with decent keyboard + touch pad is all you need.
 
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Laptop mostly, and for 'heavier lifting'. Tablet for more casual stuff.
 
AirWolf said:
Use a laptop for both work and personal (same laptop).

14" Lenovo Thinkpad (5 years old)
8GB Ram
250GB SSD
i3 2.13GHz
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I used to use my work laptop for home and work. It's just too much hassle to remove everything if and when I decide it's time to move on. Way easier to just keep the two separated.
 
Raspberry PI 3 with 1TB drive and 7 watt lcd. Its a 24/7 on power saver but does everything I need with Linux Xenial 16.04
 
Working in remote areas I have turned to a laptop. I can work on it as well as do some gaming in the evenings.

Although I have a pc in the office is so blooming slow (some Lenovo with an i5 and 4 gigs of ram) and restricted (Everything is blocked).
 
nicc777 said:
This is so insensitive!! How can you call a Mac Book Pro a Laptop??
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Let's see: Is it inferior to a desktop in every way except portability? Screen(s): check, Keyboard: check, mouse: check, Hardware: check, Expandability: check. Yip, it's a laptop!
 
Fixed:
Mac Pro 12 core. 2xOS SSDs. 4x3TB internal storage drives. GTX 780Ti GPU. 64gig RAM. That's one of 4 I work on.

Mobility:
MacBook Pro 15" Retina 2.7 i7
16gig RAM
500gig SSD

I do visual effects, CG and post production so need these beasts
 
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