QOTD: What Do You Mainly Use Your PC For?
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We all use computers daily. Some of us are very mobile with our computing, preferring to stay on a laptop to do business. Some of us, build our own computers so we can customize it and get the most for our money.
The face of computing has changed a lot in recent years too. Everything's going social. More and more games are going online. However:
The question of the day is: What do you mainly use your PC for?
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Okay, where is my prize.
Mainly...really research. Finding recipes, reading tech info, etc.
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My home desktop computer is used for surfing the internet, storing and editing digital photos, and a little bit of programming.
My laptop computer is used for checking email, internet, and connecting to my office computer when I travel, and used as a remote terminal to my work computer when I'm working from home.
I value my computer for its aptitude for record keeping. If I am not citing a word I wrote or searching well organized resource material (includes RTFM guys,) I am using it for dating letters and events, or proving what I was requested to do. NOTE TO SELF: Learn to prove what I've DONE :-)
Go Dilbert. He'd figure out a slow discharge capacitor for UPS of a laptop and dispense with the weight of a not yet dead but surely going to die battery. Of the available PCs, the laptop should be applied like Frank Lloyd Wright for its portability; I'm not done with my desktop.
1. My laptop is just used for school work when I am at school or otherwise not at home. Given its modest specs (Dell Latitude E5400: C2D T7250, 80 GB HDD, GM45 IGP) and the fact that it's a laptop, it's really not good for much else. But it fills that role perfectly.
2. My HTPC is just used as an HTPC. It also can't do much else as it was made mostly from parts gotten off a trash pile next to a local computer store (1.6 GHz AMD Duron, ASUS A7N8X-E with a tab broken off the socket, PCI GeForce 6200.) But like my laptop, it does its job very well.
3. My desktop is my main machine and it pretty much is a jack-of-all-trades. It's getting up there in years (socket 939 X2 4200+), but it still gets the job done well enough. Mostly I use it for school work since that's what almost all of my time is spent doing. But I also occasionally watch videos on it and every so often will play a game. This computer also is the print server and backup server, so my wife can print from her laptop and back up her files to it without dragging her laptop downstairs. I also keep digital photos on my desktop and of course do e-mail, Web browsing, and whatever else I need to use a computer for with this machine.