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Okay, where is my prize.

The simple answer: everything

Mainly...really research. Finding recipes, reading tech info, etc.

Mainly, my home PC is a social tool. It obviously is used for other tasks, but primarily that's what it is.

I use mine for gaming, watcing movies, creating sound files (ring tones, etc), listening to music, and right now I'm creating a slideshow for my wedding

team fortress 2

porn

Gaming, Family picture/video editing/saving, music, work (programming + office apps).

Code + Games + Content Creation

porn and pc games...

I hare a work pc (at home), a gaming pc and a media pc. So pretty much everything that my life entails involves my pc's in some way. Also that definetly files me into "nerdy pc geek" category, but hey nerds are now cool! Oh and my smartphone to, anything the computers do it is my mobile version of

PC Gaming

My work computer is used mostly for AutoCAD. The rest is for running commercial and proprietary engineering programs, and a little bit of word processing.

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.

Games, research, socializing, catching up on television I missed because I was doing the other three.

Gaming, porn, Hulu, news, porn, youtube, research, porn and school work.

coding/news

I use my computer like a Swiss Army knife, and curse it when it's not a Cuisinart (word I learned in Spaceballs - means Blender.) I'm an author - not pretentious, but I find people who tell others I'm a writer amusing, while if they tell those same people THEY are writers, it's amusing for another reason.

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.

Coding, gaming, testing Linux distros and software, custimizing, browsing, researching, news, socializing. Those are the main ones

Gaming, media (music, movies), Web (research, news, sports news), pictures.

Which computer? After all, we are geeks here!

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.

To research what kind of computer I'm buying next. . .

No seriously. . .photos, drawing/graphics, email, research

A little bit of everything. Photo, music, games, typing, web, TV, movies, etc...

PC A. Used for Gaming
PC B. Used For trouble Shooting, Extremely Light Gaming, and Internet

The Next QOTD should be how much storage do we have on our home machines and how much room do we have left! lol

These days it is mostly for web surfing/email/IM. Although, when I have time and I can round my friends up, we have a few hour long frag fest (BF2, TF2, etc). I really want to upgrade but the more I realize how little I use it these days the less I wanna spend big $$ on a new rig. I have a HTPC too and it gets used a lot more. Love those fan subs!

Little of everything. First things that come to mind are...

-downloading and burning audio content (legally!!)
-"digital darkroom": editing and printing photos
-research
-not as much gaming as I used to (haven't fired up a game in months), but I'm sure it'll see some gaming time
-email
-porn
-streaming audio (Sirius, etc)
-burning data to discs/archiving
-streaming tv shows

That just about covers it.

quantum physics, secrets of the universe, discovering time travel,communicating with my people on OGLE-TR-56b.

ok got to count these things
at home: laptop by the bed used for web browsing, music, and the occasional bit of remote wheign work calls early in the morning. and it's a p2 that is still in daily use. (am a tech as well; cobblers children have no shoes)

next is my beast desktop used for CAD, games, music, e-mail, browsing, and remote to work.
third is my media player / bench test computer. it's used to play movies to the tv and to test parts, recover hard drives.
finally have my eee-701 use this for e-mail, remote desktop, and whatever other mobile computing that i need

now the office i have 4 sitting on my desk ...
my workstation for general use, application test server, linux web test system, and win7 test system.

it's really more computers then i should know what to do with...
thing is each has it's use and i like having separate machines for certain things.

Preparing multiple lectures (moderately full teaching load)
Photo editing
Web-based work, mainly research of/for journal articles
Web-based fun, surfing and keeping up with hobby sites
Email
a little social networking
streaming audio/video - mainly guitar instruction and performing
Writing letters for snail mail (USPS)
Preparing book chapters and Journal articles - includes illustrations
Keeping up with latest technology in a number of fields
News: political and economic (I have canceled the newspaper and most magazines)
Reading much in the public domain

Video editing , gaming , music , video , surf on net.

PC 1 (XP x64) - games
PC 2 (Ubuntu) - Boxee, Miro
PC 3 (Win 2k) - old games
PC 4 (Ubuntu) - netbook for portable computing
SGI Indy, Sun SPARC 20, HP 9000/712, NeXTStation Color Turbo, and many other old machines - historical computing
Mac Mini (OS X 10.5) - everything else (where most of my real work gets done)

I fall under the "Which one" category.
I have my main PC which I do my modeling and programming. I also do my gaming on this PC

I have my testbed PC which I use for internet and testing out programs. I also use this one for beta's.

Finally I have my media PC which I use for my music and movies.