How many computers do you use?

Do you do everything on one laptop you carry around with you? Or do you have a laptop and a desktop? Can you describe your various setups? Do you have flex devices like tablets? How do you divide your time between your phone and bigger screens?

Just want to chat on this subject.

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[Luis Diego Hernandez]

So nice to see so many people using many computers. I was feeling kinda bad about thinking I'm forcing myself to "need" more computers.

Currently I'm using 3 computers but looking to extend the family. But in terms of all devices, as others have shared, I use:

1. MacBook Pro from work, which now I use solely for work - before I used to use it for both work and sometimes personal stuff after work, like checking social media and stuff. Now I prefer to use another device for that.

2. Personal MBP that I used to use for work and I use for personal/freelancing work. I do all work outside my job on this one, and I do most browsing and video calls (over Zoom, for example).

3. Gaming laptop that I rarely use. I sometimes have a big urge of playing WoW or some other thing. I think I use it once a month recently. I was trying some streaming and podcasting setup, which I found to be able to do it more easily on this laptop than on the MBP.

4. I use an iPad for most of my video consumption. Most of my YouTube, Netflix, Disney+, etc., use is done on the iPad. Also, I use this device for recording instruments on GarageBand (I'm not professional :P) and photo editing on Lightroom.

5. I also use my phone a lot for voice-only calls, social media, browsing and reading short articles, and also a bit of YouTube, some games, and email.

I guess that I could live without the gaming laptop and the iPad, as I don't play so often and I could do mostly everything I do there on the laptop. Now I'm thinking of getting a Chromebook to do most of my browsing and some social media instead of the personal MBP so I can leave that only for work. I'm finding it really hard to justify, though. I've also thought about getting a Raspberry Pi, but I'd have to get a new monitor probably and all.

Anyway, just wanted to share. I think with the current situation there must be so many interesting setups now!

[Amir Sadollah]

I own two laptops:

1. Dell - Inspiron 2-in-1 14" Touch-Screen Chromebook - Intel Core i3 - 4GB Memory - 128GB eMMC Flash Memory

• This is my home device. It stays on my desk at home and is where I do most of my work from home like spreadsheets, documents, online banking, etc.

1. Google - Pixelbook 12.3" Touchscreen Chromebook - Intel Core i5 - 8GB Memory - 128GB Solid State Drive

• This is what travels with me. I do all of the above including entertainment like YouTube and Google Play Movies. I also have the Pixelbook Pen which I use to take meeting and personal notes in Google Keep.

[Nicole Saunders 💻🌹]

I need more screens mostly. Usually I have a lot going on and having 5-6 windows open that I’m actively working with on one laptop drives me nuts.

Most of the time I’m looking stuff up on the iPad and working on the laptop. Great for tutorials.

[Kyoz]

• MBP mid 2015
• IPhone 5S
• Kindle Paperwhite
• I also have an old HP 4410s Laptop but is so slow so i just take it HDD away and use as an external drive to save data :)

That 's all i have :)

I'm also decide to build a pc for gaming (Don't ask me to play games on MBP :(( ).
But recently, i'm so busy. And i'm not interesting in games to much, just want to play some game to relax.

Honestly, i'm love to use linux than osx, especially ubuntu. I decide to buy MBP cause i have to do some design with AI, PTS...So i buy it and setting everything to work as convenience as i can :)

In the future, i'll build an PC just to use Linux. And this old MBP with me my design machine (I think so :))

Btw do you love reading Halpern, if so you must give kindle paperwhite a try. It's the best reading device and one of the most things i buy and no regret :))

[Anurag Mathur ]

I manage a team spread across 3 countries. I code mostly in Java and PLSQL. I develop an application which compiles and runs over Weblogic Server on Linux OS.

I use 4 devices.

My primary work device is a Windows laptop at office that I use for everything other than programming.

I code, and test on a DevOps hosted Linux VM, which I connect via VNC or Tarantella via a browser. The VM is setup with my comapny’s source control system for ease of development. I recently started using ZSH and use a bunch of my own scripts/ completions to mimic Oh My ZSH over our proprietary source control system.

I own a personal MacBook Pro and use it for personal stuff. I have learnt programming languages on it. I have experimented with dockers, etc on it. It’s my learning station. I do all my personal work on it. This allows me to maintain personal - professional separation.

The last device I use is my iPhone. It also serves as my primary email client.

[Nate]

Work laptop
Home desktop - movie watching
Personal phone - surfing, dev.to!

I'll use the desktop or laptop on dev.to if I have a lot of typing to do, your interface is awesome BTW.

[Drew Knab]

Three of them at the moment.

Work Desktop, Windows 10 where I do a lot of work in C#

Lenovo Thinkpad X220, Linux box where I do a majority of my remote and personal work. 8GB/i5 is fine for web dev, tbph.

2014 MBP 15inch, mostly adopted by my partner. She's using it to learn how to write code at the moment.

[Chingiz Huseynzade]

I have 2 computers:

1) Macbook Pro 13' - which I use to do my work, mainly programming. I also use it at university to study. While ago used it to play games.

2) Toshiba Satellite - with nvidia gtx 500, use it for gaming. Mainly to play CS: GO and Dota 2 :) But struggling with it, because it's too slow now.

[Sonica Arora]

My cofounder works on 7 9 machines simultaneously!… it's a flex set up with two three tablets (iPad + iPad Pro + Galaxy Tab), two phones (iPhone + cheap Android), a Windows machine, an old MBP and an Ubuntu machine paired with an iMac 27" at the center.

I taper off at two machines, a windows and an MBP, though my default is a Macbook Pro with Touchbar. I also use my iPad in the night for reading or surfing before hitting the sack.