I’m moreso curious if laptop functions have been offloaded to phones. If you have a full gaming desktop, do you see the use case for an additional laptop? or if most people here don’t see the need for the increased processing power of a desktop, do you just use your laptop and a phone?
For myself, I mainly use my desktop, but I have a bunch of quite old laptops for tinkering.
Both. I mainly use my Desktop but the laptop is nice for remote work or if I want a change of scenery
Win 10 desktop for recording with Reason. Laptop running Linux Mint for everything else.
Laptop only. But I almost exclusivly use the laptop in a desktop setup with external screens and peripheral. And for now it’s even good enough for gaming, so there really is no need for a proper desktop.
Use my laptop for everything, need it a lot at uni and it’s beefy enough for desk tasks. Don’t game anyways so I never hit a heavy load.
Got a gaming laptop that functions for everything. Not as powerful as a dedicated tower, but being somewhat portable is worth it for me.
Gaming PC is in the living room for gaming and media center.
Laptop in my office up stairs for programming and I use Steam Remote Play for games that require keybmouse. Its nice because I can just unplug it from my dock and head downstairs with it if I want to browse on the couch.
I have a tablet too, but that’s used solely for movies, YouTube, or when I’m DMing because the footprint is smaller.
Just laptop. I don’t have a space for desktop, unfortunately.
Work laptop is set up as desktop and stays there most of the time. iPad is used for daily out of office tasks. At home, Surface (Windows tablet with keyboard) is used when i need to type something away from the office.
my laptop is my personal desktop ;)
Desktop, laptop, phone.
Desktop for heavy workloads and work when at home
Laptop for work when at work
Phone is useless for any sort of meaningful work and is used for Slack and/or browsing memes.
It’s not necessarily even that phones are too weak for work, it’s that it’s god-awful to try to get any work done on a phone when the only input method you have is touchscreen.
Shit, I have all of the above, in multiples.
I have kind of abandoned keeping a gaming PC up to date because I get sick of the bullshit. But the one I have currently isn’t too far behind, hardware wise.
But I use it for piracy, image management (including editing), video editing, etc. The stuff that punks out other devices.
I have a dedicated media PC that is hooked up to the TV and stereo, but is isolated from anything else. That’s what I still run Windows 7 on because musicbee on Linux isn’t ready for prime time.
Then there’s my wife’s old computer that’s hooked up to my kid’s tvt, not that it ever gets used. But it’s functional, so until it dies, that’s what it does.
My laptop is exclusively for my writing. Dual boot with win 10/mint Linux. The win10 exists only for a specific piece of software that makes publishing to amazon easier. No games, but I do some media playback with it when I have to travel.
Phones suck at media management, word processing, and pretty much everything else tbh. Too many lobbyists limitations, too much crap for proper multitasking, no good apps for long form writing. But I do use them as music players at home via headphones.
Tablets are for portable video consumption, crappy mobile games, and reading. Some short form writing is possible on a decent tablet.
I don’t see phones taking over much of what I use a laptop for, ever. And the screen size of even the biggest phones would suck for media management, even if it was realistic to store large amounts on one.
I use my laptop for anything that requires a real keyboard or bigger screen. Then I have my server, and my phone. So I mostly just use the laptop and the phone. I do have a dual screen phone though so that helps a bunch for multitasking.
Yes, I have both. The desktop is pretty beefy and runs Windows (for now) and is mostly used for games and Adobe stuff. The laptop is a Thinkpad running Linux Mint, and is my couch computer. I use it for normal web browsing type stuff, and for managing my home lab server that sits in a closet in my basement. I also play some lightweight games on it via Steam/proton.
I use a laptop as my PC. It is big and bulky, but it is mobile enough.
Gaming desktop, two laptops (one for work, one for personal), phone, a NAS for server stuff.