How many computers do you have in your home?

[HopeHoops]

Poll question: How many computers do you have in your home?

By this I mean ones in some form of active use. I've got a freakin' museum in the basement so I don't count those. It also means laptops/desktop/server machines, not iPhones, etc. My count is 10. (The museum has about 15 and the parts graveyard is, well, I lost count.)

[ghostsofgiants]

1. Three.

My desktop and netbook, and my girlfriend's laptop.

[Lyric]

2. Two, but we only use one on a regular basis.

The one we use regularly is our HP laptop. The other is an older desktop.

[Pierre.Suave]

3. 2

I just had the great computer purge of 2009 a few weeks ago.

:P

[Iggo]

4. Two, going on three.

We have a 77 yr old (dad), a 47 yr old (me), and a 40 yr old (bro). And we've just been joined by a 13 yr old (niece). Dad doesn't use computers, but the kid's gonna need her own machine pretty darn soon.

[Deja Q]

5. define 'active'

1 main desktop
1 secondary desktop (rarely used)
1 primary laptop for school
1 disused laptop to be sold or donated
1 Commodore Amiga 500 in storage

[HopeHoops]

16. Last two don't count. Sold/donated isn't "in use" and my Amiga 500 and Amiga 2000 are in storage ;}

[hobbit709]

6. 9 currently

but I have enough parts to assemble 3 more. 5 are constantly running. My laptop is usually just sitting there unless I take out on a service call. My Digital Audio Recorder is used when I have a recording gig for a band. Then there's the one with Windows 7 Beta that I play with occasionally. They range in speed from a 1.73 GHz Celery in my laptop to a 3 GHz Phenom in my main system. Most are 2.5-3.0 GHz Athlon X2's.

[MorningGlow]

7. Five! For two and a half people!

Is that shameful? Or just indicative of the fact that Mr. MG is a computer geek?

1) Mr. MG's desktop
2) Mr. MG's work laptop
3) My old iBoob (still use it occasionally because it has PhotoShop, Quark, and Dreamweaver)
4) My iBook
5) Mr. MG's old desktop for MG Jr. to play learning games on it (however, he prefers driving games on the XBox 360)

[MajorChode]

8. 7 (I think)

All four family members have their own desktop. I still have an older desktop I keep around because I haven't taken all the files off of it and it still has some programs not on the others. I have two laptops and my wife keeps bugging me to get her another one.

I hate computers, though. If it were up to me I would just have one in the house.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

9. We have five...

And they all get used...

My desktop, heavily used!
My laptop...

My husband has three...one for math/science, one for our banking stuff, and one for I'm not sure what...

He has two Macs and a new PC...

I have two PC's.

[old mark]

10. 2, both in active use. nt

[av8rdave]

11. Six, but actually use 4 of them anymore

[leeroysphitz]

12. 5. A desktop apeice for myself, my wife and my oldest son.

A laptop for my nursing student wife and an old Alienware I got off of Craigslist for 60 bucks that I hooked up to my TV and use a multimedia center.

Not too mention all the other gizmos. Ipod touch, PSPs, PDA, MP3 players etc...

[Ivan Sputnik]

13. Four

but one belongs to my employer, not me.

[Lost in CT]

14. five plus a server rack... but honestly most of them just talk among themselves. nt

[tabbycat31]

15. 2--- desktop and laptop

[fizzgig]

17. three

i have my laptop and my boyfriend and roommate each have their own desktop.

[Midlodemocrat]

18. Six.

[graywarrior]

19. Not enough

[GoneOffShore]

20. 2 MacBooks, a PowerBook G4 and a bondi blue iMac

Plus there's an iBook with a dodgy logic board connection.

It's a sickness.

And a MacClassic II doorstop.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

21. I said 4: A desktop and a laptop I use a lot, a desktop and a laptop I don't use a lot, and>>>

1 laptop I didn't count-- works well but it's old. I keep thinking I'll convert it from 98SE to linux.

[no name no slogan]

22. My MacBook, and my work ThinkPad

I also have bits and pieces that could be assembled to make 1.5 PC-type towers, but they're unassembled right now.

[skygazer]

23. Four - my desktop, husband's desktop

my Dell laptop and my new Macbook.

I use them all but the Macbook is fast becoming the computer of choice.

[NMDemDist2]

24. 3- Hubby and I both have laptops and the desktop in the den

to run the wifi and printer

:hi:

[sarge43]

25. Two desktops, Hubster's and mine. n/t

[yellowdogintexas]

26. three currently but when my husband comes in from a field trip there are 4

because he brings home his laptop.

He has one upstairs in his project room. I have one on my desk and this one is in our family office/book room/computer room ...when we only had one in the house, this room was where it was located.

This room always has the fastest computer because of games.

[AlCzervik]

27. 8

[mvd]

28. 4

3 downstairs and one upstairs (one of the downstairs ones is a laptop, and the upstairs one is the one I use the most.)

[RushIsRot]

29. Only ONE that works.

[davsand]

30. I'm glad you broke out the parts graveyard and the museum.

I thought that was just kevsand and our household was the only one that had all the "Frankenputers."

My family room is one half computer workshop and one half usable space. I have to admit, however, that we sure do save by not having to pay anyone to fix problems, and we do benefit by helping the neighbors when their boxes break down. Fixing computers can be very much a "barter" type skill.



Laura

[HopeHoops]

31. Hmm. Timex Sinclair, VIC-20, Apple II+, C=64, Amiga 500 & 2000,

Commodore +4, two old ThinkPads (including the original 750 B&W), and at least 15 386 or newer boxes in various states of function and scavenging. Oh, then there are the printers like the late 70's NEC SpinWriter which weighs about 80 lbs, several 9 and 24 pin dot matrix types, and the original HP Office Jet LX. Did I mention monitors?

[davsand]

37. But do YOU have the really big floppies? (not to get TOO personal!)

The ones that look like an LP?

My garage is a treasure trove. It won't hold a car, but I swear to gawd the Smithsonian could do a display on the stuff in that garage. Running joke in our family is: Where is the Ark of the Covenant? In your Father's GARAGE. THAT is where it has been stored all these years!

:evilgrin:


Laura

[annonymous]

32. 3 that work plus one for backup

There is one that my son uses, one that my daughter uses, one my husband and I use, and one that we keep on hand in case of a computer crash. We also have an extra monitor, a spare CD drive, a few hard drives, a hard drive formatter, a router, extra flash drives, and extra card readers. My husband builds our computers from barebones kits so we always have spare computer parts around. He has also fixed family members computers too.

[Drunken Girlfriend]

33. Only one computer

Just one,as I live alone in a one bedroom apartment.

[B3Nut]

34. 5 here...

My Vista desktop, my XP desktop for ProTools, my wife's XP box, a Vista laptop, and my Windows Home Server box I built originally for the beta version (I was a WHS beta tester), it's now running the full version. I *love* WHS, it's one of the best and handiest products Microsoft ever came up with.

I'd really love to get his & hers 24" iMacs, but we're poor. :(

Todd in Cheesecurdstan

[surrealAmerican]

35. Seven in more or less active use.

Like you there is also a "museum" of obsolete machines in the basement too.

[Left Is Write]

36. Four in active use. Various pieces and parts out in the garage.