Who still uses a laptop or PC?

The Sidewards Man

I have officially said soyanara to mine, bollocking waiting for them to do their booting, leads etc. No one needs a wire anymore.

Sheeps

Yet you're probably gonna pull the wire off yourself tonight.

Arsemageddon

I use both a laptop and a desktop, I need them for work. I don't have a tablet and I got rid of the smart phone last year - I was on the stupid fvcking thing all day and night

TBH I'd be just as happy if we still lived in the golden age of telegrams and carrier pigeons.

AnonoBoy

Loads of people I'd say.

Y'know for work and that.

No?

The Sidewards Man

Sheeps wrote: »

Yet you're probably gonna pull the wire off yourself tonight.

Your mother already provided that.

_Kaiser_

The Sidewards Man wrote: »

I have officially said soyanara to mine, bollocking waiting for them to do their booting, leads etc. No one needs a wire anymore.

Still have and prefer my laptops personally. Far better for typing on or doing anything work-related.

Tablets are grand as consumption devices - watching films, browsing the internet, sending no more than a few lines of an email etc - but even they add on keyboards for anything more (thus turning them into laptops).

On a related note.. my current 2 year old laptop has a problem that's a recognized design flaw... so I'm about to be sent the brand new equivalent model instead... result!

Sheeps

The Sidewards Man wrote: »

Your mother already provided that.

Well she does work in a micro penis clinic.

B.A._Baracus

A lot of people still use laptops or desktops.
Go into your average business and you are guaranteed to see a desktop or a laptop

Anorak34c

Ray Darcy

Kylo Ren

The Sidewards Man wrote: »

I have officially said soyanara to mine

Did it spit back "Did you mean: sayonara" ?

bollocking waiting for them to do their booting, leads etc.

Yeah. I wish they adopted the new phone and tablet 'bootless' feature.

No one needs a wire anymore.

Yeah, I'm loving these new solar powered phones and tablets.

El Chapo

I use a laptop, don't own a tablet. It boots up in about 30 seconds.

Don't tablets use a wire to charge just like a laptop?

lertsnim

You need a SSD if boot times bother you.

_Kaiser_

lertsnim wrote: »

You need a SSD if boot times bother you.

+1 .. and a wireless mouse/keyboard if cables annoy you

scopper

If you just watch a few movies or book a holiday I am sure you can do without.

Do pretty much anything else I can bet you a laptop is at hand. I don't know many people who do not own one.

Spanish Eyes

Me.

I love my desktop and the wifi printer and gazillions of ram. And a keyboard for the bestseller I am writing just now. Wait for it!

Have a tablet (for me nerves obv. lol), but it just does not do quickly what I can do on the desktop. But it comes in handy sometimes I suppose. Mainly for holliers.

There is nothing like a real keyboard, a mouse and a HUMUNGOUS screen to get you focused.

It's in the kitchen area too. So out of sight for everyone else. Can watch movies, and pretend I am cleaning or cooking or whatever. Brilliant.

There are just some things a tablet will not do for ya. Apart from the druggie type things!

Each to their own.

The J Stands for Jay

I have a desktop with a SSD. Tiny boot times. The tablet does my head in for anything remotely complicated

theteal

I'm not sure I understand the point of the thread. Is there a new viable alternative to the latop/desktop that I'm not aware of?

fleet_admiral

Havent used the laptop in a while but thats because of some dodgy windows 10 update that wont let it start and im too lazy to fix

moc moc a moc

The Sidewards Man wrote: »

I have officially said soyanara

That's not a word

And good luck playing Fallout 4 or watching a 4K movie on a tablet

Tenger

The Sidewards Man wrote: »

I have officially said soyanara to mine, bollocking waiting for them to do their booting, leads etc. No one needs a wire anymore.

I still use my laptop with its lovely big screen and dedicated graphics card for my gaming needs. It has a double power battery so runs for about 2.5-3 hours (while gaming) without needing a charge.
I have SSD installed in mine so it boots up in approx 30-45 secs. Which is quicker than it takes me to pour a drink and get back to it anyway.
Funnily enough most phones and all tablets still need wires to charge these days.......

AnonoBoy

moc moc a moc wrote: »

That's not a word

Soyanara

It's a non-dairy dessert isn't it?

The Sidewards Man

Sheeps wrote: »

Well she does work in a micro penis clinic.

That is a new name for a bordello I never heard of.

The Sidewards Man

moc moc a moc wrote: »

That's not a word

And good luck playing Fallout 4 or watching a 4K movie on a tablet

I don't play games, I'm an adult.

Junkyard Tom

I use a 13.3" Chromebook 2, no anti-virus needed, battery life is 7/8 hours, it's the bee's knees.

Chromebooks outsell Macs for the first time.

bandwagonesque

I use a laptop mainly for a bit of work. Downloading movies is a lot easier too. Software for ripping the DRM out of them if need be too. Smartflix for Netflix only works on Windows and OS X and the moment is brilliant.

If I need to edit photos of videos I've access to a Macbook too which is great for all that.

Wouldn't be able to not have a proper computer. Seriously limiting.

bodhrandude

I still use a laptop fcuk looking at boards on a smart phone, it takes forever to scroll.

Bongalongherb

I'm not fond of the laptops, never was, but I still use this big-ass desktop dell xps 630i system, fast as hell compared to any laptop/tab smart-phone. I just love the huge monitor as well, I'd be lost without it to be honest. I have a tab for on the go but I'm old fashioned and into the mouse and keyboard and just don't like the touch stuff. Showing my age indeed.

The only difference between using this desktop on boards is that it's all digital and no voice needed, just text. QSK, back in the day before the internet in Ireland it was CB radio, it was a forum within itself but you used voice to communicate at all times so any-one could hear what you said and join in.

How things have changed.

Seek-you, Seek-you, seek-you DX, yanky alpha tango 39 east coast Ireland seek-you. They were the days to communicate to the united states on upper-sideband/lower side-band. It's all gone voiceless nowadays.

old_aussie

A pissy little smartphone or tablet is not gonna hold all my porn downloads, even one day of downloads.

PC's and laptops are the go, plenty of storage and big screen viewing.

mickoneill31

I use my tablet for consumption (Web browsing, videos etc).

When I'm creating anything (documents, images, scripts etc.) then it's my laptop for work or PC for home work. I wouldn't have the patience to type a long document on Word for Android. Even this post is about the most I'd peck out on the tablet keyboard.

I don't think we're far off from docking a tablet or phone to a keyboard and monitor and just working away. The MS Surface is already there. I like the apps for android though and the cost of an android device vs the surface and I like keeping my messing about device as separate from my serious device.

spurious

Don't own and not a fan of laptops. Give me a big box of a PC that I can open and add to and fix myself, thank you.

The Sidewards Man

The Sidewards Man wrote: »

I don't play games, I'm an adult.

It would be better to say, "I don't play games because I don't like them." I'm sure a lot of your adult friends are gamers (smartphones count) so no need to be condescending to so many people.


As for the OPs question, I've got 4 laptops and a broken tablet.

My huge gaming / work laptop is basically a PC as it's connected to a 23" monitor most of the time.
Then I've a 14" laptop I use to work in cafes outside of work or during lunch. It's also good for Civ 5.
I've got an old 14" that mostly just sits there waiting to play media through the TV.. If my girlfriend wants to work in the bedroom while I've got the other 14", she's use it instead of luggging in the 5kg big one.
There's also the 10" Transformer which could be a tablet as well but me and the girlfriend only seem to use it as a laptop.. I kind of hate the thing but she likes it and uses it an awful lot so I'll keep it.

I never bothered fixing my old Nexus 7 because ultimately, I find tablets useless.. I'm always typing on boards or reddit instead of just consuming and I could never do work on one. I see their uses but for me, they feel limited.

PucaMama

bandwagonesque wrote: »

I use a laptop mainly for a bit of work. Downloading movies is a lot easier too. Software for ripping the DRM out of them if need be too. Smartflix for Netflix only works on Windows and OS X and the moment is brilliant.

If I need to edit photos of videos I've access to a Macbook too which is great for all that.

Wouldn't be able to not have a proper computer. Seriously limiting.

Does smartflix work? I thought Netflix blocked vpns

GLaDOS

Laptop for almost everything. Don't own a tablet but I'll use my girlfriends occasionally. Find it quite limiting for anything other than light browsing.

Duggy747

Have a laptop, pure Dell work horse from 2009 that served me well and never once gave grief. It's pretty much now the girlfriend's since I moved onto my desktops, the main one for gaming and whatnot is hooked up to the TV. Need to invest in a proper workstation for editing, though.

Have a 1st gen Nexus tablet but it's sort of relegated despite it being faster and better to read and watch stuff on rather than the phone. The phones are just more convenient.

Also have 2 Raspberry Pi which I have to get back to toying about with, had them set up as emulator machines / media boxes.

Wibbs

ScienceNerd wrote: »

Laptop for almost everything. Don't own a tablet but I'll use my girlfriends occasionally. Find it quite limiting for anything other than light browsing.

Ditto. I use an iPad the odd time, but find it restrictive when compared to the full fat laptop. I'd only browse the interwebs on a phone in the direst of emergencies.

beach_walker

Give me a proper machine over a tablet any day of the week. Initially my iPad got a lot of use but soon I just found it limiting, and now it's mainly used for toilet browsing.

5rtytry56

I use either the one I'm now typing on, an Ideapad Z500 or otherwise a VIAO. Both have an i7 processor and Nvidia graphics card. The Ideapad has Adobe Premier Elements 14 on it, as well as being my GTA V platform.
There you have it.

Boom_Bap

Love my laptop, use if for almost everything. Also have a tablet which is mainly used for casual browsing or netflix.
I use my phone mainly on the jacks.

I'm getting rennovations done to the house at the moment, when that's done I'm setting aside space where I can get a decent PC setup going. It's something I've always wanted to do. I'll try to also incorporate some sort of dock for my laptop there as well.

HalloweenJack

Still prefer a laptop, much more comfortable for typing and reading stuff online. Mostly use my smartphone for texting, calls and quickly checking stuff if I'm away from my keyboard.

Smartphone's are a pain in the arse if you actually need to do something that requires concentration. It's just too small.

Maximus Alexander

I suppose anyone who is retired, unemployed, or a manual labourer might not ever need to use one. Most of the rest of us do.

Peregrine

I use my laptop for everything unless I'm walking around in which case I'll use my phone.

I couldn't get the things I need done on my phone.

kierank01

I use a laptop & desktop at work.

I have a couple of laptops and a tablet at home.
one plugged into the TV, with a small wireless KB for netflix/youtube etc
I have another, that I have plugged in and set to never go to sleep, and RDP into it from my tablet if I ever need to do something tricky, or if there is a browser incompatiblity on the tablet.

I did think about getting a lenovo yoga, but can't justify the price at the moment...I don't really need it at the moment, as there is nothing that I can't do on the tablet&laptop(s)...

Del2005

The Sidewards Man wrote: »

I have officially said soyanara to mine, bollocking waiting for them to do their booting, leads etc. No one needs a wire anymore.

I've a few of each and they all take the same amount to power up. The tablets and phone are rarely switched off, just stick into airplane mode to save the tablet battery. But my laptop and pc start just as fast as phone/tablet when they are powered off, apart from my work laptop but that's because it's a POS and is encrypted to death.

I usually surf on phone and tablet and stream to ChromeCast for Netflix. But if I need to do any work or buying I'll get onto the laptop, way too much trouble trying to get the information into most Web pages on a tablet and I ain't installing apps as most want access to everything

KungPao

I predict that within 100 years, computers will be twice as powerful, ten thousand times larger, and so expensive that only the five richest kings of Europe will own them.

The Randy Riverbeast

As someone who is required to do a bit more than use microsoft word, I still use a PC.

murphyebass

I use the iPad mostly but have a pretty nice laptop with a 17" screen I use for a bit of gaming but tbh I wish I'd got a far smaller screen to make it more portable and just bought a PC as well.

Im currently saving to build a PC. In the next year or two I suppose when I can justify it with the laptop not running what I want to play.

Was playing Skyrim on it the other day and it ran perfectly at high settings too! Didn't expect it to if I'm honest even though it's an older game.

I use the iPad for YouTube mostly and odd bit browsing. Nice and handy though to bring to the kitchen or bog or that.

First world problems eh.

riclad

Laptops or pc,s dont need charging everyday,
and have lots of storage,
eg 100gig drives .
i remove the battery from my laptop ,
and just use it from the power socket.
if you wanna do work do it on a pc or laptop,
tablets or for games ,apps, webrowsing.

Cienciano

I'm the opposite to you OP, I can't understand how people can use a tablet. A laptop does pretty much everything better.

Winterlong

Laptop all the way for me. Can do so much more with it and it is much easier to use.
The tablet gets used by the kids and by when when checking something quickly on a news app.
And the phone gets used when out and about. But I cant type properly on a phone....elephant fingers.

ScumLord

I have nothing against tablets, but they are essentially dumbed down PCs with everything more complicated than a volume button removed. They're ideal for people that don't know how to use computers because it won't let you do anything that might cause trouble.

If you need to do anything bar read web pages they struggle. If you really want to do any of the things computers are great at like, editing, gaming, production you at least need a laptop.

Agricola

Tablets are grand for light web browsing, youtube, small bit of typing. After that they are a pain in the arse for anything more complex. Reasonably powerful laptop, well optimized and clean is ten times better.