Rank them in order of importance for you.
Rank them also in order of the time you spent on each f them daily.
- Laptop
- Smartphone(Ipod touch, actually)
Desktop and Tablet - Don’t own.
Desktop, phone.
The laptop is the wife’s and the tablet gets used only for media while traveling.
Desktop - Primary and most powerful. Including work, probably 10-12 hours a day
Smartphone - Handles tablet tasks and, well, phone calls. That said, probably an hour a day at most unless I’m using the GPS function. I don’t talk on the phone much and usually have a larger screen device (desktop or tablet) for its other functions. Still, for portability and function, I’d keep it over my tablet.
Tablet - Relaxing media consumption device and nice for reading in bed or on the couch. Also acts as my alarm clock. ~2 hours a day.
Laptop - Redundant (for me) when I have the other devices. I don’t need to take desktop style capabilities on the road. 0 hours a day.
Phone
Desktop on work days
laptop at home
tablet in between
I could live without my iPad. It was a gift and I like it a lot but I would not have bought one on my own.
I use the desktop at work a minumum of 7 hours per day, stretching up to 14 at times.
I use the laptop at home 6 hours per week on average.
I use the desktop at home occasionally, but would like to use it more.
I use my phone on the train to read books and listen to a language course (25 minutes per day?).
Of the three, I guess the laptop at home is most important to me personally, but obviously, I’d be out of a job if I didn’t spend most of my alert time on the desktop at work.
Importance:
Smartphone
Desktop
Laptop
Tablet (don’t own one)
Time spent (excluding time spent on desktop at work)L
Smartphone
Laptop
Desktop
Tablet
because my desktop is so old and flaky it’s a PITA to use. I don’t like working on laptops though.
doctor, lawyer, Indian Chief?
sorry
No desktop.
The other three are probably equal in ranking and usage.
Although I am eligible for my phone upgrade in a month and if I get a Galaxy note I may not use the tab anymore.
- Desktop. Essential at work, network hub at home.
- Smartphone. Always within a few feet of my body at all times.
- Tablet. Couch surfing, book reading, game playing.
- Laptop. Haven’t used my laptop in several years.
Fucking hell. I hope you aren’t salaried and get paid overtime.
Desktop, for work 75%, play/personal 25%
Smartphone, for work/personal pretty much equally.
Tablet, for play, 100%
Laptop, 100% for work, rarely use it, but need it for the few times a year I need to go out of town on business.
When I’m not at work:
Ipad (99%)
iMac (1%)
Laptop - both at work and home
Smartphone - pretty steady use throughout the day
Desktop - no longer own one
Tablet - never owned one
Got a desktop, got a tablet. Don’t need the others.
- work laptop - used throughout the day every work day, usually brought home with me to do some work there.
- home laptop & home desktop - used mostly for internet browsing and multimedia entertainment
- tablet - work-issued, but i get a lot of personal use out of it as an e-reader at home. Great for e-mail and web access when I need to travel light.
I don’t have a smartphone.
Desktop - primary usage, custom built (by me) Ivy Bridge with i5-3570k and 24 gigs of RAM. Dual monitors (27" and 24" LCD). Far more productive and far faster than any of the other options.
Smartphone - not used that often, but I carry it around with me when I go out. HTC/Google Nexus One
Tablet - I use it as an E-reader basically, for stuff I don’t want to read on my kindle e-ink. HP Touchpad 10" running Android Ice Cream Sandwich.
Laptop - I use this pretty much only when I travel, and since I pretty much never travel, that is pretty close to never. It is also so much slower and harder to use than my desktop. AMD Sempron 2ghz, 3 gig DDR2, 15", 128gb SSD
omfg.
and about “Ivy Bridge with i5-3570k” - dont know abt it, will look it up.
Thanks to everyone for replying.
Laptop
tablet (it’s #2 only because I was just given one a couple of days ago and I’m playing with it)
desktop – hardly ever use it since upgrading my laptop
smartphone – don’t have one
Desktop for work (8 hours/day)
Laptop at home/vacation (2+ hours/day)
iPod Touch third generation (30+ minutes/day)
Non-smart phone (maybe 15 minutes/week)
Laptop/desktop are pretty well tied for first. My laptop is my “lab” and “travel” computer, I’ll use it anywhere from one to ten hours per day. Average is maybe two to four hours. My desktop is my “home” and “gaming” computer, I end up doing a fair bit of reading writing and research with it, and in total use it similarly to my laptop. On weekends where I have to finish a lot of writing I’ll use it all day, other times I’ll just use it to check a few things or browse the Dope in the morning while waiting for the caffeine to kick in.
I have a smartphone, it’s a distant third to either computer. I got it about six months ago, and frankly I’m not sure it’s worth the cost of a data plan. It’s occasionally very useful when I’m away from home and need to look something up. But every day I really just use it as a combination phone and music player; really no different from when I had a separate MP3 player and an ordinary phone.
My wife has a tablet, I don’t use it much but occasionally I’ll fiddle with it while sitting on the couch zoning out to TV. Nothing much beyond some angry birds plus “why do I recognize that actor?” IMDB lookups. She uses it as a full-fledged laptop replacement though.