# Electronic devices owned **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 30, 2013, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/electronic-devices-owned/675111 "2013-11-30T00:58:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Longshanks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Longshanks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Longshanks)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2013, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/electronic-devices-owned/675111/1 "2013-11-30T00:58:17Z")
Out of the options shown which electronic devices do you own and what make are they? ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2013, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/electronic-devices-owned/675111/2 "2013-11-30T01:19:47Z")
LG Revere2 cell phone. Self-built computer. ---
**Author:** ![Achren](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/898d66/32.png) [@Achren](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achren)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2013, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/electronic-devices-owned/675111/3 "2013-11-30T01:21:51Z")
Non-smart mobile, 3 yr old gaming desktop, old Dell laptop I got from a friend, 2 yr old Sony netbook, and a non-phone Samsung Note i717 that I use as a tablet. ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2013, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/electronic-devices-owned/675111/4 "2013-11-30T01:43:45Z")
Between my wife and I, we have 2 iPhones, 2 iPads, 2 MacBooks, a guest computer, a media center machine, my monster desktop, and a “kitchen” laptop - all Macs. ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2013, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/electronic-devices-owned/675111/5 "2013-11-30T04:53:20Z")
Meant to say “all of the above and then some” Aside from one Windows laptop used almost exclusively for embroidery design, our house is all-Apple. Two big iMacs, two iPhones, an iPad and an Apple TV. ---
**Author:** ![Foggy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foggy/32/1082_2.png) [@Foggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Foggy)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2013, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/electronic-devices-owned/675111/6 "2013-11-30T06:29:32Z")
LG TracFone 11 year old Gateway Desktop ---
**Author:** ![chizzuk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@chizzuk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chizzuk)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2013, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/electronic-devices-owned/675111/7 "2013-11-30T06:36:50Z")
I have an iPhone 4S, an iPad 3 (just ordered an iPad Air), and a Sony Vaio ultrabook. ---
**Author:** ![Blackberry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecd19e/32.png) [@Blackberry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackberry)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2013, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/electronic-devices-owned/675111/8 "2013-11-30T07:10:54Z")
I have a dumbphone, a good laptop, a desktop whose birthday is today, I think it turned 9 (I got it on Black Friday [and yes I realize that’s not on the same day every year but this is a computer, they have different birthdays than we do]), a Nexus tablet, and I also have a Kindle 3 and a 3DS XL that I use only for Animal Crossing so that really was a frivolous purchase. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2013, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/electronic-devices-owned/675111/9 "2013-11-30T07:14:36Z")
If you’d asked me a month ago I would not have had a mobile phone. And if you ask me in a couple of months time I may answer that also. But right at this moment, due to circumstances beyond my control, I do have one to help me through said circumstances. I also have a desktop PC, with borrowed (and very slow) internet. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2013, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/electronic-devices-owned/675111/10 "2013-11-30T08:01:14Z")
Practically everything that isn’t steam-powered, when you think about it. Microwave oven. Digital clock. Along with desktop computers, the monitor, printer, modem/router; other devices. Dumbphone; cordless dumbphone; answering machine; medium-smart cell phone. Car. Fancy-schmancy thermostat. Digital thermometer. Wrist watch. CD player. “Pocket” calculator ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2013, 9:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/electronic-devices-owned/675111/11 "2013-11-30T09:15:57Z")
All of the above except a tablet. Everything’s Apple. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2013, 10:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/electronic-devices-owned/675111/12 "2013-11-30T10:38:07Z")
Smartphone: iPhone 5 Laptop: Toshiba Desktop: Dell. It’s connected to my TV with an HDMI table, and I have a couple of Xbox controllers, so it serves as the home entertainment center. Tablet: iPad 4 Other: Kindle Touch ---
**Author:** ![Blackberry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecd19e/32.png) [@Blackberry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackberry)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2013, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/electronic-devices-owned/675111/13 "2013-11-30T11:02:53Z")
> [@Blackberry](#): > > I have a dumbphone, a good laptop, a desktop whose birthday is today, I think it turned 9 (I got it on Black Friday [and yes I realize that’s not on the same day every year but this is a computer, they have different birthdays than we do]), a Nexus tablet, and I also have a Kindle 3 and a 3DS XL that I use only for Animal Crossing so that really was a frivolous purchase. Just realized that every single one of these devices is within 4 feet of me. That’s kind of weird, huh? When I’m home I normally keep the the laptop, tablet, Kindle, and cell on the other side of my bed (unless I have bed company, then they get kicked out), the 3DS on my nightstand, and the desktop is a few feet away from my bed (it just gets used for printing and MagicJack). Maybe I’m too dependent on my electronic devices… ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2013, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/electronic-devices-owned/675111/14 "2013-11-30T12:08:22Z")
I’ve got an Acer One Netbook (which I’m currently posting from) Instead of a tablet, but otherwise everything else polled. Others are company-issue iPhone 4 and Dell Latitude laptop, and an aging and slow Dell desktop. ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2013, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/electronic-devices-owned/675111/15 "2013-11-30T12:52:04Z")
I don’t think you are really asking about “electronic devices”, but about types of computer. I have a desktop and a laptop computer (and another very old laptop that does not work very well), but I have a whole bunch of other things that use electronics: landline cordless phones (three handsets), digital camera (2 I think), MP3 player, flat screen TV (and its remote), three digital radio alarm clocks, another much bigger radio (for decent sound), the radio in my car, and probably more things that are not springing to mind - and all that is not counting computer peripherals like the printer, mice, monitor, and the amplifier that drives the speakers. I think there is electronicy stuff in the controls of my cooker, too: it has an LCD display, anyway. I bet most other people have more things like this than I do, electronic even if not actually computers. ---
**Author:** ![Silophant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a698b9/32.png) [@Silophant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silophant)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2013, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/electronic-devices-owned/675111/16 "2013-11-30T16:27:46Z")
I’ve got a self-built desktop computer, an HTC 8X phone, and a Lenovo laptop that’s on it’s last legs. I’ll probably replace it with a Surface Pro 2 when it dies, so that’ll be a tablet and a laptop, I guess. Oh, I have an MSI netbook as well, somewhere. ---
**Author:** ![Sahirrnee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sahirrnee/32/13937_2.png) [@Sahirrnee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sahirrnee)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2013, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/electronic-devices-owned/675111/17 "2013-11-30T18:01:31Z")
Gateway laptop Galaxy tablet Galaxy Note2 phone ---
**Author:** ![LibrarySpy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f9ae1b/32.png) [@LibrarySpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LibrarySpy)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2013, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/electronic-devices-owned/675111/18 "2013-11-30T18:25:31Z")
Mac mini (2.7 GHz i7) iPad Roku - Netflix streaming and media server Kindle Paperwhite iPhone 5 No laptop. I just use the tablet. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2013, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/electronic-devices-owned/675111/19 "2013-11-30T23:51:44Z")
Desktop, self built, over a decade ago Laptop, Gateway NV53, has a bad DC jack so keeping it powered up is a PITA. ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2013, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/electronic-devices-owned/675111/20 "2013-12-01T02:21:50Z")
Phone claims to be a Samsung; don’t see a model number on it. Cheapest, most basic phone I could find - doesn’t even have a camera in it. PC is a five-year-old HP; again, no idea what model. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/electronic-devices-owned/675111.md?page=2)