Sorta me. My only PC is a Surface. So technically a tablet with a detachable keyboard w integral trackpad. Sometimes, like now, I’m in an easy chair and it’s on my lap with its keyboard snapped on. Other times it’s in its docking station on my desk connected to an external full sized keyboard, external mouse and a large second monitor.
My 'Doping is probably 50/50 between those two but I’m trying to wean myself off doing it at the desk. Life’s too short to spend it sitting in an office, even if you’re just recreating in there.
I read some on my phone when stuck in a waiting rooms, etc. I will occasionally compose a 2 or 3 sentence post from the phone. But gritting my teeth in frustration the whole time.
If the OP requires charts and stuff, I use a desktop. But for those that are just words, or words with linked pictures, those are always my phone. For example, I banged out The Gestalt while sitting in a restaurant.
Oh, no, you’re not going to trick me into clicking on that, not after you referred to “some of my large, 1000+ word OP’s”.
I have to play soccer in three hours, can’t get bogged down!
Seriously, I love the mental image of Dopers sitting in a restaurant (or a neighborhood coffee joint, or a dive bar), banging out their replies or a fun OP.
Guess I’d pictured most of y’all hunched over a keyboard in a darkened “computer room”. But being out and about is cooler (I’m always on a laptop, but right now I’m on a lawn chair, gazing out at a park on a lake).
95% tablet, 5% phone. I haven’t had a desktop in at least a decade (although with my docking station, it is essentially a desktop in my office). But since it is my work laptop, I prefer not to use it for internet postings.
90% desktop, 10% tablet. I tend to be excessively wordy, and hate listening to the sound of my own voice if I’m using a speech-to-text option. I do read frequently on my LTE tablet during the work day, or at night on my kindle, and if it’s a short reply, or I have inspiration I feel I’ll forget, I’ll use those… but it’s pretty rare.
I used a laptop for a desktop for a while, with a separate monitor and keyboard setup. The idea was that, if I needed to, I could take the laptop with me. But the proliferation of phones and tablets meant I basically never took it with me. Heck, the screen wound up either breaking or having an internal connection problem, and I never bothered fixing it.
So, when the time came that I could finally upgrade, I decided it wasn’t worth it to get a laptop. I could get a much better computer, and I would be able to upgrade it over time.
I find that a phone is sufficient for the type of stuff I actually do when not in my recliner/computer chair. And, yes, that includes both reading and posting here at times. The resulting posts are less edited—not only the occasional missed autocorrections or dropped words but also I’m less likely to go back and rewrite or add things in-place for clarity, let alone edit down quotes. But I’m not sure they’re all that much shorter.
At the moment I’m on my back porch late at night enjoying the tropical breeze, pretty clouds, and stars with my tablet on my lap and a fine bourbon (Basil Hayden’s) to hand.
I’m often posting from restaurants or hotel rooms all around the western hemisphere.
And sometimes from my desk in my office at home. But not in the dark; that’s for looozers!!1!.
On this board? Yeah, I’d believe that. Probably also hard wired and running Windows 98.
I probably read the board maybe 75% on my iPhone and 25% on my desktop. Replies are maybe 50/50, it just depends on where I am sitting. If I am at my desk or in the living room/outside.
I commonly post with my phone but from time to time with either my desktop or laptop. However for whatever reason since SDMB changed the website, I have to use either the desktop or laptop to start a thread. It won’t work with my phone for whatever reason.