We just bought a new computer. We are keeping the old one for the kids.
How many computers do you have in your home?
We have 5.
Hubby and I each have a desktop and laptop and the munchkin has a computer too. I’m sure we will eventually need to add one for the boy but he is only 5 months old and not that dextrous 
He seems pretty content to just watch his sister play Dora right now.
Two actually at home. I have three at work (in my work area) and my daughter as one at college.
I have 7 in my house:
My GF and I each have a our personal computers, I have a Primary Domain controller, a file server, a web server, a PC to “test” satellite emulation, and one set aside to monitor my wine cellar (not built yet).
I don’t have time right now to post stats of each PC.
MtM
I assume you mean PC. In the literal sense, we all have dozens of embedded computers in our house - in the dishwasher, washer, drier, printer, scanner, TV, VCR, DVD player, etc., etc.
I’ve got 3 PCs up and running, all networked at last. Two are desktops, one is a laptop. I’ve got a few dead or obsolete ones in the garage. My daughter has one at college, but that one has never been at home.
You people can count how many computers there are in your house? As a computer geek and ex-CS prof, I wouldn’t know when to start. I probably have a dozen that haven’t even been turned on in 6+ months. Parts to make a couple dozen at least. Plus stuff like my vintage (working!) Timex/Sinclair “computer”. I’ve got several switches and routers, KVM switches, etc. Just the basics!
We’ve six: two desktops, one server and three laptops.
I guess I’m a happy medium. I have 5 working systems and one old spare parts case. I’m building up my home LAN- at this point I have a 5-port hub, but I’m getting a DSL line, modem, and router for my birthday (Sunday.) Two of the computers are technically not mine, but I have full administrative access and control their use.
This one is a Celeron 500 that I converted from satellite modem to dialup, and I need a bigger HD- 8 gigs no longer works with everything I like to run. The odd two- my son’s and my friend’s computers- are also 500Mhz, but have larger capacity HDs. My wife uses the eMachines Athlon, running at 1.67Ghz and is the only one with Win XP. The last is my old Pentium 75Mhz desktop that my other son uses for AIM.
When I finish my A+ course, things will change…
- Two pC’s one with XP and 1 with ME (Both Gateways) One of these days we’ll netwok them but we’re both too chicken.
Two laptops. One with XP (Gateway) and one with '98 (Toshiba)
We recently donated a Gateway 2000 with '98 to a struggling Coven.
Three (two being used).
A 5-year-old Sony VAIO minitower that was our first computer - a P1, 266MHz POS that cost us $1500. My wife uses it for mainly online tasks. We’ve already outfitted it with the maximum RAM; I don’t think they even make the type it uses anymore. In a couple of weeks it’s getting a new HD and a CD writer, and upgrade from Win98 to Win2KPro.
At the other end of the network is my custom box, a P4, 1.7GHz machine that I had built to order two years ago with everything but the drives and PCI cards, tested and shipped for $349. It’s getting a DVD writer at the same time as the upgrades to the other one.
And somewhere in a box is an Atari 2600, replete with tape drive. Cassette tape, that is. I only ever used it to provide an NTSC video signal to my VCR when I was archiving audio on the Hi-Fi tracks, back before you could get a VCR that would generate its own sync.
Last year, I threw out an HP PC older than the VAIO, that was given to us by someone who couldn’t think of what to do with it and was loathe to throw it out himself. It served us admirably for a couple of years. By the time I bought the custom PC, I couldn’t have given away the HP to anyone, it was obsolete.
Anybody want a HP 4x CDRW that we paid $269 for? You can get a 52x one for $15 now.
PCs only (various commodores and sinclairs around the place)
2 x Desktop for working “properly”
2 x Laptops for day-to-day surfing in the sofa.
1 x Earmarked as a server for my new setup
1 x Linux playground
1 x Mame machine, waiting to be set into its cabinet when I pick it up.
1 x dissassembled laptop, a work in pro/de-gress
1 x Compaq Elite, complete with coffee table sized docking station. Full working order!
1 x 486, first PC purchased in the home, can’t bear to part with.
MrsIteki is now enforcing a “one-in-one-out” policy. I think the dissassembled laptop will be the next “out”. I rebuilt one to give to a young friend in order to be allowed bring home the Compaq Elite 
Working: 4, one old pre-G3 PowerMac in my roommate’s room(internet, email and Word), one Titanium PowerBookG4(my main workhorse & mobile recording studio), one eMac G4 in my landlord’s studio (for recording via MOTU 828’s) and one eMachines T2865 (Athlon XP 2800+ used as a file server & for backup).
Dead: 3, one PII350 (dead power supply, too lazy to replace - put hard drive in eMachines), one 486, both in my room acting like cinderblocks holding up shelving. One ancient IBM in the garage, probably still runs DOS2.0 but I have no interest in digging it out.
Damn, I’m a geek…
Currently there are five systems in my house, four of which are running and networked to one another:
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My main workstation, which has Windows 2000 on it. It’s an AMD 1.0 GHz system with 256MB RAM. I got this system in 2001.
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My old 200 MHz workstation. It’s now running as a Linux server.
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My mom and dad’s old 166 MHz system. I set it up with a 5 1/4" floppy drive to transfer some old files. Other than this, it has pretty much sat idle.
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My friend/roommate’s workstation.
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A 300 MHz laptop that isn’t currently being used or on the network. It needs the OS to be reinstalled. Once that’s done I’ll use it in my bedroom as an MP3 player and Internet.
Seven or eight. Not sure if the mainframe in the basement should be counted (it hasn’t been turned on in years).
Of those, only two get regular use.
Depends. If Dad doesn’t need his laptop for work, and I’m home, we have two. If I’m home but Dad needs his laptop, or if he doesn’t need his laptop but I’m at school, one. If I’m at school and Dad needs the computer for work, zippo.
Though there’s never more than one hooked up at once (I usually place mine on top of Dad’s and run it from there if I’m home, or just move his and confiscate the desk)
If you count a PDA as a computer - 3.
If not, 2. One laptop
AMD Athlon XP 1.9 GHz
384MB Ram
20GB HD
and one Desktop.
Pentium 4 3GHz
1GB Ram
20GB HD
Geforce 4 Ti 4600.
The PDA - HP Ipaq H2120 with a 500MB CF card.
Oh, and theres half a computer in the form of my pre-upgrade bits. (case,psu,amd athlon 1GHz, 1 gig of slowww memory)
4 3 networked and 1 pocket pc
Two desktop PCs (Athlon 2500+ 512MB / Athlon 1000 512MB). Two more if you count TiVo and my Linksys router, which both run Linux and are connected to the internet. One more if you count a Palm Zire 71. One more if you count a cell phone with web browser and downloadable crapplets.
I must turn in my Nerd badge. I only have one. But it is good for gaming (2.66, 512M, 9500pro)
5 if I brought back my laptop and desktop from school.
There’s one running linux, one my mom uses, one my brother uses, and my laptop and desktop here at school.