# How many computers have you got in your house? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 6, 2016, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-computers-have-you-got-in-your-house/751387 "2016-04-06T21:29:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2016, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-computers-have-you-got-in-your-house/751387/21 "2016-04-07T01:25:37Z")
> [@Voyager](#): > > Computer will have to be much better defined for an answer. We’ve got three that are actively running (four if I power up my work computer) but that doesn’t count two smartphones, and two working but powered down computers, and it certainly does not count the computer in my smart Blue-Ray player which can surf the web, badly, or the one in the microwave, or DVR, or CD player, etc., etc., etc. > All of which are much more powerful than the minis I used in grad school. Something like this. Of things that we call “computers”, I still have an old NeXT in the attic, and maybe an old Apple or two, as well. Plus the Macbook Pro laptop I’m typing on, my netbook, an old Macbook Pro that I damaged last time I opened, but still mostly works, an old netbook that doesn’t hold a charge but still works when plugged in, a big clunky laptop I bought to be a windows computer, but stopped using because it was big and clunky and had a crappy keyboard and fidgety touch pad, and sometime’s my employer’s laptop is in the house (but not now) plus my husband has a few, and my daughter has at least one working computer, and I think my son has moved all his computers out of the house, but I wouldn’t swear to it… Oh, and then there’s the Kindle, and the iPad, and several cell phones, and some game systems, and lots of stuff that you don’t think of as “computer” but that has a more powerful inside than that NeXT in the attic, like pocket cameras. And less powerful computers what’s in my dryer or the light-timer. ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Pearse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/richard_pearse/32/13144_2.png) [@Richard\_Pearse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Pearse)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2016, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-computers-have-you-got-in-your-house/751387/22 "2016-04-07T01:48:07Z")
A Mac, a Windows PC, and a laptop. I don’t think phones and tablets etc should count but if they do we have five iPads and three iPhones in the house. ---
**Author:** ![Pai325](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Pai325](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pai325)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2016, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-computers-have-you-got-in-your-house/751387/23 "2016-04-07T01:52:24Z")
A couple of iPads, but we only use two, and three laptops, but I only use one. ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2016, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-computers-have-you-got-in-your-house/751387/24 "2016-04-07T02:00:05Z")
1 PC 3 laptops (though one of them is pretty much dead at this point) 2 Andriod tablets 3 Android phones 3 Game consoles ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2016, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-computers-have-you-got-in-your-house/751387/25 "2016-04-07T02:11:08Z")
I have an old 15" HP laptop running XP that I use as a region-free DVD player, a newer 15" HP laptop with Windows 7 as my “home” computer, and a 11" Acer laptop (W7) for my travel computer. I also have a third-generation iPod Touch. Oh, and a basic flip phone that I wouldn’t really classify as a computer. ---
**Author:** ![pidgeon92](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/50afbb/32.png) [@pidgeon92](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pidgeon92)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2016, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-computers-have-you-got-in-your-house/751387/26 "2016-04-07T02:21:13Z")
3 27" iMacs, one on my desk, one on my husband’s, and one in the kitchen that we use as a TV. 1 24" iMac whose graphics card is shot and has no display at the moment. 1 Macbook Pro 1 Macbook Air 1 iBook from 2007 or earlier 1 very old iMac, from 2004 I believe. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2016, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-computers-have-you-got-in-your-house/751387/27 "2016-04-07T02:27:10Z")
Up and running? Two. That could run? Six–mostly rather old and given to us for some reason. Absolutely total? 14 I can think of offhand. We’ve never really been able to get rid of our old computers (including people sent us to fix up). There’s only one day a year that they collect them, and we live out of the city limits, so we’d have to drive 'em there ourselves. I’m not including tablets (1) and smartphone/PDAs(2.5 working, 6.5 otherwise). Or toy computers like the Vtech Whiz Kid (1). That .5 is a java-based smartphone. It’s kinda in between the dumbphone and smartphone eras, so I call it a half-smart phone. The oldest computer is a 286 with some pins broken on the hard drive connector. (The probably dead hard drive was 20 MB and had Windows for Workgroups 3.11 on it.) The oldest working one is a 733Mhz Pentium 3 with Windows 98 on it. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2016, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-computers-have-you-got-in-your-house/751387/28 "2016-04-07T02:33:52Z")
The newest ones are the two in use: a Core2Duo laptop and a Pentium D 3.2 Ghz desktop. Technically the latter is newer, but they’re supposedly nearly equal in testing. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2016, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-computers-have-you-got-in-your-house/751387/29 "2016-04-07T02:40:39Z")
My wife, daughter and I each have our own desktops. My daughter and I each have our own laptops. If you count tablets, my wife’s iPad and my Android. ---
**Author:** ![China\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@China\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/China_Guy)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2016, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-computers-have-you-got-in-your-house/751387/30 "2016-04-07T04:51:07Z")
I won’t include smart phones. 3 kidlets all have a 2 devices each. Either a PC and/or a tablet. I have two notebooks and a tablet. My wife has a tablet and the “family” AIO. That translates to 10 PC/NB/tablets in my house. ---
**Author:** ![Merneith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@Merneith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merneith)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2016, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-computers-have-you-got-in-your-house/751387/31 "2016-04-07T05:58:00Z")
Two people - Functional: 1 Desktop 3 Laptops 2 Tablets 2 Kindle Paperwhites 2 iPhones 1 Nintendo3ds (it has a browser so it counts) Decommissioned: 3 desktops (at least 3) 3 Laptops 1 Closet of Miscellaneous Parts ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2016, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-computers-have-you-got-in-your-house/751387/32 "2016-04-07T07:41:12Z")
I had a clearout a while ago. I still have: 3 running desktops, 2 more in store. 2 servers. Laptop with dead battery; it still works on the mains. Ipad. Kindle Smartphone. Boxes of bits. ---
**Author:** ![kferr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/71e660/32.png) [@kferr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kferr)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2016, 10:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-computers-have-you-got-in-your-house/751387/33 "2016-04-07T10:16:19Z")
Work Dell laptop running Win 7 Pro Work Android phone Personal Android phone 1 Android tablet Current home/gaming PC running Win 10 Previous home/gaming PC running Win 7 that gets used occasionally Previous-previous home/gaming PC that was running XP, currently has Win 10. Looking to give this one away An original Asus Eee PC that won’t hold a charge and doesn’t understand my current wi-fi encryption ---
**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:** [April 7, 2016, 11:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-computers-have-you-got-in-your-house/751387/35 "2016-04-07T11:01:24Z")
2 laptops - one for me and one for my son 1 laptop that kind of sort of works that I want to get data off of 2 tablets - one that I don’t use anymore and one my son uses only when we go somewhere 1 smartphone that I use I Kindle - I have no idea where it is. It was a freebie from irk and I haven’t used it in years. A whole bunch of old smartphones I don’t use anymore but keep as backups in case this one breaks - one galaxy note 2, two or three blackberries. I should probably re-home them. My son has a bunch of game systems, I don’t know what he has but some of them probably have a computer in them - maybe, I don’t know, that’s his thing not mine. As far as I know none of my TVs or appliances have computers in them, I suppose I should care but I don’t. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2016, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-computers-have-you-got-in-your-house/751387/36 "2016-04-07T11:14:41Z")
2 PCs - one Win7, one Win10, 2 laptops, same systems, one Samsung tablet that I just use to play a couple of games. My husband just dug out his old smartphone - he decided he didn’t like the flip phone after all. And I found his ancient Blackberry in a drawer, but it’s destined for recycling, methinks. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2016, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-computers-have-you-got-in-your-house/751387/37 "2016-04-07T11:32:04Z")
One desktop running Windows 10 One laptop used just as a music server One Samsung tablet One iPad Two iPhones One MacBook Air Two kindles ---
**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2016, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-computers-have-you-got-in-your-house/751387/38 "2016-04-07T11:47:09Z")
4 Desktops (all Windows) 4 Laptops (1 Apple, 4 Windows) 4 iPads 3 iPhones, 1 Android 2 adults 2 high school children ---
**Author:** ![Balthisar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/balthisar/32/2825_2.png) [@Balthisar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balthisar)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2016, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-computers-have-you-got-in-your-house/751387/39 "2016-04-07T13:05:10Z")
Physical, hardware PC’s excluding VM’s: [ul] [li]iMac 27" Late 2014[/li][li]iMac 27" Mid 2011[/li][li]iMac 24" sometime 2009[/li][li]Mac mini sometime 2011 (mid? early?)[/li][li]Mac mini sometime 2012[/li][li]Zotac Z-box circa 2010.[/li][li]Zotac Z-box circa 2011.[/li][li]Macbook Pro, late 2013 or so.[/li][li]Macbook Air, sometime in 2012[/li][li]Traseron, a home built server that’s been through motherboards and video cards and storage arrays and so on since 2004 or so. Current incarnation is a Hackintosh. Nope, given the money I give Apple I don’t worry about the licensing.[/li][/ul] ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2016, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-computers-have-you-got-in-your-house/751387/40 "2016-04-07T14:32:08Z")
A Dell Latitude E5500 laptop (my wife) running Win 7. A home-brew “ship of theseus” desktop PC that I’ve had for about 16 years now. Current config is a AMD FX-6300 processor, 16 gigs of RAM, about 4 terabytes of drive space, and a ATI Radeon R9 380x graphics card. Runs Win 7 My wife and I both have Samsung Galaxy S5 phones. We have an old first-generation iPad as well, but I don’t think we’ve turned that on in the last 2 years or so. And if you’re counting computer-like devices, we have: 1 Xbox One 1 Xbox 360 (not used anymore) 1 Kindle Fire 1st generation 1 Kindle Touch (ca-2012 vintage) 1 Kindle Touch (late 2015 vintage) ---
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