On another thread, someone pointed out that one of the problems of distance learning is that systems are setup for desktops, while most students have smartphones, Tablets, and the occasional Chromebook andt that the family Desktop no longer exists in many places.
The question, does your house (or your parent’s house for single twenty and thirty-somethings) still have a desktop and if not when did it go.
My answer is that I don’t have one and never did since I moved out and my parent’s place (which is where I am spending the lockdown) doesn’t either and I think not sine 2007/8. (I left home in 2003, so not sure when exactly).
My Mom has one but I’m 56 so it doesn’t count. I last had a desktop in 2005. That was when I got divorced and I kept the laptop and the took the desktop. I also have a smartphone and a mini-tablet.
Four. One of the adult kids uses a laptop instead. 5 phones, but only two tablets. They would no sooner share a “family” desktop than “family” underwear.
My wife and I each have a desktop computer. (I’m at mine right now.) I like having the space on the screen that a stand-alone monitor gives me (compared to laptop/tablet/smartphone), and I find a full keyboard to be easier to work with than a laptop keyboard, let alone a smartphone.
I also have a laptop and a smartphone, and she has a tablet. So it’s not like we aren’t using other gizmos, but we still prefer the desktop for many things.
For instance, I really don’t think I could telework full-time (like I have been since mid-March) on a laptop. I really could use more screen space (like a second monitor), not less.
I have my own desktop - it’s basically my entire life, as I use it for work, gaming and just about everything else. My wife and kid each have laptops, and we all have smartphones.
I actually just got a new computer, and I was considering a laptop, but I reached the conclusion that it just wasn’t necessary. I have my own small home office, and I never work outside of home, so where would I take it to?
We have a desktop, but it very rarely gets used. My gf and I each have our own laptops, tablets, and phones. The desktop is for the rare occasion where we have an Internet connection but a wifi issue.
One ‘family’ desktop in the living room that runs streaming stuff, 10-year old games on, and is usually the Amazon computer.
My gaming computer, that is also used for streaming in our bedroom.
My wife’s desktop, that she uses for work and gaming.
14 year-old’s gaming desktop.
We have one desktop computer in our family room. We all share it and it’s in that room so we can keep an eye on what the kids (16 and 17) do with it. We won’t let them have their own desktops or laptops until they’re in college. They do their schoolwork on the desktop and on school-issued iPads.
Yes. Prefer it for in-depth searching and writing documents. Better than hunched over my laptop and hope the wireless printer connects when I need to print something. Sadly I think it is on its last legs (Windows xP) as I have been having start up issues.
All 4 of us have laptops, mine is the oldest but it was robust with an i7 processor. I also have a solid though older desktop that I primarily use. Son is in college, thus the newest laptop. My daughter has her college laptop. Then my wife and I have work laptops too.
Finally we have a cheap little refurb desktop in the family room hooked up to its own monitor, 65" smart TV & stereo. It is loaded with mp3 and stuff for D&D. The stereo goes to a 4 zone Amp so I can send music from whatever source to almost anywhere in the house and to outside. Most of the speakers then have their own rheostat to control volume locally.
Everything is Win 10, though I miss Win 7.
As I am stuck working from home, my work laptop is hooked up to a 23" monitor.