Computer uses?

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morningreis

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Well I was wondering what all of you people use your computers for. I noticed that many of you have more than one computer in your homes, and I was just wondering why and what for?

I have two computers, one is outdated, and not used much, and the other is used for internet and some gaming.
 
Well I only have one and use it for everything, gaming, surfing, videos, music you know the basics.
 
My main rig is mostly for gaming. I burn dvds on it since its the only one i have the has a dvd burner. My laptop that i have is used for times when i really don't want to carry my desktop around. It isn't good for gaming but it runs them good enough and i can do general things that i want with it. The other desktop i have isn't that good, but i have it to run servers for videogames and for my little brother to play on so he didn't touch my other ones.
 
Well, for my personal setup (modest since I'm 18 with a limited budge) here we go...

Personal gaming rig
Family's general use rig
"Beater rig" for visiting questionable sites, and aquiring material more likely to have virii
Home Theater PC
Personal home fileserver
I also had a separate game server, for small lans, but it has gone on to a better place now.
And finally my laptop for when i'm not at a computer

So that's 7 I suppose :D

Some other possible ones, I know my uncle has a rig strictly for video editing, along with one for media streaming only
 
workstation > animation and photo imaging (dual Opteron 244s)
NAS > storage, entertainment music video LAN Fileserver (1800+ AMD)
PH3ARNoEviL > secured browser box (1.2GH Tbird)
2 experimental Linux Boxes (900MHz AMD, 700MHz Celeron) eventually IDS

and thanx to Kyle
Prescott Test Rig
FX57 Test Rig
(to heat things up :p )

the single greatest reason to have more than one is crossparting ;)
and my idea of gaming is a Flash version of Asteroids :p
 
Well my main computer is my desktop, on which I do most of my day to day work. Internet shit, homework, whatever. It's also my mythtv backend. Then I've got a P3 800 box that is my htpc frontend, which mounts some nfs shares from my desktop so that I can watch videos and shit. Then I've got an old windows box that I use for my wireless gateway so that I can leech wireless internet off my neighbor(shhh!!). And then an old bp6 dualie and another P3 800 as a couple distcc boxes. Plus some other random computers which are just used as end tables and shit.
 
gaming, web browsing, pron... I dont know if theres anymore I can ask for from my computer ;)
 
Main rig, work and gaming. Old Insprion 7100 laptop for backup if and when I'm having issues with my main. Pile of assorted parts I'm hoping to put to good use as a linux or htpc box.
 
Gaming rig, surfing the web, benchmarking, running a website, writing reviews (soon) for a site, etc.
 
my desktop - self explanatory. pretty much everything except for games - just an athlon 1600+
sister's box - general webbrowsering, MSN, mp3s - p3-800
mom's box - email, webbrowsing - celeron 800
my lappy - self explanitory - p3-500
guest PC - downstairs in the "party room" (previously a basement suite - where I usually have a bunch of friends over drinking and such.. people like to hop on MSN on it and such) - celeron 500

sisters box runs winxp, all other on win2k..
 
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