Anyone still use a desktop PC?

[3migo]

I use a desktop PC for personal use. I game on PC, so I built it myself.

I still use a company-issued laptop to get my work done, though.

[DON]

PC's are all I've owned. I can adapt it anyway I want whereas Apple is pretty much Apple only products

Use mine for work and gaming, but not a high powered gaming PC.

Currently replaying part of Half-Life which works with MS10. Sadly. Can't play FO3 with MS10

DON

[hobbit712]

I just got a new desktop. My old one was starting to show its age. I got a pretty good deal on a HP at Sam's. Also purchased a new 32 inch curved monitor. That's taking a bit to get used too. Very bright. LOL

[unsub073]

Laptop and dual screens for me. Docking station so I can use a "normal" keyboard and mouse.

[flyskate]

I still use my 27" iMac in my studio. It has 32 gig ram, double what my MacBook Pro has, so for very large productions, I find it useful. Also, my tired eyes like the large screen!

[jimyritz]

Haven’t had a desktop for a couple of years at home and don’t miss it… VPN into a desktop for work though—-when working remotely..

[SoCal C4S]

Have a Lenovo X1 Carbon Thinkpad and a MBP for personal, and a HP Elitebook and VPN to a Remote Desktop that is still connected at my home office for work. Just sold my iMac which had not been touched in a couple of years.

[gwells]

Also, my tired eyes like the large screen!

my eyes like that too. but i have a 4k 27" that i hook up my work and home laptops up to when i'm working. and my work laptop has 32gb of ram. wondering what i'll get to upgrade to in December when it goes off lease.

[flyskate]

Also, my tired eyes like the large screen!

my eyes like that too. but i have a 4k 27" that i hook up my work and home laptops up to when i'm working. and my work laptop has 32gb of ram. wondering what i'll get to upgrade to in December when it goes off lease.

Unfortunately, my lap top is capped at 16 gig ram, so iMac for now.

[ikkoku]

had macbooks for the past few years.. but just bought a m1 mac mini to play around with.

[apnk]

For the last two months I've had a Mac Mini M1 set up. I have no need for laptops anymore.

[SoCal C4S]

Interested to hear impressions on the Mac Mini. I have a MBP laptop that I barely use, and a Samsung 4K monitor that I use as a second screen for my work HP. Maybe I can just use the Mini as my main Apple base and get a spare keyboard and mouse… Hmmmmm.

[JP Chestnut]

Interested to hear impressions on the Mac Mini. I have a MBP laptop that I barely use, and a Samsung 4K monitor that I use as a second screen for my work HP. Maybe I can just use the Mini as my main Apple base and get a spare keyboard and mouse… Hmmmmm.

My wife uses a mac mini as her "big" computer. She has a wireless mac keyboard and trackpad. It works really well.

I use a desktop PC at work. It's a quad CPU Xenon based system. If I wasn't running large scale simulations locally, I'd probably use a mac mini and just do all system intensive stuff remotely on the university's grid.

[SoCal C4S]

Cool. I could sell my current MBP and buy a Mac Mini for that amount, so it would be a wash. Already have a spare wireless keyboard and mouse.

[JP Chestnut]

Cool. I could sell my current MBP and buy a Mac Mini for that amount, so it would be a wash. Already have a spare wireless keyboard and mouse.

It's totally doable. I got the department to buy me the hugest most expensive macbook pro available and the $1000 mini doesn't seem any worse.

[JBZ]

I’ve always had an office job, so up until COVID it was desktops for me. While I’d used them sporadically before, I’ve really had to adapt to the laptop over the past year.

I like the portability of the laptop. I’ve found a desktop with a good monitor, keyboard, and mouse is easier to use, at least for what I do.

[JP Chestnut]

I’ve always had an office job, so up until COVID it was desktops for me. While I’d used them sporadically before, I’ve really had to adapt to the laptop over the past year.

I like the portability of the laptop. I’ve found a desktop with a good monitor, keyboard, and mouse is easier to use, at least for what I do.

Two big monitors > laptop monitor, for most of what I do. However a laptop stuck on a docking station for “desk work” seems to be the ideal if you don’t need superior processing capabilities or upgrade ability.

Since I do most of my work on the cloud I’m pretty solid jumping from desktop pc to laptop pc to laptop Mac. Besides programming and file directories pc and mac have become almost interchangeable.

[JBZ]

I’ve always had an office job, so up until COVID it was desktops for me. While I’d used them sporadically before, I’ve really had to adapt to the laptop over the past year.

I like the portability of the laptop. I’ve found a desktop with a good monitor, keyboard, and mouse is easier to use, at least for what I do.

Two big monitors > laptop monitor, for most of what I do. However a laptop stuck on a docking station for “desk work” seems to be the ideal if you don’t need superior processing capabilities or upgrade ability.

Since I do most of my work on the cloud I’m pretty solid jumping from desktop pc to laptop pc to laptop Mac. Besides programming and file directories pc and mac have become almost interchangeable.

Two monitors are great for document comparisons and edits, even with redlining. Or for running property descriptions. It was something I never knew I was missing until I got it.

[JP Chestnut]

I’ve always had an office job, so up until COVID it was desktops for me. While I’d used them sporadically before, I’ve really had to adapt to the laptop over the past year.

I like the portability of the laptop. I’ve found a desktop with a good monitor, keyboard, and mouse is easier to use, at least for what I do.

Two big monitors > laptop monitor, for most of what I do. However a laptop stuck on a docking station for “desk work” seems to be the ideal if you don’t need superior processing capabilities or upgrade ability.

Since I do most of my work on the cloud I’m pretty solid jumping from desktop pc to laptop pc to laptop Mac. Besides programming and file directories pc and mac have become almost interchangeable.

Two monitors are great for document comparisons and edits, even with redlining. Or for running property descriptions. It was something I never knew I was missing until I got it.

I know. It’s so helpful for manuscript preparation. When I got my job they offered two 42 inch monitors and it seemed excessive. Now I wish I had three that were bigger so I could panel them vertically.

[andy tims]

Yes. An old Dell.

[1954Selmer]

Always had a desktop for gaming since about 1996.

Started building my own in 2016. It’s a lot of fun even with the occasional headache.


Really prefer the ultra wide curve vs dual monitor setup.

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[Selym]

I use a desktop PC at work. It's a quad CPU Xenon based system. If I wasn't running large scale simulations locally, I'd probably use a mac mini and just do all system intensive stuff remotely on the university's grid.

Matlab/Simulink? I had a ball working with that stuff when I was in school.

[JP Chestnut]

I use a desktop PC at work. It's a quad CPU Xenon based system. If I wasn't running large scale simulations locally, I'd probably use a mac mini and just do all system intensive stuff remotely on the university's grid.

Matlab/Simulink? I had a ball working with that stuff when I was in school.

I use matlab a lot for discrete numeric stuff, but sometimes I’ll use Mathematica if I’m trying to do something continuously or in closed form. Mathematica is hugely resource intensive. I’m also doing various statistical things in SAS, Stata, or R.

Ok edit: I wish I would have take a matlab class in undergrad. Having to learn it all on the fly sucks.

[gwells]

Two big monitors > laptop monitor, for most of what I do. However a laptop stuck on a docking station for “desk work” seems to be the ideal if you don’t need superior processing capabilities or upgrade ability.

powerful laptops are more expensive than desktops, but very few people are doing things that need more power than you can find in a laptop. we're doing high-res 3D architectural rendering on laptops at my office. there are a few very high end laptops that we share, but our architect are doing pretty high quality renderings in rhino and other rendering platforms with our standard cad workstation laptops. there are next to no desktop computers left anywhere in our architecture firm of 2000ish people.

as far as dual monitors, that's been my mode of operation for 20+ years. i even had two 20" CRTs at one point. most recently, working at home, i switched from a FHD portable second monitor (still great for traveling second monitor) to my 4K 15.6" laptop screen alongside a 27" 4K monitor. and damn, never want to work on anything smaller now. working on a stupid IT req at work where you have to justify the shit out of everything for IT if it's not standard, even a $400 monitor, so i can have at least one of them there. i have two FHD 20" monitors and it feels like i'm stepping back 5 years in tech when i'm working now.

[Jeep99dad]

We haven’t had a desktop at home in years. We have several laptops.
I also haven’t used a desktop at the office in years