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Does anyone else barely use a pc anymore outside of work or gaming ?
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The very best phones and tablets don't even come close to the practicality of using a PC.
If I'm at home, I almost never use my phone or tablet. I even use WhatsApp on my PC. Typing on a touchscreen sucks.
If I'm at home, I almost never use my phone or tablet. I even use WhatsApp on my PC. Typing on a touchscreen sucks.
Everything I do on my computer is just a significantly worse experience on a mobile or tablet except for I guess reading/manga.
Imagining doing anything without a super quick Alt+Tab is insane to me, swiping a screen just doesn't give the control I need and runs like shit compared to just any scrap PC.
Hell my main PC's set up to two TVs, with the HMDI being split to my bedroom TV and livingroom TV in addition to my bedroom computer monitor on another video input, with as well an accessible USB hub extended to each room.
Imagining doing anything without a super quick Alt+Tab is insane to me, swiping a screen just doesn't give the control I need and runs like shit compared to just any scrap PC.
Hell my main PC's set up to two TVs, with the HMDI being split to my bedroom TV and livingroom TV in addition to my bedroom computer monitor on another video input, with as well an accessible USB hub extended to each room.
Yeah. I use my Mac for long format text work or academic research because big screen + good keyboard is just miles superior than any mobile solution and my gaming PC for the occasional gaming session.
For anything else that is not watching movies or shows (that's the TVs job), iPad i.e. I'm exclusively using it for my Mandarin learning needs, reading and note taking. Being able to comfortably change positions or whip out the pencil for different needs is great and something not replicable on a stationary machine. OSK is more than good enough for when I need it. But again, you'd have to pay me an awful lot of money to do any long format text stuff on an iPad. I don't know how some people can pull it off or even explicitly prefer it over a desktop at home.
For anything else that is not watching movies or shows (that's the TVs job), iPad i.e. I'm exclusively using it for my Mandarin learning needs, reading and note taking. Being able to comfortably change positions or whip out the pencil for different needs is great and something not replicable on a stationary machine. OSK is more than good enough for when I need it. But again, you'd have to pay me an awful lot of money to do any long format text stuff on an iPad. I don't know how some people can pull it off or even explicitly prefer it over a desktop at home.
I browse a lot on my phone but otherwise my pc is still what I use the most. For gaming yes, but also for image editing and whatever else kind of work I want it to do. I don't even watch television or even own a television anymore - my pc is the greatest entertainment machine and I can put it to serious work if I want.
No. I don't own a phone and I use my Desktop PC for the majority of my entertainment (youtube, PC gaming, PCVR, sound system/music via youtube), to the point where most of my consoles sit disused and my old entertainment system circa 2006-2011 is used by the rest of my family instead. My Vita gets my 2nd most use, and only for Tekken 6 PSP. Followed by my PS4, but also only for PSVR on occasion.
Only time I use PC is via parallels for weird old programs that never made it to mac. And for farming steam cards.
Yes. Even outside of work, I'm using it to read ebooks, code, and just browse the internet at times. Bigger screen, being able to multitask, better sound quality, etc. Everythjng is just better on a pc/Mac.
I use my tablet when I'm in the family room, but I mostly use my PC for surfing the web. 100% of all mobile websites are garbage. If I'm on my phone, the first thing I have to do is "Show Desktop Version". Then there's the chair, the headphones, the Oculus Rift, my guitar plugged into my computer, etc...