How many computers are in your home and what kind ?
By pandaeyes
@pandaeyes (2065)
February 8, 2010 8:02am CST
We have rather a lot of computers.
I am a bit embarrassed that there are so many.
I have a desktop computer which has windows 7 and windows xp(I wanted to try 7 before getting rid of XP in case I didn't like it).
Then there is a laptop with xp on which I found and it needed mending.
This one is a laptop too and is running linux puppy . It was another broken laptop but works alright now except it wont charge, only runs on the mains power.
Downstairs there is an apple mac that my husband was given by his work,(they offer them to the workers or throw them away if no one wants them ,when they upgrade to new machines).
There are two more desktops with xp on that are not running as there is nowhere to set them up. They were the kids machines but they are away at university and have laptops there.
Then there is my husbands laptop running vista and his netbook running XP..
Lets see thats 8 I think and then there are two old Amigas in the roof.
oh yeah there is a windows 95 machine in a cupboard and a windows 2000 machine too that is in my daughters bedroom she keeps it as it has all her old teenager diary stuff on and noone is allowed to see it. 12 in the whole house! I think that is excessive even for us.
What about you?
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37 responses
@tdiamond33 (330)
• Canada
8 Feb 10
Wow, you have a whole lot of computers. In my home we have two computers and a laptop. I personally have a Compaq Presario, my daughter has a compaq laptop, and my son has a pentium 4 pc. Sometimes I have to be monitoring all three computers because I'm the only one in my household that knows how to clean and maintain their programs. I don't know how I would find all the time manage any additional computers in our home. My pc runs on windows vista and my daughter has xp. I personally want to switch to xp.
@pandaeyes (2065)
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8 Feb 10
I like XP better of the two, when my husband got his laptop with vista it was very frustrating as we all used XP with little problem and vista kept getting stuck with recognising the printer or the scanner . Now he is used to it, it seems like maybe there were ways of getting teh things to work but we just hadn't got used to it yet.
I stick with XP mostly but I'm having a go with windows 7 and it isn't so difficult.
@bystander (2292)
• Philippines
9 Feb 10
frankly, we only have three working computers at home -- two desktops and a laptop. i have three others, non-working, which are a carryover from a small publishing office i have since closed. of the three, the most used are one desktop and the laptop.
@bystander (2292)
• Philippines
9 Feb 10
so, it also happened to you -- intending to use parts from a spare unit, but the whole thing turns out to be the problem. i think, that usually happens, especially when technology upgrades come so fast...
@pandaeyes (2065)
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10 Feb 10
So far only one computer has pciexpress capability and I think that is the only one that supports SATA as well
@pandaeyes (2065)
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9 Feb 10
Thanks for replying.
I suppose you can always use the others for spare parts.
That is what happens with ours although it tends to be the whole machine that becomes the spare while anther is out of action.
@goldeneagle (6745)
• United States
10 Feb 10
I have three computers in my house. I have a Dell desktop that my daughter uses in here room. I have a Dell Inspiron B130 laptop that is currently in need of some repairs. The jack in the back of it where you plug the cord into it to charge it or run it on AC power is messed up, but I am about to get it repaired in a couple of weeks. I also have a custom built desktop from and company here in town called TECH ADVANCED COMPUTERS. They are the best computer store in town, and they also have a great service department. I would recommend them to anyone within driving distance of Pensacola, Florida. LOL
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@goldeneagle (6745)
• United States
10 Feb 10
I know a guy here in town that owns a computer repair shop. I stop by and see him regularly, and from what he tells me, the power jack is one of the most common repairs he has to make on laptops, no matter what brand they are. Apparently lots of people are having trouble with this.
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@pandaeyes (2065)
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10 Feb 10
The power Jack is so vulnerable. That is what I have mended in one laptop, it need to be unsoldered and a new connector put in its place.
On the other one that is mended, the motherboard broke too under the connector and so I have it wired with the connector coming out of the case in a different location.
@scififan43 (2434)
• United States
9 Feb 10
I have only one laptop computer in the house. It runs on windows xp. when I am at my gf house there is two, mine and hers. she has a laptop also that runns on windows vista. I did have an older modle desktop that ran on windows 98, but I got rid of it 3 yers ago. at that time there were two but now I have the only one in the house.
@pandaeyes (2065)
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10 Feb 10
You keep on top of your technology in that way.
We have a thing here called freecycle,where we can offer to give them away but there are quite greedy people sometimes who seem only interested in getting things to sell and I am not going to fund someones greed like that.
@faridmadeabillion (1127)
• Bangladesh
10 Feb 10
Well my friend. As a member of a poor family, I've got only one desktop PC or my own. It's loaded with Pentium D Processor, Gigabyte 945 Intel Chipset Motherboard, 512 MB of Ram (Umax), 80 GB Samsung HDD, Sony DVD Writer (Made in China) and I'm happy with it. 
@faridmadeabillion (1127)
• Bangladesh
10 Feb 10
Thank you very much for your feelings to me. Have a great day.
@pandaeyes (2065)
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10 Feb 10
WE also were very poor when I was a child so I can understand your sentiment.
I think sometimes that we get a bit too greedy for what we haven't got and forget about all the good things that we have got.
I am a bit obsessed with computers I think.
Most were not bought new or were given. For example ,the two laptops I have,were free because they were broken and I fixed them. My husbands laptop was bought for him by his college and the apple machine was given to him by his work place.
The Amiga machines were second hand (bought used) for my kids to learn on when we did lessons at home but eventually were replaced by a second hand pc because there was lack of support for educational software on the Amigas.
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@getbiswa2000 (5545)
• India
9 Feb 10
Hi,
I have a desktop computer. I've installed Windows Xp in it. Actually, I have been using this operating system for such a long time that I think I've gained some expertise on it. I've even written couple articles on windows xp in my blog www.selflearners.wordpress.com and I am certainly happy with the customizations I have made in my PC. I have a Nvidia Geforce motherboard and 1Gb DDR2 Ram, which I think is insufficient. I have 160Gb SATA HDD. I don't have provision for ATA HDD in my new motherboard. I have blown up several motherboards before buying this one. The OTHERBOARDs were from MSI, Intel etc. They didn't last very long. May be I am one heck of a motherboard molester. I wish I could upgrade my computer now. I want to have a high resolution graphics card with high capacity RAM. I also want another slot of RAM of 2GB and a few other gadgets. Though I can't buy them due to some reasons now, but I certainly will not abandon hope.
Thanks for starting this interesting discussion
God bless you
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@getbiswa2000 (5545)
• India
9 Feb 10
Hello,
Overclocking the motherboard means higher voltage supply to RAMs. It may reduce the longevity of primary memories, but in short term it certainly shows considerable improvement in overall performance. There are some motherboards, for example older Intel, had locked this feature for safety. But this new motherboard I have totally supports this feature, though I haven't tried it.
Take care
@pandaeyes (2065)
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9 Feb 10
I think it depends what you want to use the computer for.
I have 2gb in this but it was already there when I got it(laptop that was broken,now running linux puppy).
The Memory does make for a quick upgrade.
Do you overclock the motherboard?
I have done that with one other machine and it was not bad for a while but would sometimes revert to its default setting for no apparent reason.
@thebestmom (1104)
• Philippines
11 Feb 10
wow, you indeed have a lot. why dont you sell the others and you can make money out of them. we are 5 in the family, and we have 2 desktops and 2 laptops. but all of us wants to use the desktops than the laptops.
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@pandaeyes (2065)
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12 Feb 10
Most are old and not worth much .they are worth more as spares to us than as a complete machine to someone else.
I like the laptops better but they have less processing power for graphics.
@jezzmay (1845)
• United States
10 Feb 10
Yes, you are blessed with many computers. Right
now I only have the one, I am on now. It is a
laptop with XP on it. I would like to have a
desk top, but can not afford one right now. I
gave my old desk top to my son.
Happy posting.
@pandaeyes (2065)
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10 Feb 10
Yes we are lucky.
I think we wouldn't have so many if we did not put most of them together ourselves.
We passed a few along to neighbours in the past for their children but they were earlier on and so were game type machines rather than PC's.
@ank_47 (1959)
• India
11 Feb 10
wow too many computers in ur house. i have only one in house and that is laptop of dell with windows xp and i using it from 3 years. my husband also uses this house after he comes home. but he will have less time to see this laptop.
i will be on this most of the time in house ,as i am housewife.
my husband have one desktop computer given by his office people,he uses it in office only and he never brings it to house.mostly he will do work there and if he has any other work ,he do after he comes home with this laptop and he will copy the matter to his usb.
@pandaeyes (2065)
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11 Feb 10
That sounds like a good reliable machine.
I like XP,it works quite well .
I am a housewife too ,I like to mend electrical things and I work in our garden growing vegetables too but I don't have an outside paid job anymore.When I did work outside the house, it was with photographs and mostly it was in the art department not with cameras or printing.
@1anurag1 (3576)
• India
13 Feb 10
I have only 1 pc and i have installed windows xp and linux in this.
but most of the time i use xp.
I had earlier another desktop but by the time it got slower and i had to upgrade my system.i have now a core2duo with 2gb of RAM. now again it seems slower in comparission of the systems available today.
but technology is moving rapidly and i can not buy a system daily.
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@pandaeyes (2065)
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13 Feb 10
that's true the speed of development is very fast.
Linux is an excellent operating system and there are lots of versions so it is easier to upgrade by trying different versions than by adding hardware.
@pandaeyes (2065)
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10 Feb 10
Yes that's true .
Although here today there is just the laptop turned on and mostly there are 2 laptops on, or a laptop and a net-book. Laptops use far less electricity.
I think everyone will have small pcs or laptops as time goes by because they use less power.
@atv818 (1980)
• United Arab Emirates
14 Feb 10
In my house, we have one that is sooo slow and often hangs up. It is frustrating especially when myLotting so I always ran to my mom's house (live right beside us)so that I can use a faster one. I hope that I can save enough through myLotting money to buy a new computer.
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@pandaeyes (2065)
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14 Feb 10
if it is slow but it is running windows, you could try a linux operating system on it and it would whiz along.
I run puppy linux on mine and it is speedy.
Lucky you have your mum so nearby.
@janairah (67)
• Philippines
9 Feb 10
i have 3 computers,2 desktop which is windows xp sp3 professional,windows xp ice,and a loptop vista. they all dual core, my desktop have asus and redfox mother board,2 gig ram,250 gig hard disk with turbo charge,64bit video card.and its almost like with my loptop.my desktop was located in my room and in my terrace,and my loptop was on my room too
@pandaeyes (2065)
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9 Feb 10
Only two of ours are dual core.
The newest desktop is quad core but really I don't think it is that speedy.
I have heard that it depends on whether the software is written to facilitate the other cores.
The dual cores are definitely faster than the single chips with the same speed processor.
@pandaeyes (2065)
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9 Feb 10
Laptops are very handy!
We had to mend my nieces laptop, she needed it for school,luckily it was only a few files needed updating after all. Her little brother uses their desktop for practicing his maths .
@Ingkingderders (3832)
• Philippines
9 Feb 10
Wow.. that is a lot!! Here in our apartment, there is one desktop, for my brother, and where our router is connected, then I have my own netbook, and my sister has her own laptop from work.. so that's one is to one. Hehehe. It's a big dent in our electric bill, but we can manage, and we don't leave any of the computers open if there is noone using them.. so there's no downloading overnight or any of those things. ehehee.
@pandaeyes (2065)
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9 Feb 10
We don't have any running overnight either.
The desktop probably takes the most power.
I think my laptop is about 11 volts and the desktop is something like 240v.
@calai618 (1773)
• Philippines
9 Feb 10
What I am using right now is a laptop running on vista. I also have a desktop with XP in it. We recently tried buying this netbook off of alibaba which costs around 100dollars and it runs on Windows CE (Yeah, I didnt know there was that OS lol). It's kinda cool and cute since it's really small. I also have a sony vaio laptop which needs some mending because its screen kind of flickers and sometimes there isnt anything on the monitor. :D
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@pandaeyes (2065)
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9 Feb 10
You can most likely attach the Sony to an outside monitor instead if the screen is faulty.
My son just got a net-book, he is dyslexic so he is allowed to take a computer to lectures but the laptop was too big too carry around everywhere (19"),the little net-book is only 10", much more convenient. The batteries last much longer too.
@Adam2010 (29)
• China
10 Feb 10
Oh ,ok.it is my turn.
I have three computers.
One is desktop with Amd maxthon's CPU and the hard disk is 1TB,4GB memory.
the other two is labtop.
my OS is Vista ,windows server 2003 enterprise,Linux
oh you have downstairs .that is means :you have two floors .
In china if you have downstairs that is means :you are a richman.at least you are not poor.
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@pandaeyes (2065)
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10 Feb 10
I do feel a bit like a rich person,we always lived in just one storey when I was a child and at one time we were a family living all in one room of a house with other families in the other rooms.
I havent heard of maxthon before. 1TB is pretty big.My biggest harddrive is about 250gb I think.
@pandaeyes (2065)
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9 Feb 10
I guess your gaming computer has a hefty graphics card.
My desktop is a nice machine but it only has on-board graphics so wont handle very graphic games.
I hardly ever play them anyway so I just do without.
@anaraith (33)
• New Zealand
9 Feb 10
We have 3 that are running at the moment. One of Windows 7, one on XP and one on Linux. They are all high end computers (or were when they were purchased). Our family loves our computers so we also have various old screens and parts scattered around the house.
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@pandaeyes (2065)
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9 Feb 10
I like the lcd monitors the best, the CRT models are so space invasive.
We have 2 CRT I think now, one in my daughters room and one I can even remember where it is.
The others got given away to people.LCDs still need space of course but they can fit on the table with the keyboard if needs be.
