I’m moreso curious if laptop functions have been offloaded to phones. If you have a full gaming desktop, do you see the use case for an additional laptop? or if most people here don’t see the need for the increased processing power of a desktop, do you just use your laptop and a phone?
For myself, I mainly use my desktop, but I have a bunch of quite old laptops for tinkering.
Desktop for gaming or any intense programs, laptop for studying and other browsing I want to do on the couch, phone I use for most chatting at work and with family and friends and looking things up on the go and doom scrolling. Also, phone has lots of audio books
I have a gaming PC I use a lot and I have a Microsoft Surface Pro. I take my Surface everywhere and use it for everything when I am not at home. I also have an office and at the office I use a dock for my Surface. I use my phone when the job is small enough that I expect to be able to do that work in less time that it would take me to get out my Surface.
I take a lot of notes with the surface, even when working at my desk. I can draw a lot of the problems at work better than I can describe them with words and since getting the surface I have hardly touched my waycom. Being able to see my drawings on the surface while I draw is super useful.
I’m not sure how much of an outlier I am, but for me it usually goes
- desktop for more demanding games or if I’m playing with friends. Also use it for running dnd sessions
- laptop for writing, productivity stuff, or anything else where I don’t need a lot of power or if I’m on the go.
- my phone is usually used for scrolling or other time waster apps
How much I use each one really depends on the day
- I use my Desktop PC for almost everything when I’m home.
- Laptop for school or on the go productivity.
- Steam deck for playing when travelling, or as a media player when in bed.
- And phone for everything else.
My desktop is for home and gaming use. However I also have a gaming laptop which I bought for whenever I travel. That said, I don’t travel much… shrug
I actually ended up using my gaming laptop as a way of playing VR games in my room so that I have more privacy. Although I’ll still unplug and take it with me whenever I travel.
I also just recently got a Samsung Galaxy S24+ and a touchscreen display to use DeX mode as a tablet of sorts. Mostly for note taking when I don’t want to take my heavy gaming laptop.
I’m all over the place lol. I also work in the tech field. Computer Programmer. So yeah… lol.
desktop for home, laptop for not home, as it was intended.
Use my desktop for gaming, use my laptop for development and travel. It’s nice to be able to sit in the living room while someone is playing a game, or sit out on the patio while I work on something.
All the above. Full gaming desktop for editing video, 3D modeling, and hardcore gaming. Laptop for travel needs, home lab administration, and side business use. Steam deck for portable/casual gaming.
Yeah, I take my laptop with me daily for university work. I don’t need the huge processing power of my gaming computer. If I need to run some expensive code, then I put it on my 24/7 server, but that is rarely needed. The powerful gaming computer serves, well… gaming purposes.
Ever since I settled into the “laptop with mechanical keyboard plugged in, screen turned backwards, directly in front of my unused dual screen computer” configuration my desk has looked like the glasses of a fucking skekse. Why do I do this? Send help.
Get a USB c dock
Unless you really need some big GPU thingie… Laptops are too good nowadays.
No, laptop functions have not been offloaded to phones. Phones have simply taken time from real life interactions 😅
I do have a backup laptop, which does come in handy for the rare case of, for example, making a new install.
But yeah, i feel like a laptop is an awkward middle ground between a phone and a desktop. It’s not as powerful and has a small screen, but it’s also not as portable as my phone.
Granted if i travelled more i would need a laptop, and then i would have a dock of some kind at home to extend its capabilities (USB hub, second monitor, etc)
laptop is just a more expensive desktop but it lets you do what you’d do on a desktop from the couch, bed, deck, coffee shop. it all depends on your habits.
Phone: great for mindlessly scrolling or the odd comment.
Laptop: for actually getting anything done.
I’d use a desktop but sometimes I have to work from cafes or something so I prefer just using a laptop all the time rather than two machines
Im a gamer and only use a desktop. I dont see why I would use a laptop additionally.
I just have my desktop, which is an old laptop that never moves. If I’m anywhere else, I’m either disconnected or on mobile.
