2 Linux "laptops": Surface Pro 7 (desktop use), Surface Go 2 (sofa use)
1 Raspberry Pi
1 Windows work laptop
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Re: Ask HN: How many computers you got?
#42Many. 3x Desktops: * AMD TR 3970x // 256G DDR4 ram (current work machine; gentoo) * AMD 3700x // 64G DDR4 ram (previous work machine; popOS) * Intel i7 4930k // 64G DDR3 ram (previous-previous work machine; archlinux) 3x Macs: * Macbook pro (2020), i7, 32G LPDDR4x ram (though his is my employers and will be returned) * Mac Pro (2013), Intel Xeon E5-2697v2, 32G DDR3 ECC ram * iMac (2012), i5, 8G (nice to have as sort…
"AMD TR 3970x // 256G DDR4"
What kind of work do you do?
Re: Ask HN: How many computers you got?
#431 mac from the office 1 Asus zephyrus g14 for personal use, running Arch Linux 1 Asus (don't remember the model) laptop from 2013 running Windows. It was used extensively for my kid's online classes but is mostly gathering dust now. Maybe I'll set it up as a server one of these days.
are there any arch linux issues you haven't been able to solve on zephyrus g14?
Re: Ask HN: How many computers you got?
#442 windows desktop machines (gaming)
1 server for file storage (unraid)
3 personal apple macbooks (one is old)
3 work apple macbooks (advising a previous company and new one sent me two)
Some raspberry PIs
Re: Ask HN: How many computers you got?
#45Just a ThinkPad t14s. I travel a lot though, so no point collecting more hardware.
Re: Ask HN: How many computers you got?
#46Personally 3 Laptops. Really want a desktop.
Macbook Pro (2021 M1 Pro Base model), Alienware 15 i7 10th gen (Windows 11 + Ubuntu 20)
Daughter 1 has: Chromebook from school (wrecks my home network all the time), Macbook Air (m1) (Minecraft/Roblox Machine), Ipad.
Daughter 2 has: Samsung Laptop (Minecraft/Roblox Machine), Ipad - her assistive speech device and Youtube monitoring :)
Wife has: Asus windows laptop. Ipad Air (the new m1 one).
We also have an XBox, Switches, Playstations, Raspberry Pies etc...
Re: Ask HN: How many computers you got?
#47Far too many
- Thinkpad workstation laptop provided by work
- One desktop running Windows 11 (gaming/development)
- One laptop dual booting Windows 11 and Fedora (gaming/development)
- Surface Laptop Studio running Windows 11 (content consumption, light development)
- Surface Pro X (previous content consumption device. I'll sell it "someday")
- Samsung Galaxy Tab 7+ (mobile gaming, content consumption)
I also compulsively switch out my laptops/tablets on a yearly basis...I have a problem.
Re: Ask HN: How many computers you got?
#48I have a custom desktop PC and a Macbook Air that I actually use for work. Mostly the Macbook.
In terms of just tinkering during my spare time, I have a small HP server, about half a dozen ThinkPads (all in varying states of disrepair but working), a small desktop PC I never use, a Macbook Pro from forever ago that probably still works, and that's about it?
(Web developer)
Re: Ask HN: How many computers you got?
#49Too many, and yet not enough :)
* 386, 486, Pentium, and Pentium Pro systems for Retrocomputing
* PowerPC Macs with OS 9 and OS X
* Ryzen 9 Gaming Desktop
* Ryzen 9 Web Server
* A bunch of other x86 systems
* Rasperry Pis from the original to 4, with a 400
Re: Ask HN: How many computers you got?
#50Pretty pedestrian for HN purposes...
- Three desktops: a 2017 Intel iMac; and, on the floor and basically ignored, a 2005 Windows XP eMachines PC (took over from son-in-law, who no longer wanted it, because all I had at the time was even older and lamer) and a 2001 Windows XP HP (as I was saying).
- Two laptops: a now-unsupported 2015 Toshiba Chromebook and a molasses-slow, all-but-dead-in-the-water 2013–2014 HP Pavilion that originally ran Windows 8.0 (!) but was on Windows 10 before I unsuccessfully tried putting one of several other OSs on it.
- Two tablets: a 2016 iPad Pro and a 2016 (?) Amazon Kindle something-or-other that I got for virtually nothing out of sheer curiosity and almost never touch.
- Three phones: my 2017 iPhone X, my wife's 2019 iPhone X, and a 2014-vintage iPhone 6 that I most recently used only for work-required/work-app logins before I retired.