How many working computers do you own?

[Stoic]

This includes anything you have sitting idle in the basement or wherever no matter how old it is.

If I don't include my wife's work laptop or the kid's college laptops that only make it home during the summer, I have six. One will make it to my computer free sister soon though.

[AsahinaKimi]

1. I have two

Both desk tops, just incase one gets messed up with a virus. Have had two major viruses and was glad to have the old one, except it doesn't come close in memory to the current one I am using now. I was going to buy a brand new one, but will now have to save for it.

[Initech]

2. 3 - one laptop and two desktops.

The desktop is a Core 2 duo used strictly for work, the i7 desktop is strictly for entertainment (games, streaming video, etc) and the laptop is used for everything else.

[quakerboy]

30. What else is there?

[burrfoot]

3. 3 laptops,

if you count the one I'm obligated to use for work. It's not really mine, but it still looks funny when I have my good one (new one) streaming netflix to my tv, the work laptop open to my office's server, and I'm also posting on DU from my older one :evilgrin:

:shrug:

[Lance_Boyle]

4. Does it include phones? Cars? Routers?

Or does it have to be a "personal computer" running a general-purpose operating system?

[Stoic]

28. I think laptops and desktops for this discussion. n/t

[supernova]

5. Two,

Laptop and am old school heavy workstation.

There will be god knows how many more next year. My SO has at least two towers that he keeps movies on for his entertainment system.

[MorningGlow]

6. With a computer geek for a husband? Please.

At last count it was three Macs (and an iPod Touch makes four and an old G3 that needs a new hard drive makes five), three PCs, and a fourth PC in the basement acting as a server. So...what's that...nine? Yeah, that sounds about right.

WAIT! There's an ancient laptop in the garage that kind of works too. So...10. Nice round number.

[Heidi]

7. I'm not gonna say, except that we have more manual typewriters than computers. (nt)

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

15. And you have vacuum tubes too. What else, slide rulers? Linotypes?

Astrolabes?

[Tuesday Afternoon]

8. I have one work, and parts of another one, laying around, waiting on a tower.

[mike_c]

9. eight, counting the ones...

...in my campus office and lab. Six at home, one of which is a dedicated music server for the stereo system.

[seabeyond]

11. oh, forgot the two hubby set up as music stereo. one he made a wooden jukebox.

rollin eyes.

[seabeyond]

10. 7 or 8 at the least. but then, hubby in the business. nt

[WCIL]

12. The desktop I'm using,

laptops for my husband, son and daughter, my husband's old laptop that needs a repair, and my son's old desktop from 8th grade (he's 20 now). We also had a netbook but we gave it to my stepson who's computer bit the dust and he really needed it for work.

I'm a little disgusted right now - I didn't realize we had so many.

[Kali]

13. 1

[hobbit709]

14. working-1 laptop and 12 desktops

Parts to build about 3 or 4 more working ones and two old clunkers that are paperweights.

[The_Commonist]

16. Seven.

Plus 2 or 3 that don't work.
I don't throw them out, or give them away anymore.
Giving away old technology is more trouble than it's worth...

[sammytko]

17. Four and just gave away a netbook..nt

[Xithras]

18. Complicated question

I have six computers in my home. My primary desktop, my media laptop, a netbook, and two servers. In my office, I have three more.

I have enough parts to build three or four additional PC's if I wanted (I don't).

One of my home servers is a barebones VMWare Server installation that hosts an additional six virtual servers. Each of these is a standalone server in its own right, serving various functions on my network and development environment. On my primary work PC, I also have VMWare Workstation installed with an additional 12 fully operable virtual computers, though they are only turned on as the need arises.

So, depending on your definition of "working computer", I currently own somewhere between 9 and 31 computers.

:)

[GreenPartyVoter]

19. 6 desktops, 4 laptops. Husband is a computer repair guy so we all have our own.

[mcollins]

20. Four

two desktops and two laptops.

[Betty88]

21. 2 desk tops, 2 laptops and a mini

plus 2 that have been given to friends and are still working, if those count

[guitar man]

22. One

Of course that depends on how you define "working". :rofl:

I have a dual processor G4 Mac that I boot up and it works, it does what I ask with a bare minimum of fuss to keep it runnng.

On the other hand, I have two Windows machines that turn on, but it's always " I can't find my drivers", I need a shitload of updates" "I have a virus even though you updated the virus software two days ago".....oh no,BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH!!! I really don't call that "working"

lol :D

[Blue Diadem]

23. 6, but they all aren't ours.

My dh inherited my daughter's laptop that lost its ability to be closed when a hinge broke. It works nicely sitting on his desk. I use the desktop 'puter. Daughter and granddaughter both have their own laptops. We have 2- 10 yr old desktops sitting around the basement...slow things that they are. One was ours, the other my son left here when he got married.

[lukasahero]

24. 3 - we donated the 3 others we had hanging around

last summer to a computers for schools campaign.

My husband and I each have a desktop (we are both software engineers) and I have a netbook for some volunteer web work I do.

[Duer 157099]

25. At least a dozen, probably more

It's a bad habit

[Posteritatis]

26. About one and a third. (nt)

[surrealAmerican]

27. It would depend on what gets included in the category of ...

... computer, and some of the very old machines in the basement might not actually work.
Probably about a dozen, unless you include handhelds, in which case it would be considerably more.

[hunter]

29. My wife and I agreed a dozen was quite enough.

Don't tell, but I have a few more than that again.

An Amiga, some Ataris, an original IBM PC with hard drive(!) that cost the original owner a fortune but I found in the trash, some Apples, some macs, some Sinclairs, and my second home-brew of 1979 built of parts scavenged from my first...

[HipChick]

31. 10 laptops...3 Desktops and 2 servers...

[femmocrat]

32. One has a virus, but technically it is "working". So that makes 3. n/t

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

33. Two that work; five or six that don't.

[Generic Brad]

34. Define "computer"

Do iPods count? What about iPads? Or game systems? Or really nice calculators, for that matter?

[Lifelong Protester]

35. Two laptops, one netbook.

[Broken_Hero]

36. Two desktops,

We have our "newer" desktop, and we kept our older one as a back up.

[Bennyboy]

37. Counting my phone 3...

desktop, laptop and 3 phone.

[trackfan]

38. 3.

There's the old one, which was my second computer, from the late 90s, which also has the hard drive from my first computer from 1995; then we have the "new" one from about 2003; and now we have a "brand new" laptop from earlier this year.