What do you use your PC for?

[Ian]

Now, the title may sound silly, but it would be interesting to know what everyone actually uses their PC for

I'm on the internet almost all of the time I'm at the PC, and I'll play game perhaps 5-10% of the time. The rest of the time it's usually work or forums (or both ).

 

[G~MAN]

Well atm with my non-gaming rig i am basically on the internet and msn when at my desk with some music on

use it for homework, internet and music basically

As soon as i get my new gaming rig i can see myself playing games 99.9% of the time

 

[Me__2001]

mainly internet and listening to music, a bit of school work, image, music and video editing, gaming, and various calculations that i cant do on a calculator, some CAD work and a tiny bit of programming

 

[Chris Pickering]

I'd say roughly 75% work, and 25% pleasure.

The pleasure aspect containing forums, games, and various other internet activities. The work consisting of games, emails, and writing!

 

[Raje]

My pc is downloading media 24-7... and when I'm physically in front of it I like to burn a ton of stuff. And while its downloading and burning its great to chat with frinds. And if I have the time I play some games.

 

[gabriella]

Me....some work (documents/reports/emails/research) and the rest of the time - forums like this one, financial bits/checking and paying bills online and looking into things I don't know enough about!!

Gabs xx

 

[Cache-man]

I use my PC for quite a lot of stuff:
Listening to music (got about 30GB of MP3's- just play it on random unless i fancy something particular)
Managing my website/forums
Uni work
Browsing internet
and dare i say.... NO! you may not (edit by; mucks)

 

[Frodo]

Dare yes at least you admit it i think every body has had a look at porn on the tinternet at some point,some of it has the opposite effect though because it's downright nasty

 

[V_R]

Internet, (Buying stuff, forums and the norm) Games, Chatting to friends and Music are the main things i do on mine.

 

[muckshifter]

Ah, now then …

Home ‘entertainment centre’ … not including TV, as I don’t have TV, may get a TV card but then, maybe not.

Work!? … Not anymore, retired due to health, ‘though my brother keeps bringing me the odd PC or Laptop. (and boy, are they odd)

The Internet … fascinating ‘book’, may finish reading it one day.

Web Site ‘maintenance’ … Have set-up and maintained a few Sites, in the ‘old days’, all defunct now, including my own. Amazing what Dreamweaver could do.

Shopping … Internet ‘Window’ Shopping is fun … yet to tryout Tesco Dot Com, but may have to use that sort of service soon.

Forums … lost track of how many I’m signed up to … but can spend a day visiting the regulars and posting … PCReview is my home page (oh dear).

Games … occasionally one will get my attention, like Guild Wars, but I soon tire and I’ll pass them on to my Nephews.

Going to give Linucks another go … it looks promising.

… and that’s about it.

 

[timelordross]

well on my gaming rigs i ahve one for strategic games (usually before 8am adn after 10pm)
my other gaming rig is for fps games
and my non gaming rig is for sixthform work n research and msn
but i'm usually attached to my x-box on live

 

[Quadophile]

I basically do not use the computer for any sort of entertainment like listening to music (have a hifi for that) or gaming (my son uses the xbox).

What I really use the computer for is:

Internet: which includes forums, audio related websites, photography related websites, computer related websites, technology related websites, news sites,, occasionally shopping at Amazon, updating my own website as well as family photo site.

Work: Office applications,emails, and internet for shipping info, documents tracking, LAN based emails and documentations on the office server. CAD software for drawings.

Personal: writing articles and reviews, research material, digital photography related software for photo publishing along with articles and for general purpose photography.

No chatting on MSN, ICQ or any other messangers

Home Page : PC Review UK

 

[floppybootstomp]

Work
Games
Online Forums
Video Editing
Photo editing/scanning
Listening to mp3's
Making mp3 compilations to play in car
Watching DVD Movies
Chat (msn)
Telephone (Skype)
Work

 

[secret]

i owuld say: for gaming, surfing in internet and for work(word, ...).

and jeah now days i am also using it a my music system, because my old music system is dead

 

[CITech]

PC Uses

I think my PC has become a replacement for what people used to call a life! (Sad Git!)

Spend the days working on it, and the evening learning and researching. Not into games but admit to spending far too long on the web. Decent speed broadband has only just hit our part of the world so its still a novelty.

 

[Reefsmoka]

99% gaming the other 1% is the net .

 

[ukJAG]

Using Dive Planning Software to funnily enough.. plan dives.
Website Building
My wife is a Graphic Designer and uses it for that.
Music Storage for my Zen Micro
Photo storage/editing
RSS feeds
Skype
Internet - Dive Forum (Yorkshire Divers), MSN, book dives, listen to radio in the evening whilst on PC (Chris Moyles!), online Poker.
Some gaming - Freelancer, Half Life 2, Far Cry and Call Of Duty Online (awesome!)

 

[Jaguar]

Usual suspects, games, internet etc… but its main function at the moment is music production and recording.

 

[ladypcer]

I have 2 main pc's that I use for surfing, shopping, bill paying, forums, email.
I use my Windows pc for music (both purchasing and listening), I use WMC to listen to music on the "media center". I also use it for copying and printing out papers for my husband's work.
I use my main Linux pc as a backup for most of the same files I have on the Windows tower, and for surfing of all kinds.
I run Distributed Computing programs on all of my towers.