Comments on: How Many Computers Do You Own?

By: Tony

Tony — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 03:32:42 +0000

There are 5 units in our house, My son has a laptop and a gaming desktop, my wife has a laptop, and I primarily use my work laptop while occasionally getting a flicker of life out of my old personal laptop. These are all running on Windows 11. Meanwhile we’re all becoming more proficient at doing computer stuff on our phones, but I don’t think I’d ever make a complete transition.

By: Terry Hollett

Terry Hollett — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 15:45:33 +0000

I have 3 desktops hooked up. 2 in mothballs. 1 laptop hooked up and 3 in mothballs. Bearing in mind that most of my tech is from the Stone Age. 🙂

By: Harry

Harry — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 03:20:29 +0000

I have 2 PC’s and 2 laptops and would not have it any other way. There are many things I cannot do, or hate to do, on a mobile phone. Not the least of it being my eyesight. Nothing replaces seeing everything clearly and functionally on my two large monitors. The mobile will never replace them. NEVER!

By: Robert L. Taylor

Robert L. Taylor — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 01:48:03 +0000

I’ve given away more computers and laptops then I currently own now, and I’m counting around 8 or so in the house now, I fix’em up and give them to people in need or who I think need one.

By: Mindblower

Mindblower — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 13:24:35 +0000

Well Marc, I also have 6 computers, one being a laptop, Mindblower!

By: Marc Thomas

Marc Thomas — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 10:51:14 +0000

Thanks for all your comments and I’m glad I’m not the only one with an army of computers!

By: Adelaide

Adelaide — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 17:11:13 +0000

There are six PC’s I actively maintain, ranging from a venerable Acer D250 32-bit (slow, but good for use when traveling — it’s totally depreciated 😉 to a more modern Dell with i7 CPU. All are running Ubuntu, with two dual-booting to Windows on the rare occasion I need that OS. (If future Ubuntu releases require snap, I’ll swithc to another Linux distro.)

There are also ZX81, Atari 800XL and Atari ST machines, which have been relegated to the closet. At one time, I’d purchased about a dozen 600 XL’s, 800XL’s and 130XE’s to equip a public-school classroom, where students used them for school publications, learning games, etc. Most of those 8-bit PC’s were bought for US$50 or so.

By: Ed

Ed — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 13:19:29 +0000

I have 6 pc’s in my household , all desktops, I don’t fancy laptops because everyone I had ever owned wound up with cooling issues sooner or later and I really do not need to travel with my data anyway.

All 6 pcs were previously Windows operating systems which now 5 are Linux and 1 Windows I have to keep for proprietary software reasons at work, when I retire , that one will go Linux also.