What means do you use for your web browsing and "everyday" computing?

Just curious what the breakdown is for everyone's daily computing tasks like web browsing, watching videos, listening to music, creating/viewing Office type documents, etc.

Pick what is closest to your average use.

EDIT: I meant to say PC = laptop/desktop and Mobile = Cell phone/tablet type device.

 

I prefer to do my web browsing on a desktop based browser since it displays the web pages correctly (I oh, so hate mobile web pages). But I have no complaints about using Dolphin Browser on my SGS3. It displays web pages in desktop mode without a hitch. Just a smaller screen.

I only do youtube on my Desktop as well. Youtube's app sucks something awful since it won't allow all videos on its servers to be streamed to mobile devices.

Music I almost always listen to on my SGS3. For some reason, my Alienware doesn't stream music as well to my Jays. Or maybe it's WMP's fault, as I use PowerAMP on my SGS3. Who knows...

 

I voted for 100% PC, but it's maybe like 95% to 5% in reality. Despite all the progress made in the past couple years, I still find it really hard, annoying, cumbersome, etc, to do anything on smartphones...

EDIT: I'll add that my mobile device is the LG Optimus G (first one).

 

agreed my mobile device 25% is a 7" tablet I keep in the car

 

I am probably 60/40 PC/mobile, so that went to 75/25~
Mobile mainly for web browsing, email, and alot of manga/comic
Personally can't stand videos/ work on a tiny screen. Office probably is ok-ish on a tablet but on a phone, can't imagine it ~.

Bottom line, my mobile devices are a 8" windows tablet(that stay on desktop mode:hi2 and a dumb phone.

 

My 25% is my Nexus 10. I do not use the phone for internet or other computing needs. I can say the nexus 10 is 95% or more consumption but I have on occasion used it to shop too.

 

I use my Galaxy Note 10.1 at work a LOT. Great for scribbling down notes, troubleshooting wifi coverage, downloading drivers and shotting them to dropbox, etc. Far lighter than carrying my laptop around.

If I am in the server room, 95% of my work is on my laptop or server (via rdp of course) and the tablet is probably streaming pandora for me. Or my Galaxy S3.

But I must have tunes while I work dammit, or a grumpy sysadmin I will be. And nobody wants that, do they?

 

Tough to bring down the ban hammer on a 4" screen, eh?

 

I voted 50/50 since on most days, I use my laptop/tablet/phone while on campus, but back at my apartment I'm mostly on my desktop. However, when I'm working my part-time job, it's probably more around 75-85% mobile.

 

Lol, I voted 100%, although I did realize just now I don't own a PC desktop. At home I use a lappy, university it's my tablet PC. I rarely use my smartphone, just for occasional calls/SMS and sudoku puzzles.

 

I haven't used the Internet on my dumbphone since 2011. I recently found out that I actually could do so in the U.S. without going broke, which surprised me, but it still wasn't enough to motivate me to set it up. Browsing the web on a 2G connection with a QVGA screen and a CPU that only barely outperforms the Zilog Z80 in my TI-83+ calculator is a pretty miserable experience. It was occasionally useful when traveling, so I might set it up again when traveling now that I know it won't cost me a fortune, but I can't see it ever reaching more than 1% usage.

I could get a smartphone, and there actually are some inexpensive ones. But I don't expect I'd use it much, and one of my pet peeves is people who start browsing their smartphones impulsively while socializing, and fear of becoming such a person myself discourages me from getting one. I may get one someday, but if so it will either be for a better camera or because I can't revive my in-poor-health dumbphone one more time. But even then, I hope it doesn't make me super-attached to it.

My dumbphone is capable of acting as a music player, and I've used it for that occasionally in the past. But it's almost always more convenient to just use my laptop, my desktop, or my work laptop (to which I've copied my mp3/FLAC collection), since the interface is more convenient and the hard drives have my entire collection rather than a part of it.

I don't have a tablet, but if I did it would run Windows on an x86 CPU and have a stylus. I formerly had one on loan, and aside from a lackluster hard drive, found it did its job pretty well and the stylus-drawing-ability was occasionally useful. But I would consider that to still be in the PC category.

 

I was of the same mindset with smartphones back when I had a dumbphone. And you are somewhat right about smartphone users starting to act more rude in social situations like you said. I actually had temptations to do so back last year when I got my current phone, but it is just a matter of self control. If you have a good amount of it already, it isn't too hard to avoid such behavior.

 

I guess I meant PC = desktop/laptop not just desktop... oops.

 

i have nexus 5 and unlimited data, the only time i use it for browsing is when im pooping. gotta read the news!

 

I voted 50/50, but wasn't sure of HTWingnut's intent fully because my mobile tablet is the Surface Pro 2, which is essentially an ultrabook notebook. I have owned a couple pure tablets, but don't find I'm using them much as I always feel it's a lacking experience from a true x86 tablet experience where I can literally do anything. No RT or Android or iOS is anywhere near satisfying to me for serious usage so I've sold them all or given to family members.

I do use my Note 3 (Android) smartphone extensively with work and find it's Wacom pen super useful for note taking during walkthroughs with customers or subcontractors.

Based on all this ha, if anyone still cares, I'd say I'm 50% laptop, 25% SP2 tablet, and 25% phone on average on an "everyday" basis.