Are there any advantages to having a laptop, iPad, iPhone and Android tablet? Or too excessive?
Sfariah D
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Wondering if there is any advantage to having a laptop computer, an iPad, an iPhone, an inactive Motorola and an android tablet. Or is that too excessive?
I got them all for what ever reason. I like my laptop for DSing or Posering. I am debating on keeping the Motorola phone. Guess my reason I am keeping it so far is that I can use it if I drop my iPhone again and can use the Motorola until I get the iPhone fixed again.
Guess my question is that is there any advantage to having an iPad and android tablet at same time? I do know that there is at least one game currently on android but not iPad.
I might be over thinking it but do others have a similar situation as me? A lot of technology vs barely any at all?
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Nope, have whatever you want...
Steve.
But think seriously about the difference between what you want and what you need.
Personally that would be overkill for me.
I don't really see why you would need two tablets. I have one laptop, one tablet and one phone. I mean. That's enough.
Personally, I would toss everything but the laptop and the iPhone.
I don't need two iPad tablets, but I have them because my old one keeps on trucking. I just leave the older one in another room. I usually give older tech away, but don't think having one back up device is a bad thing.
I have 3 iPads bought over a period of many years. Some apps work on the first one but not the newer updated ones. Keep the iPad at home and use the lower end tablet (assuming it's lower end than the iPad) for throwing in your bag to use outside the home, in waiting rooms, for meeting, etc... Unless it's over-cluttering your home, why not keep all of them?
I have a friend with an iMac, multiple laptops, old touchscreen harddrives, Kindle-type readers, an android tablet with keyboard, a phone with a chicklet keyboard, and one of those goes back to 1999, there may be more, they seem to replicate. And they all talk together. If you use them, you are happy, and they are not costing you money on your phone bill or anything, truck on. Like Wonderland said.
The best answer to your question is another question - what purpose does each device serve that the others can't?
I have a desktop, a Surface tablet, a Kindle and an Andriod phone. The desktop provides processing power that the others can't. The Surface (with keyboard) allows me to work remotely. I like to read and, although I often use the tablet for books, it doesn't fit in my purse like my Kindle so it's not convenient to carry around just in case I can squeeze in a bit of reading time. And the phone, well, of course I need my phone but the screen is a little too small for me for comfortably reading books.
If the iPad and the Android tablet each do something the other can't (OS specific apps, connectivity, whatever), and if there isn't a pressing need to give one up (family/friend desperately needs a device), then keep them both.
I have a desktop, two laptops, an android tablet, three iphones (two unused in case I lose my main), and an android phone, unused. I like to be prepared. And all this on a boat not much bigger than most people's hallway. So no, what you have is not overkill. Photo is an iteration back of the desktop...have nice big screen now and a new case and innards. That laptop has also been replaced.
I use many devices. I got 1 tablet and several androids. Games are getting big these days. So can only put so many on each.
If you use your gadgets and want to hold onto older ones as backups, there's no harm in that. I have two Android tablets I don't use anymore (battery is bad in the oldest one.). I tend to replace my old devices when they no longer get OS updates. I've had a lot of Android phones over the years that have either broke, been passed on to others or traded in for new ones. The three devices I use now are a desktop computer, a pixelbook and a Pixel 2 phone. I use all three every day, and for me, that's what works.
books take up more room
I got rid of literally thousands of books over the past 10 years because my house was full of bookshelves and silverfish and dust
mostly fiction books and out of date encyclopaedias
we are in a digital age, we don't need home libraries
I have a desktop for rendering; a 12.9" ipad Pro 2 with Photoshop for drawing and postwork; and an iPhone 7 plus for making and receiving phone calls. Not excessive, but just about right I think.
Just food for thought, you could stream your more powerful desktop to a tablet or laptop and work on PC stuff from the comfort of a couch, bed, or whatever while still having the power of a proper PC to work and render stuff. There are several remote play apps out there, including free ones, that will work over your wifi.
So I can use my desktop for everything, while being anywhere in my home on any of my devices. For Daz Studio, it probably would be good to have a mouse, but Androids can accept USB mice by using OTG cables. And even though my laptop is total piece of junk, I can use it to stream Daz Studio and render to my heart's content. And since I am only streaming, the laptop isn't doing any real 'work' to make it get hot in my lap if I actually use my laptop in my lap.
I've had multiple tablets over the years and generally I hate them (along with phones, but they are a necessary evil...lol). The only tablet that I own that I actually use is my ipad. I have a laptop (multiples actually) AND a desktop and I use them both. Having said all that, keep what you want, get rid of what you don't use - or not. Why not? Life is short ;).
Laurie
If you have use for it, why not? I currently use six kindles... one of the old keyboard type (which has free wireless service forever from AT&T), a newer paperwhite kindle specifically for reading outdoors in bright light situtautions like the beach, and then four Kindle Fires... a high end one with a super high res screen, a lager 10" one I bought specifically for reading comics, magazines, art books and tutorials, and then one of the el-cheapo basic 8" models that I use for traveling.in places where I don't want to risk the more expensive ones. I also have a high-end gaming laptop with an 18" screen and a 1070 graphics card, but depending on where I'm going, I also have an el cheapo netbook that will fit inside a hotel safe but still has a full keyboard. On top of that I have a top of the line android smart phone and a cheaper one that's been region-unlocked so that it works just about anywhere with the right sim card. No Apple products, though.
It is good that we are all different. I live with thousands of books (and probably silverfish, but they keep out of my way). I can't see the dust for the dog hair. I don't like disposing of older tech, though sometimes I pass it on. I'll probably keep my old high-end cameras for ever, even though I can't see myself ever going back to film. Luckily my insanity doesn't bother anyone else.
Well, seeing all the confessions here, and despite my earlier comment about "wants and needs"...
Hi, my name is LG and I'm 'puterholic. I currently have an android phone, a laptop, two quite useable Win10 desktops, a DAZ machine(a super desktop), and two functional, but off-line, WinXP desktops. Since retirement I only need the phone and one desktop but somehow I've convinced myself that more computers satisfy an itch and they give me something to do and some place to spend my money keeping them happy.
I don't know if other folks need them... iPads are actually kinda useful now that they can use a real stylus (Apple Pencil), I draw on mine and there are a couple of useful sculpting apps, which if you figure out a good workflow, you can actually make some cool stuff... nothing Zbrush, but probably one notch above Sculptris... using the pencil stylus directly on the screen is way more natural than a PC drawing tablet.
A laptop allows me to model stuff when I'm away from home, so to me that's kinda good...
A desktop is definitely still in my opinion necessary to do real 3D work efficiently, and for the most part, as long as it's not an all-in-one machine, you can continue to upgrade and repair them way easier than a laptop, so you get more mileage out of your money right there.
Too me they are useless.
Your experience is unique to you, no matter how similar it is to other people.
well, if you're publishing ebooks you can see what it looks like across devices.
i just ordered myself my very first tablet for my bday present to myself. a kindle fire 7. excited about it. i hope it comes with a read text out loud feature. and i hoping to see my kindle editions before i publish them,
After the bombs fall, books might be useful. But one could at least burn books for heat. Especially the fiction.
lot of gadgets, lot of money, lack of happiness, IMHO.
I had a lot of videogame consoles, from Atari to Xbox One, only gave me transitory happiness, after that they are just a pile of plastic and electronics acumulating dust.
i still mourn super nindento. sometimes feel urges to slap ground for bananas
Dreamcast for me, my favorite Console.
Laptop - check.. used to surf the web while sitting on the couch watching TV and to stream videos and NFL football to the TV via an HDMI cable...
Smartphones, tablets etc - none of them. Never had the need for them either. I can live without having these without any problems, and that comes from someone, who started using a computer - C64 - in the early '80s
For rendering and most other stuff concerning the Internet, Rendering, Games and whatever I've got my PC
my phone is the cheapest thing I could get and I only make phonecalls and text messages on it
then I struggle
because of my far eyesight and big clumsy fingers
I miss the Nokia phones with buttons, hate tiny touchscreens but my required SIM card no longer supports my perfectly good Nokias
the ipad is much much bigger and used a lot
if I had good reading eyesight and delicate fingers I probably would use an iPhone instead but it would be useless to me as I am physically