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Little of everything. First things that come to mind are...

-downloading and burning audio content (legally!!)
-"digital darkroom": editing and printing photos
-research
-not as much gaming as I used to (haven't fired up a game in months), but I'm sure it'll see some gaming time
-email
-porn
-streaming audio (Sirius, etc)
-burning data to discs/archiving
-streaming tv shows

That just about covers it.
 
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ok got to count these things
at home: laptop by the bed used for web browsing, music, and the occasional bit of remote wheign work calls early in the morning. and it's a p2 that is still in daily use. (am a tech as well; cobblers children have no shoes)

next is my beast desktop used for CAD, games, music, e-mail, browsing, and remote to work.
third is my media player / bench test computer. it's used to play movies to the tv and to test parts, recover hard drives.
finally have my eee-701 use this for e-mail, remote desktop, and whatever other mobile computing that i need

now the office i have 4 sitting on my desk ...
my workstation for general use, application test server, linux web test system, and win7 test system.

it's really more computers then i should know what to do with...
thing is each has it's use and i like having separate machines for certain things.

 
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Preparing multiple lectures (moderately full teaching load)
Photo editing
Web-based work, mainly research of/for journal articles
Web-based fun, surfing and keeping up with hobby sites
Email
a little social networking
streaming audio/video - mainly guitar instruction and performing
Writing letters for snail mail (USPS)
Preparing book chapters and Journal articles - includes illustrations
Keeping up with latest technology in a number of fields
News: political and economic (I have canceled the newspaper and most magazines)
Reading much in the public domain
 
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PC 1 (XP x64) - games
PC 2 (Ubuntu) - Boxee, Miro
PC 3 (Win 2k) - old games
PC 4 (Ubuntu) - netbook for portable computing
SGI Indy, Sun SPARC 20, HP 9000/712, NeXTStation Color Turbo, and many other old machines - historical computing
Mac Mini (OS X 10.5) - everything else (where most of my real work gets done)
 
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I fall under the "Which one" category.
I have my main PC which I do my modeling and programming. I also do my gaming on this PC

I have my testbed PC which I use for internet and testing out programs. I also use this one for beta's.

Finally I have my media PC which I use for my music and movies.
 
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PC gaming, old console emulators, online (bill paying, email, chat), sometimes watching movies (on DVD, what were you thinking?), basic day to day misc stuff.
 
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Guest

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by priority:
1. Internet
2. Listening to music
3. Watching movies
4. Office applications
5. Playing high-end games
6. Technical computing
 
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Gaming

catching up on missed TV shows

purchasing things for cheaper or that I can not find locally

researching multiple things whether it be from general knowledge or hardware information and lots of things inbetween - what actor was in the show I saw, a computer problem, what time a movie starts, when a game is coming out, what calls work best for certain types of hunting, where to find a certain quest in a certain game, where the heck my special pre-buy warthog was in halo wars, what comic books are coming out this week, etc., etc., (ok so its mostly, computers, games, hunting, & tv/movies/anime I look up info on but I look up info on other random things to)
 
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Notice that the Dell Laptop (I think it is a dell) is running OSX Leopard on it! Haha, TomsHardware I hope you did that legaly!
PS: Just a Joke

I use my Computer for:
Media Content
Internet Research Browsing
School Work
Web Design
Gaming
Photoshop
Programing

In that order. And by the way I have over 1.2Tb of hard drive space (externals and internal), and currently have a total of 1gb free! I need to get for hard drives, I think 5tb will last me a year or two! LOL

DVD Burning
 
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Movies, Music, Gaming, Research , Pictures, To Be connected with friends on IRC, MSN and email.
Testing Microsoft applications from MSDN , Play around with code exploring software , GOOGLE searches on anything i have a question about, Play around with linux , vmware , recepies , tomshardware , forums... download torrents :p i am sure i am missing a few...
 
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I use two machine. Laptop for mobile stuff like school - or when I get stuck somewhere and need to play some modest games to pass the time. It is also a formidable multimedia computer, BARELY handles 1080p but does all the same.

My desktop is my mass storage device, powerful gaming rig and best friend. We watch blu rays together and hook up many peripherials and listen to music with big speakers. I love my desktop - I upgrade it every 6 months or so. =]
 
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Gaming, Coding, Development, Graphics Design, Video Editing, More Gaming, Surfing the net, budgeting, expenses, Storage, benchmarking, and much more.
 
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