My main interactive devices are a T61 thinkpad, with a nice Intel SSD, sitting at eye level, beside a cheap (from a sale) Samung 20in monitor, and a stero about as old as I am. Currently runing Arch linux, on btrfs, with systemd and awesome wm.

Currently use a Deathadder mouse and either a Natural 4000 keyboard, sometimes somes working for some reason havnt got to the bottem of it, or a cheap Logitech keyboard, that sticks since I split ginger beer recently on it, oops.

LG-p500 Android phone, as a cell, and making notes at random times. Wouldnt mind a tablet (Hp touchpad) as I like the device for couch surfing alot but find the screen and keyboard too small.

Have an old AMD Athlon fileserver too, might need to upgrade to something a lil more recent for more sata ports thou, or try my luck with PCI sata again. And a smaller “cache file server”/download/50+ other things plug pc would be nice, and a few other things, im a bit of a greenie so dont like leaving the bigger machines on all the time.

Linode 512 for a webserver (currently not active), and a better shell when at Uni (everythings ancient and no zsh).

Desktop would be nice for the odd game (espescially with some of the Xen passthrough stuff, dont like shutting down, except for kernel upgrades), and a quad core would be nice for some more virt machines and the like.

Also have another T61 (broken screen) for experimenting with Xen and other random stuff without comprmising a useful machine and an old A21m thinkpad for some random stuff, but the battery recently gave up completly on it. (p3, 256mb ram).

Guess I do have a few computers :)

Hello from consoleland! My main computer is ThinkPad T20 without screen (I use external LCD) and battery (plugged is 24/7). It has 700MHz Pentium 3 processor, 64MB of RAM, 30GB of HD space and S3 Savage graphics card with 4MB (if I remember correcly) of video RAM. My main laptop is iBook G3 running MintPPC without X11. It has 300MHz (I think) PowerPC G3 processor and 64MB of RAM.

I have a couple of desktops running a bunch of different OS’s (LMDE, Sid, Win7 and Ubuntu for testing) but I use mostly my laptop, also running LMDE.
Lately, I got an Asus Eee Pad tablet at work and I find myself using it increasingly. It’s the transformer model, with a removable keyboard, making it effectively a small laptop (or netbook) when mounted. I installed a decent terminal on it and can run SSH, vim and a bunch of other nix tools natively (not over SSH) and my favorite browsers (Firefox, Chrome and Opera). Actually, it can run almost any tool I would use on a normal laptop.
As it is a work device, I didn’t try to root it and run a stock Android 4.0.3 but this has not been too much of a limitation so far.
Tablet+real keyboard is the way to go, obviously.

At work, it’s a cheap old desktop running XP (thats right, I’m cutting edge)!
At home, I got rid of my desktop a year ago as it was hardly ever used, I mainly used it for gaming, butI also have an xbox360, so most of my gaming is done on that.

My main computer is a samsung laptop running ubuntu with wmii WM. It’s in constant use for everything from watching random shows (Sons of Anarchy atm), playing music through my home system, coding, recording for my home studio and …. stuff! It really gets abused, but suits me ok.

I also have a HP prolient blade server thing. It mainly hosts a few websites, and is used for experimenting/playing on. Most of the time it just makes a noise and wastes electricity.

The ipad is used for convenience (facebook, reddit, time wasting games etc). And my phone, Samsung Galaxy 1, is used mainly as a phone, with the occasional use of convenient web browsing.
All my reading is done on a Kindle (or my phone/ipad if I’ve left my kindle somewhere)

I actually have both a desktop and a laptop on my desk and use both at the same time with synergy. My laptop runs CrunchBang Linux, and my desktop currently has Windows 7 although until about a year ago I was strictly Linux only. I picked up an ATI 5830 for xmas last year and ended up using windows too much for gaming to justify dual booting. Having the 2 systems side by side and using the same keyboard and mouse works out really well. A lot of times I’ll end up using the laptop to look up hints on games i’m playing on the desktop.

I use my Nexus S phone a majority of the time for communications, mostly texting and email, but I also use an xmpp client to keep myself signed in to facebook chat and gtalk all the time. I just don’t see a point in running a chat client on my computer when i have a fancy smart phone that’s perfect for it. Occasionally I’ll use my laptop for email or chatting if I need to use OpenPGP or OTR.

I also have an android tablet that I mostly use in bed for reading RSS feeds, Reddit and occasionally gaming on.

My main computer is my desktop, despite the fact that it is really old (7 yrs), underpowered (pentium d 2.80), and quite old screen (CRT 15 inch). I have a laptop (which is quite powerful) and a smartphone (which is my second most device for internet browsing). My biggest reason to use desktop over laptop is keyboard, it is more comfortable or maybe I am more used to it.

Well, I’ve never had a laptop.
I was thinking about getting one (or even better a netbook) when my RPG-books became more and more electronic variants.
But that step was missed due to getting a tablet (Galaxy tab first, nexus 7 now) and having all the clunky books my gamers haul around in a nice package of not even 500g (including the protective cover).
For my non-RPG-use there’s the desktop at work (some office machinery with decent enough hardware to run our ressource hungry business software) and my personal desktop with state of the art (uhumm… half a year old so most likely antique now) hardware.
And that one’s used for gaming. And sometimes when an idea had enough time to slowly bubble into something worthwile writing.

hmm.. hard to decide

I own:
* a gaming/work-pc with “more power!” (TM Home Improvement)
* mediacenter PC (Atom330, fanless, ~5-6 Harddrives)
* ARM-Netbook (Toshiba AC100, fanless, ~8hours battery, Tegra2, but only 512M RAM)
* Android Phone (Motorola Milestone 1/Droid 1)
I rent:
* Server for g33ky.de

the obvious answer would be “my primary Device is my Netbook, because i use that most often” but that would be exactly as wrong as stating my Phone is it, because i carry it around all the time.
If i look at what i would miss most if i lost it, then i would have to say “my server”. Most things i do start with SSHing into that and then doing something there. Pretty much everything that doesn’t start like that is using a Browser (i pretty much gave up on that on smartphones), watching some TV series (Mediacenter) or running some Games (50:50 on my gaming-pc/my phone)

So i’m not sure… either Server, Netbook or even Smartphone could be my “primary” computer.

BTW: I look forward of buying one of those nice ARM-Chromebooks to replace my aging AC100. :-)

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@ Rob: Synergy might do the trick instead of getting a hardware KVM.

I have three main machines I use:

* Desktop running Windows 8 Consumer Preview (which has been.. interesting), used mainly for gaming and leisure activities.

* Laptop running Archlinux on an older Gateway. This is my main work machine for projects and on-the-go tasks. This has actually slowly replaced my desktop as my go-to machine for most work.

* Mac Mini for work.