What do you use your laptop for?

Just bought an ibook today. Mainly its just a toy but got me thinking. I wonder what everyone else uses their laptops for. This is my first Mac and my first laptop.

I plan to be my entire life all wrapped in this little thing. Ill store all my mp3, photos, files, etc. Try and manage my money/bills, keep up with things to do/calendar stuff, etc...

just curious of what cool/neat things you guys do and what programs you use on a regular basis

I surf the web. Hold back your gasps, because I know this is earth shattering.

Edit: I too use mine for everything. Every other computer in our house (still in high school, so I live with my parents) is a PC so I avoid using those as much as possible.

Everything.

I no longer use a desktop PC as my primary machine.

+1

I use mine for Office (Word and Excel every day), doing presentations, email, web browsing, playing games ... everything.

I use mine to keep my lap warm.

Amen-Moses

I do all of the things that you've mentioned, and then some. I use Quicken via Parallels for money management, and I use iWeb to manage my website. Photoshop CS3 beta is my image editing app of choice, although I use iPhoto to import & store my photos, mainly for the awesome slide-show features that are navigable with my remote. I use FireFox for web browsing, and Mail for email. iCal is a great tool for keeping track of appointments & stuff, and I use Address Book for keeping track of contacts - and an added bonus - synching with my iPod, so I'm never at a loss for an email address at work. I do use Boot Camp to load up XP to play games, but that's about all that I use Windows for.

Email and basic internet
Office for school/work
VNC to connect to my labs servers and work on my dissertation.
Waste a WHOOOOOOOLLLLLLL lotta time goofing around.
-d

I do everything on mine, from websurfing and IM to music and photos to typing papers and managing money. I don't have a desktop machine here at school with me anymore.

Amen-Moses said:

I use mine to keep my lap warm.

Amen-Moses

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yeah me too...

did you know that one of the reasons of lower sperm counts in males is due to laptops?

haha!

skye23412 said:

yeah me too...

did you know that one of the reasons of lower sperm counts in males is due to laptops?

haha!

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Yea, I use it as an additional form of birth control

I use mine for almost everything except downloading and storing music and movies. For that I use the shotty PC in my sig, connected to my TV via s-video. My setup, for a broke college kid, is pretty sweet.

Design work.
Surfing the web.
Editing movies.
Listening to music.
Web design.

It's a computer...

skye23412 said:

yeah me too...

did you know that one of the reasons of lower sperm counts in males is due to laptops?

haha!

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You just have to be careful when closing the lid.

Amen-Moses

laptop

surfing
ebaying
communicating
downloading
watching american tv
watching the odd dvd
ituning
iwebbing http://www.mcevinney.com
blogging http://www.tictalk.org

and loads of other things

best regards

Right now I'm being a nerd and using my MBP on my 22" widescreen... for no reason other than I can. Well, and I freed up the DVI input on my LCD by moving my Mini to my wife's desk...

Email
Internet Surfing
MUSIC
Video
Photoshop
Minimal School work ( i usually do it on my dads computer cuz its connected to a printer)
BitPim
Chat
LightScribe (Such a cool feature on my laptop )

I use my macbook for everything except:

Storage: I have a debian based file server for that
Bit-torrent: I have a debian based file server for that ;-)
Remote shell access: My old Toshiba Satellite Pro is literally up 24/7
The KIDS: They have a thinkpad each.

any and all things.

-> photoshop/illustrator/indesign (often all at once).
-> ripping/watching movies (legally owned DVDs, naturally).
-> surfing (though it suffers after a few hours in the waves [wink!]).
-> listening to music.
-> swatting at flies.

and, of course, the popular answer -- keeping my sperm count low.

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cazabam said:

I use my macbook for everything except:

Storage: I have a debian based file server for that
Bit-torrent: I have a debian based file server for that ;-)
Remote shell access: My old Toshiba Satellite Pro is literally up 24/7
The KIDS: They have a thinkpad each.

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They're gonna hate macs when they get older. lol Thats why you start em on a mac!

Well, the sound doesn't work anymore so theres only a couple uses. Word and Powerpoints I do for school, IM, Internet, IRC, sometimes a little Photosdhop when im bored. Honestly it makes a good book replacement on the john, my second office.

Well I take it back. Thats a good bit of uses for an old iBook. All im missing is music.

With my old HP I would play GTA Vice City in class after I finished my work. lol

I kind of hate bringing the iBook to school though. Even the teachers hate on me because I got a mac. lol

surfwax95 said:

Design work.
Surfing the web.
Editing movies.
Listening to music.
Web design.

It's a computer...

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Yeah, me too. Its a computer. I use my notebook for stuff that one would need to use a computer for.
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