Top 5 things you use your computer for

[Rifter]

list the top 5 things you use your computer for, alot of us have killer rigs so lets see what we put that Mhz into:

1. Encoding Mpg's, avi's, etc. Into VCD and SVCD format(just got a home DVD player and its kinda addicting)
2. Downloading and listening to music
3. Surfing, e-mail, office apps, etc.
4. Games
5. chat w/ people.

 

[monk3y]

1. Downloading and listening to music
2. Chatting with people and this forum
3. Games
4. Surfing the net and downloading stuff
5. Doing school work

 

[vi edit]

In order of use:

1) Internet browsing(includes email)
2) Games
3) music jukebox
4) Uploading, storing, and printing of digital camera pictures
5) productive stuff - money management

 

[webnewland]

1. School
2. Games
3. Downloading
4. Information
5. Chat

 

[goodoptics]

1) Internet/chat
2) School
3) Downloading/Listening to Music
4) Working on mp3's, wav's, VCD and DVD stuff
5) Burning cd's, vcd's, etc.

 

[IcemanJer]

1) nef
2) communicate
3) listen to music
4) do homework
5) nef

 

[TripleJ]

Nef
CAD
Rendering
Encoding
General stuffing around

Most of the MHz is used by RC5 during idle time.

 

[OREOSpeedwagon]

1. Browsing, email, AT forums, etc.
2. 3D design and animation (just starting to get into this)
3. Downloading and listening to music
4. School work
5. Programming

 

[pulse8]

1. Internet (e-mail, ATOT, AIM, etc.)
2. Games (Counterstrike lately. I'm addicted.)
3. mp3s (Encoding and Downloading)
4. Photo Retouching/Sound Editing/Remastering
5. Something having to do with OfficeXP

 

[Shooters]

1. internet and e-mail
2. school stuff (writing code, reports, etc.)
3. multimedia - mp3s, DivX encoding
4. gaming
5. chatting

 

[rc5]

Porn, sex

 

[Doctorweir]

S*x with your comp???
Uh, just watch out for the rotating fan blades...

 

[monto]

reading news/chats/messageboards
downloading music and stuff
listening to downloaded music and trying out aforementioned stuff
icq
homework/research

 

[yellowperil]

Browsing message boards
E-mail
Shopping/selling
AIM
Games

Honorable mention: writing term papers

 

[erikiksaz]

Games
Online Communication
Games when i'm not communicating online
School work once in a while
I don't think i have a fifth


edit- MUSIC, i totally forgot. this belongs in between the first and second.

 

[blueghost75]

1. i probably spend most of my time HERE.
2. checking my email, hoping that i have some (usually don't, kind of depressing really )
3. chatting with people on AIM
4. i either have the radio turned on on my TV card, or i am playing MP3s while i do all this other stuff
5. read hardware reviews

 

[cherrytwist]

1. Surfing/Research
2. Games
3. Buying/Selling/Trading
4. mIRC/AIM
5. d/l media

 

[ProviaFan]

1...Internet (including these forums, email, chatting)
2...Music (especially WinMX)
3...3D modeling (OpenFX)
4...Image editing/composition (GIMP, etc)
5...Web page designing

During the school year, school reports would suddenly appear at the top of the list

 

[ace31216]

1. Games
2. Surfing the web
3. Communications: ICQ, E-mail, ect.
4. Post forums: Anandtech
5. Webpages

 

[Olias]

1. Information
2. Entertainment
3. Communication
4. Games
5. Time/money black hole

 

[Shadowedge]

Surfing/Reading
Programming (nobody mentioned this one yet - kinda suprising)
Games
Commmerce (buying/selling)
Music

All in no particular order

 

[DannyLove]

1.a Games
1.b MUSIC!!!
2. FTP
3. Chat/Forums
4. Web Design, Adobe, etc
5. JLH

danny~!