How many Macs do you actually use?

[mcsey]

A lot of us have a lot of Macs, but I'm curious how many you actually use. I use this here Macbook Pro, my PowerMac at school, and my TV/MacMini and that's about it. I have a few older Macs, but I think about using them a lot more than I actually do.

What Macs do you use?

[James]

Here's a list of the Macs that actually get used in a typical week by two people:

1. G5 - primary Mac for general use, podcasting
2. MBP - primary surf-while-watching-TV Mac
3. MBA - Travel Mac which gets toted to work everyday
4. iBook-G4 - primary surf-while-watching-TV Mac for the wifey
5. iMac-G4 - karaoke Mac (monthly use)
6. iMac-G3 Graphite - kitchen Mac for morning news check and recipe file
7. MDD G4 - Macca Mac
8. Intel mini - Home theater Mac
9. Sawtooth G4 - bedside Mac for music and bedtime surfing
10. Yosemite G3 - since the G5 didn't play nice with my all-in-one HP, it serves as the scanner-Mac

To be honest, one Mac could do all of this stuff but you would be constantly carrying it around and connecting different peripherals or fighting over it.

[Ryan]

I use them both at school and home:

1. 800Mhz eMac - Doing 'work' in electronics at school twice per week.

2. White intel iMac's at school for general IT work.

3. White intel iMac at home for 'Everything'.

4. Alluminium iMac's at school for general IT work.

5. VERY SLOW broken iBook G4's in some lessons.

[MacMan]

I have the majority of my Mac collection set up and ready to use if the mood takes me. For mainstream computing tasks my PowerMac G4 Digital Audio and Titanium PowerBook G4 get used every day. There is an LC 475 in the bottom drawer of the desk in my study that runs 24/7 as a webserver. My PowerBook 1400 also gets used very frequently and recently I have been using my Mac Plus quite a bit for telnet sessions. Currently I also have my PowerBook 145B at work for the occasional game of Crystal Quest, which is a good way to get through boring days!

There are several more Macs which I don't use frequently, though most of them are set up and connected to the mains.

[JustSomeGuy]

I have a Mac IIci connected to my G3 iMac for interaction with the outside world. I use both regularly. My kids play Disney's ToonTown on my top-o-the-line 24" iMac these days, but for retro tasks, nothing beats the IIci. I've got some parts on order to take the SCSI connection completely solid-state... It'll be booting from compact flash soon.

[Claudio Miranda ("QuadSix50")]

I actually use two. I use my iMac G5 quite regularly and I sometimes use my Quadra 650 when I'm feeling nostalgic or when I'm updating the web page hosted on the Quadra (usually from the iMac or from another computer using KompoZer).

[Manuel Marques]

Intel iMac (white) - my main Mac, I use it for everything, from music to college work. It is still quite snappy, considering it *already* is 2 years old :).
PowerBook G3 "Pismo" - my main (and only) laptop, also use it for everything (when I'm on the road - in campus, wherever I can get some work done :)). Still going strong, but I wouldn't mind some speed, although its excellent battery life almost makes me forget about it!
Performa 5200 - My TV (has an internal TV tuner, connected to our cable network - really nice!), also a "bridge" between my new and my older Macs. I also use it to administrate my web server, Babylon, with Timbuktu :)
Mac LC III - My web-server, running 24/7 (provided there are no power outages, of course :)), on http://babylonlc.no-ip.org:8080.

The other Macs... I fire them up from time to time, but I don't have any real use for them. :p

[MJJ]

MacBook for when I am lazy!
iBook G3 (when we are both being lazy, although this has just died!)
iMac 1ghz 17" swivel flat panel is the main machine
MacMini - attached to the TV
1.8ghz G4 Cube with 15" ACD. (wife uses that with USB piano/keyboard attached)
20th Anniversary Mac (500mhz G3), for when I feel nostalgic
400mhz Pismo, with WiFi card, just because it's a great machine!

[Chance]

Ooooh, let's see.

PowerMac G4 400 with upgraded Graphics, memory and hard-disk - used for video work and general image tweaking - now resides with my mother, but used regularly until about two months ago.

iMac G3 (600MHz Blue Dalmatian) - used almost every day for writing, web-surfing and iTunes

Pismo (500MHz) with DVD/CDRW added - used daily as my personal and work laptop (when not using Agency machine)

Macbook - provided by the Agency I work for - it's ok, but I don't really like Leopardand it drops the wireless connection every five minutes.

PowerMac G5 - arriving soon, to replace the G4 I gave to my folks - this will let me do web editing, Flash authoring, graphical and video work and let me lay out the pages of the book I am working on (well, books - one for freelance work, one as a hobby).

Oh, and I am currently using a Newton Messagepad 110 as my day-to-day work PDA as it cost me £4 from eBay and I got Columbo's Murder Mystery game with it to while away the train journey...and I find it actually easier to work with than the iPod Touch as a PDA.

Then there is a 10GB original iPod, a 2Gb iPod Nano and a 16Gb iPod Touch - do they count?

At some point, I might add an iBook G3 in Tangerine, or an iMac 24" aluminium.

I've got a PS3, so I don't need the Mac Mini for my home hub - I just wirelessly transfer films from the Macs to the PS3.

[connectionfailure]

Powerbooks
Powerbook G4 1GHz- the main workhorse. The battery has recently gone from bad to worse. Also could use more RAM.
Powerbook G3 400MHz- I'm using it right now!
iBook G3 900- for the missus

Powermacs
Powermac G4 1.25GHz MDD- the new jukebox. Plugged in to HDTV. Will use iPhone as remote control
Powermac G4 Dual 450- old music-making workhorse
Powermac G4 466- bedroom video jukebox
Powermac G4 466- will become a backup server
Powermac 9500 w/G3 upgrade- soon to be replaced with a 9600 (sweeeet) - scanning mac.

Kids macs
Powermac G4 1.25GHz MDD
Powermac G4 800MHz Quicksilver

[CaptainV45]

The main Mac I use is my Mac Mini 2ghz Core 2 duo. I use this with leopard and share it with the wife. We use this for iPhoto and iTunes mainly. It also serves the purpose for helping get my comic strip to the web.

My second mac is my 366mhz G3 iBook. I run this in Mac OS9 and have it connected via firewire to my 8.5x14 scanner that isn't OSX friendly. I scan my 3x14 in comic strips on it and then send the files over to the mini for editing. I am trying to find my old photoshop 7 CD so that I can do the editing on the iBook and send it to my site via ftp.

iPhone. Okay it isn't a Mac, but it is my main eMail machine.

All of my other machines are currently in storage with my brother and are not being regularly used. They include a quadra a pizza box power mac with DOS a Powermac G4 Sawtooth a Performa 6200CD (my first mac) and a B&W G3.

[Mark Frischknecht]

Regularly I use 3. My Imac, Macbook and my g3 B&W running Ubuntu. My Quadra 950 I use about 2-3 times a month

[mcsey]

What distro of Ubuntu? I use the 6.x release on several of my iMacs at work. My secondary mail server is an iMac DV running Ubuntu, and I use another one as a tcpdump box on the edge of my network. iMacs make great terminal boxen. With no GUI you've got some horsepower to work with... plus it's a good excuse the throw away g-danged hockey puck mouse.