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What do you use your Mac for? :Top 10:

Eso

Eso

macrumors 68020
Original poster
Aug 14, 2008
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What are the top 10 things that you use your Mac for? It doesn't have to be in order of most you use it for most frequently. I don't mean your top 10 apps. I mean the activities that you do with your Mac.

Here's what I use it for most often:
  1. Surf the web
  2. Play games
  3. Watch the GSL
  4. Participate in forums
  5. Homework
  6. watch TV
  7. Download movies
  8. Organize my music library
  9. Find location/number of a business
  10. Buy stuff online
 
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metalgear1

macrumors newbie
Apr 3, 2012
8
0
I don't have a smartphone so I can't answer about "activities that you do with your phone".

I use my iMac for building and designing websites mainly and after that surfing the web and watching TV.
 
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12dylan34

macrumors 6502a
Sep 3, 2009
884
15
  1. Surf the web
  2. Use the Internet for useful things
  3. Work with 3D scenes
  4. Animate in After Effects
  5. Design in Photoshop and Illustrator
  6. Watch TV and movies
  7. Write papers
  8. Render 3D scenes
  9. I had a duplicate here, but can't think of another thing to replace it.
  10. Play games
 
SpyderBite

SpyderBite

macrumors 65816
Oct 4, 2011
1,262
8
Xanadu
Email, Reading, Shopping, Finances, Gaming, Writing/Editing, IRC, Social Media, Drawing (via Wacom) & iMessage with family.
 
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reflekshun

macrumors member
Sep 3, 2010
32
0
1. Music production
2. Playing Games
3. Watching Movies
4. Surfing the web

I keep it simple 4 is enough!
 
chrisrosemusic1

chrisrosemusic1

macrumors 6502a
Jan 31, 2012
696
21
Northamptonshire, England
1\ Browsing & Email
2\ Work
3\ Music Production
4\ Gaming (although it's not very good at it - hence buying a new PC!)
5\ Managing my iTunes content
6\ Doesn't exist, there isn't much else I use it for!
 
smoking monkey

smoking monkey

macrumors 68020
Mar 5, 2008
2,335
1,468
I HUNGER
1. Use it to watch TV shows and Movies
2. Surf the web
3. Write
4. Stream TV and movies Hulu etc.
5. Photos
6. create educational documents
7. iTunes - educational videos and music management
8. minor photoshop and video editing
9. emails
10. Skype/ichat

I used to do heavy video editing with FCP but no longer. Although I still use it on my laptop but now just for basic editing - It's much quicker than using that PITA iMovie.

I'm getting the better 27 just because the price difference is so minimal and will install my own ram up to 16 although 8 will probably do.
 
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jvmxtra

jvmxtra

macrumors 65816
Sep 21, 2010
1,245
3
1.parallel to run windows to do all the work related stuff (vpn and etc)

2.air video client to watch all the video from my pc server running air video server

3.running chrome to do all my surfing and youtub'ing

4.programming(all , whether it be photoshop or xcode or dumb terminal to open
traditional programming)

5.reading is a big part(relates to 4) )

6.remote desktop to either work or my windows pc to download and etc

7.Itune U and regular itune

I use imac the most and space is what gives me the advantage of using 27 imac(has 2 other 24 inch and 21 inch(vertial for reading) to do mad multi-tasking.. King of Multi tasking.. I won't list other mundane program i use..
 
d0nK

d0nK

macrumors 6502
Nov 4, 2011
392
209
UK
With my hackintosh and MBP:

1. Music Production
2. Sound editing
3. A lot of photo and image development
4. Web design and development
5. 3D rendering for logo's and animation shorts
6. Video creation
7. Surf & use the web
8. Listen to music
9. Programming
10. Gaming

It'd be nice to get an iMac which can handle this but the 27" + BTO price premium is daft. I'd need at least 3TB HD space, with another 3TB for backup and lol at the price of TB atm.
 
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triweaver2

macrumors newbie
Jun 22, 2012
22
0
With iMac and MBP
1) Web surfing and forums
2) light games
3) email
4) converting shiny discs to loss less files on external HDD
5) researching and documenting family history
6) shopping
7) light photo editing (was more when I was selling silk scarves on-line)
8) reading books
9) scanning family slides
10) create drafts for computer driven weaving loom and transfer to cartridge to drive the loom
 
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peeaanuut

macrumors 65816
Sep 10, 2007
1,048
1
Southern California
1. Photography (editing, organizing, printing)
2. Surfing/browsing
3. Talking to family
4. games
5. media organization and playing
6. games
7. optical media conversion
8. pissing off the wife
9. take home work stuff
10. see #8
 
coder12

coder12

macrumors 6502a
Jun 28, 2010
512
3
Hey, this is a pretty neat thread! I have a tie for 2nd.

1. Editing footage
2/3. Coding/Graphics work
4. Web surfing
5. Logic Studio + my keyboard
6. Gaming/Minecrafting (I'll probably do a lot more when my RMBP comes this week)
7. Music
8. Writing papers (I should be doing that right now :p)
9. Skyping with family/friends
10. Ironing my clothes while my computer heats up from VMWare
 
Caromsoft

Caromsoft

macrumors regular
Jun 8, 2012
137
23
1: FileMaker development
2: Surfing the web
3: FaceTime
4: Join Me for tech support
5: Email
6: Web design
7: Paintbrush
8: Research
9: Can't think of a 9 or 10 :)
 
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StephenAndrew

macrumors member
Dec 12, 2009
93
2
Connecticut, USA
1: heavy photo editing in Lightroom and Photoshop
2: organizing and accessing photos, music, movies, etc.
3: web browsing
4: emailing
5: keeping calendar events, client appointments, schedule etc. organized
5: managing/creating documents (contracts, spreadsheets, invoices, etc.)
6: light video editing
7: FaceTime/Skype
That's pretty much it.
 
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Yamcha

macrumors 68000
Mar 6, 2008
1,825
158
In no order..

  1. Surfing the Web
  2. Web Design
  3. Watching Movies
  4. Music
  5. Gaming
  6. Email
  7. Chatting
 
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Virinprew

macrumors 6502a
Apr 24, 2012
774
404
1. surf web, forum
2. listen to music, podcast
3. watch Youtube, iTunes U
4. read & annotate papers
5. programming
6. play game
7. social network
8. word & powerpoint (would like to use pages & keynote but not compatible with other people)
9. manage content in phone and iPod
10. some simulation
 
RoastingPig

RoastingPig

macrumors 68000
Jul 23, 2012
1,606
70
SoCal
1.Porn
2.Torrents
3.Macrumors
4.Amazon
5.Itunes
6.Bootcamp-Gaming
7.Photoshop
8.Media Streamer
9.Microsoft Word
10.Porn
 
TouchMint.com

TouchMint.com

macrumors 68000
May 25, 2012
1,625
318
Phoenix
1. programming (xcode)
2. design (gimp)


I still find everything else easier to do on windows machine (gaming, torrents, videos, music, etc...) Is it bad I have made 10+ iOS apps on this machine and I still don’t know how to efficiently use the file system? lol
 
talmy

talmy

macrumors 601
Oct 26, 2009
4,726
332
Oregon
I use my 27" iMac and 15" MBP interchangeably (they both have the same apps installed) depending on if I'm at home or away. Uses, in no particular order:
  1. Web browsing, MacRumors and various reference sites.
  2. Email
  3. Video recording of lectures (both via screen capture and using the camera or external camera)
  4. Writing
  5. Preparing illustrations
  6. Photographic image processing
  7. Personal Finances
  8. Programming (not XCode but Java and QT)
  9. Schematic capture and circuit board layout
  10. Digital system design, simulation, and FPGA synthesis

I'm sure there is more. I don't use them for music or video (I've got other systems for that) and don't play games.
 
SandboxGeneral

SandboxGeneral

Moderator emeritus
Sep 8, 2010
26,482
10,051
Detroit
My list, in no particular order.

  1. Web browsing
  2. Email
  3. Twitter
  4. Web development
  5. Video editing
  6. Audio editing
  7. Podcasting
  8. Music listening
  9. Watching podcasts
  10. RDC into office PC
 
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Scrapula

macrumors 6502
May 1, 2012
305
14
Seattle, WA
1. Online banking / paying bills
2. Listening to music
3. Doing school work
4. Web surfing
5. Goofing around on Facebook
6. Shopping
7. Playing games
8. Downloading my Suunto Ambit workouts
9. Analyzing stocks
10. Finding recipes
 
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