Looby
Well-Known Member
I sometimes watch stuff on my iPad in bed or in my office when I’m doing admin. It’s not as good as the tv but it’s fine.
What is your home TV set up?
- Thread starter Hollis
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Epona
Sonic: 1 Nov 2006 - 8 Jan 2022
I don't have a laptop. I have a gaming PC
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
How does that work then? Where is the keyboard and monitor?
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
I’m well confused now. I thought a PC was a desktop and a laptop a laptop?To be a pendant a PC can be a laptop, desktop or other form factor
(though lots of people seem to call desktops laptops these days, judging by customer enquiries at work)
Epona
Sonic: 1 Nov 2006 - 8 Jan 2022
Monitor is on a coffee table in front of the sofa, cat and keyboard are on my lap.
Beverage (currently a mug of black tea with honey) on a small table next to the sofa.
Epona
Sonic: 1 Nov 2006 - 8 Jan 2022
PC just means Personal Computer (as opposed to a Mainframe with terminals).
Technically your smartphone is a PC.
My PC is technically a Tower PC.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Is is a wireless keyboard then?
I think I’d need the monitor to be further away and more elevated for my comfort.
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
Why don’t you nip round to Epona’s , sit down , get comfy have a cuppa and try it out, see if you like it ?
Epona
Sonic: 1 Nov 2006 - 8 Jan 2022
No, all wired, you get a bit of lag with wireless which is no good for gaming.
The monitor is on a very adjustable stand and my eyes are level with the top 3rd of it, which is the advised height in terms of ergonomics.
A lot of stuff is more adjustable than you seem to imagine
I could also play games using a controller and the TV without moving from my seat if I wanted, but I prefer my monitor as I can have stuff higher resolution because it's up close (otherwise I can't read onscreen text at high res on the TV). And my arthritic thumbs don't like controllers so kb+m is better for me.
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
Yes. See people also calling the PC the CPU, modem, hard disk etc.
Chz
Stark Raving Sane
Ah, the olden days of tech support...
"My PC isn't working!!"
plugs in monitor
"How did you fix it?"
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
At least with desktop and laptop there are clues in the name
tony.c
Well-Known Member
I won't need a sound bar. I'm hoping that the Skyglass gets a bit slimmer, looks quite chunky now.
I have read that you can't get Al Jazeera on it. Not a big deal as I can't get that channel and a number of other news channels now.
Looby
Well-Known Member
It’s on the TV not separate.
I didn’t think it was too chunky but ours is on a shelf anyway so we wouldn’t notice.
Hollis
bloody furious
Poll is a bit fucked TBH, no option for satellite dish (Sky/Freesat/other box), not multiple choice, and two options for 'Watching it directly on my laptop/tablet/phone', FFS Hollis, sort yourself out!
I''m still confused...many questions..
Why would you take out a more expensive cable package rather than just a streaming service?
If you stream from your laptop can you still piss around surfing on it?
Is the quality of streaming as good as cable?
Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
depends if cat is happy to sit on his lap
although how many people keep a desktop on the desk now?
CPU box in horizontal mode with the monitor stood on it was the default once, but pretty rare now. i can't remember when it changed, but must have been a while ago.
most big box computers are now vertical mode and under the desk. 'desktop' is increasingly misleading.
hmm.
Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
in answer to the original question,
TV is plugged in to aerial socket, aerial is in loft. i installed it when digital became a thing (had just about been able to get a signal with indoor aerial before that) the cable to the roof mounted aerial was crap, and it points in the opposite direction to most round here (presume someone was trying to get london rather than south) so could never get a signal on it.
It's a smart TV so there's an ethernet cable run to it as well, so I can watch things on catch-up.
TV is plugged in to aerial socket, aerial is in loft. i installed it when digital became a thing (had just about been able to get a signal with indoor aerial before that) the cable to the roof mounted aerial was crap, and it points in the opposite direction to most round here (presume someone was trying to get london rather than south) so could never get a signal on it.
It's a smart TV so there's an ethernet cable run to it as well, so I can watch things on catch-up.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Is it? I don’t know what you mean. There is a desktop in my house and my workplace is full of them. I know nothing of ‘floortops’ if that’s what they are.depends if cat is happy to sit on his lap
although how many people keep a desktop on the desk now?
CPU box in horizontal mode with the monitor stood on it was the default once, but pretty rare now. i can't remember when it changed, but must have been a while ago.
most big box computers are now vertical mode and under the desk. 'desktop' is increasingly misleading.
hmm.
Epona
Sonic: 1 Nov 2006 - 8 Jan 2022
It's what I referred to earlier when I said my computer is a "Tower PC" - you wouldn't have it on the top of the desk, because it's taller than it is wide.
ATX cases come in both configurations (various things will be in different positions, depending upon whether it is desktop or tower - fan vents, mountings for power supply, hard drives, DVD/Blu Ray if anyone uses those any more, power and reset buttons and USB/HDMI/Ethernet sockets etc) but actual desktop ie. wider than it is tall, laid on its side compared to a tower case, is less common these days.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
The keyboard and monitor remain on most computer desks though, no?
Epona
Sonic: 1 Nov 2006 - 8 Jan 2022
depends if cat is happy to sit on his lap
Jakey sits on everyone's lap, he loves people and thinks every visitor is here just to see him.
Sadly, he's a bit incontinent in his old age, and although I can provide puppy pads, not everyone would be happy to have him on their lap
Also I probably need to incinerate the carpet before anyone ever visits again.
He is a lovely auld boy mind and does love visitors.
Epona
Sonic: 1 Nov 2006 - 8 Jan 2022
Why?
They don't have to.
A traditional office type setup is not needed, or even desirable in a lot of cases, for playing games.
Would you play games using a games console at a desk?
farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
I don't have a telly.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Cos people need to work at desks. The desktop at home is on the desk cos there is nowhere else to put it. I wouldn’t put it directly on the floor where feet would kick it and I doubt it would be common practice in offices either. In my admittedly limited experience of probably 10+ workplaces, I can’t ever recall seeing computers on floors.
Dystopiary
putting up a hook to hang my hopes upon
They just like to sit on the keyboard now!and the loss of big monitors is a backwards step for kitties
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
No, but I admittedly failed to consider that some people use PCs for games. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a gaming PC in real life. I was thinking of them as workplace computers.
My world is simple
Desktop - work
Laptop - social media, music
Console - games, films and tv
Epona
Sonic: 1 Nov 2006 - 8 Jan 2022
But people don't just use computers to work on, they are also for leisure.
And you can put one anywhere you would put a games console.
You can sit to play games on one anywhere you would sit to play games using a games console.
I don't want to sit at a desk to play games.
I have a tower PC nowhere near a desk, so I can use it from the sofa.
I actually have a bit of a "thing" about people saying they prefer a games console over a PC because "you can sit on the sofa and play on the TV" but you can do that from a PC too.
You can set it up in all manner of configurations.
Not just a traditional "office work" setup.
Epona
Sonic: 1 Nov 2006 - 8 Jan 2022
Why?
