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Old 18-04-2010, 15:22   #46
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Re: How many PCs does your household have?
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I too am one for making sure everything is off at night. What is the point in wasting electricity!

For my PC and my Hifi setup I have bought some belkin surge protectors as they are too important to me.
Agreed - I use surge protectors for most electrical equipment, as they are so cheap nowadays.
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Re: How many PCs does your household have?
All my stuff is surge protected, well it might as well be since the 6 way surge protection extension leads at ASDA were 2 for £8 or £7.97 each
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Old 18-04-2010, 18:51   #48
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Re: How many PCs does your household have?
my pc is on a UPS, and everything else in the house is on surge protectors.
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Old 18-04-2010, 19:33   #49
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Re: How many PCs does your household have?
my pc and tv are on a monster power center.
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Re: How many PCs does your household have?
3 desktops PCs

1 old G4 Powermac

1 Laptop

1 iPod touch

Plus loads of old desktops/pc parts in cellar for sale on ebay
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Re: How many PCs does your household have?
2 x desktops
1 x imac
1 x laptop
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Re: How many PCs does your household have?
1 desktop. Please don't laugh and point at me, I already feel inadequate.
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Re: How many PCs does your household have?
1 iMac
1 MacBook Pro
1 Wii
1 DS
2 iPods
1 ipod Touch
1 Mac Mini in the loft
1 Dell tower in the loft
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1 desktop. Please don't laugh and point at me, I already feel inadequate.
If you can somehow get your hands on a surge protector with Internet access you`ll surely win hands down, even with your solitary Desktop.
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Re: How many PCs does your household have?
My surge protector has a telephone socket, does that count?
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Old 19-04-2010, 18:39   #56
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Re: How many PCs does your household have?
A lot of us have all their PC's, multimedia, networks, hifi, TV's, all linked together.
Imagine if you got a huge surge or lightening strike!

It would be the end of the world as we know it!

Which is the reason why I bought my surge protectors. Thet are really cheap these days.
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Re: How many PCs does your household have?
There I was thinking that I was excessive. Looks like I'm just fine.

1 x work laptop
1 x personal / study laptop
1 x desktop

Apart from those wife and myself have a PDA each for when on the move, and there's a Wii.

Other than that a couple of routers, one for each Internet connection, one of which is a PC of sorts.

These are between 2 adults and a child. Unsure what else apart from a perhaps a file server, which is in progress, we'd need, more than 1 machine per person strikes me as being unnecessary but each to their own I guess
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Re: How many PCs does your household have?
well at my house there is:

Mums laptop
My Tower
Dad's Tower
Dad's Work Laptop
Media Center Pc
Server For Film's Etc

Then we have about 2 or 3 dell small form facter pc's plus another tower that are just there for spare's if needed for anything.
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1 iMac
1 MacBook Pro
1 Wii
1 DS
2 iPods
1 ipod Touch
1 Mac Mini in the loft
1 Dell tower in the loft
OH wants an iPad
the OP did say PCs to be pedantic only one of those is a PC lmao lol iirc PC originally used to refer to the IBM PC and Clones although nowadays the Mac is closer to the original methology than it used to me lol

Mac are however are Personal computers but that is not I believe is not the spirit which PC was intended

http://lowendmac.com/musings/08mm/th...-not-a-pc.html
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well at my house there is:

Mums laptop
My Tower
Dad's Tower
Dad's Work Laptop
Media Center Pc
Server For Film's Etc

Then we have about 2 or 3 dell small form facter pc's plus another tower that are just there for spare's if needed for anything.
and the peripherals damien comon I wanna know your leccy bill
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