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Well I have a windows laptop, a mac laptop, a desktop, an iPad, a Steam Deck, a Nintendo Switch, a Quest 3, and a smartphone that I use regularly (well the iPad
by cableshaft 2y ago
Well I have a windows laptop, a mac laptop, a desktop, an iPad, a Steam Deck, a Nintendo Switch, a Quest 3, and a smartphone that I use regularly (well the iPad I don't really use much anymore, but I keep it updated).
My partner has a macbook, a mac mini, a windows laptop, an iPad, a Nintendo Switch, and a smartphone that she uses regularly.
That's 14 computing devices right there. For a family of two, not even four.
That's not including additional laptops we need for work.
Granted we probably don't represent a typical family.
Also most Steam games nowadays are 80GB-150+GB (Baldur's Gate 3 is 148GB, for example).
Which makes services like Xbox Game Pass less desirable, since you have to fully download and install all these new AAA games you might want to just try out for a few hours (or only take like 6 hours to get through their single player campaign).
I have to limit the downloads of those to 1 or sometimes 2 big games per month usually, and I go out of my way to transfer the games to external hard drives so I don't have to redownload them when I want to go back to them, which is something I never bothered doing before. I also watch a lot of Youtube videos at 360p to save bandwidth for other things, like Netflix.
- abracadaniel 2y agoNot to mention cloud storage and backup that everything uses. Every photo or video you take is also consuming your data.