What do you do on your iMac?

[sinanziric]

I am asking all iMac users (Intel and Apple Silicon): Give me a list of tasks you perform on your iMac:

This is what I do:

- Internet browsing (obvious)
- Adobe Creative Suite (entertainment + business)
- Figma (business)
- Microsoft Office (I have to use it but it's sluggish as hell by design)
- Facetime, Whatsup
- Tracking my To-Do lists with Notes
- Tracking my Calendar
- Plan to play some WoW new expansion (casually)
- Browsing Apple TV rentals and sales (I don't go to cinema anymore so ..)
- Checking on Apple Maps when I need to find a direction
- Using Discord with Stack (so many Discords)
- Tracking my logins with msecure (it's so good)
- Watching my Udemy tutorials 1-2 hours per day as well

I guess this is what most people do?

 

[ger19]

Light duty user here:

web browsing
email
simple (mostly financial) spreadsheets
basic Word documents
listen to music (low volume, just some background noise in the room).
taxes using Turbo Tax
shopping (kind of the same as web browsing)
calendar
text
phone
notes
viewing photos

with calendar, text, phone and notes, I really like how the iMac syncs with my iPhone and my iPad. That’s the main reason I went with Apple this time for my desktop.

I have a base 8/8 core M1 unit and I’m satisfied with it.

 

[PoisonTheWell]

Make comic books (inDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Acrobat all day). Edit photos (Lightroom, Photoshop). Manage social media accounts.

 

[jobesucks]

Watch **** loads of porn on glorius 5k screen

 

[MBAir2010]

Im designing a new website with my own art work and going to launch that soon!
I will use dreamweaver 4 with adobe CS4 and mountain lion as my OSX.
So far 3 Macs form the era will construct and edit the site
while Monterey OS will the OS to use for uploading on a Mac mini and MacBook Air with M1 procesors.
im signed out of iCloud except email and other junk to keep the pods running.


Currently, Im dusting off an old, wretched Mac mini from along.......... time ago,
2022 and seeing if those  HomePod mini speakers (blue) are any good,
and they are!
I like that satachi bottom port that host a NVMe 2 blade, a WD blue 1TB and might watch
the Mandolorian again , since i breezed thru Obi Wan in 2 afternoons this week

These past 4 weeks I decided to use only pre 2013  equipment (MtLion, 3 Ipods, Mac mini-MBP-MBA)
which was fun, better experience and less annoying.
I should stick with that since everything worked better but I am stuck with those 2 HomePod minis, and will use Monterey to play media on those form now on. I was using a borrowed Bose sound soothing that did not control the volume as these HomePods do, now I don't have to purchase a new BT speaker since these minis work fine.

all in all i'm happy we can use 2012 OSX in 2024,
but fear that we can't as we did
and we are losing control of our MacBooks, mini etc
since system preference (or what ever Cupertino labeled the new version)
limits the toggles now as Sonoma need front commands that Monterey only a quick slide... off or on.

just the fact we can't open a new finder window on OS
is my last concern and acceptance of anything  promotes again.

OP: sorry about the non-list, but I do listen to Liszt, Franz Liszt on iTunes and music.

 

[MBAir2010]

Watch **** loads of porn on glorius 5k screen

I have a 2K monitor that only plays a load of prom movies!

 

[oasantos1]

Mine just sits unfortunately.

 

[pshufd]

Browsing, watching videos, trading, making videos, writing, spreadsheets, email.

 

[jouster]

Given that ours is a 21.5" 2017 (I think) with a 1TB Fusion Drive, its best uses are:

Doorstop
Emergency reflector for signaling the uninfected during Zombie apocalypse
Heater for potential mini ice age (requires Google Chrome)
Flat glass surface for preparing small portions of talcum powder
Backup monitor in case my other one fails*





*Wait...that one would be ludicrous

 

[videojanitor]

21.5-inch (2017), 16GB, 500GB SSD ...

It's my everyday driver:

- Email
- Messages
- Browsing
- Affinity Photo
- Affinity Publisher
- DaVinci Resolve
- FileMaker Pro
- Pages
- Numbers
- Sound Studio
- Reaper
- MakeMKV
- Shutter Encoder
- Handbrake
- Compressor
- VLC
- Parallels (with Win10)

 

[kagharaht]

Since retiring and getting a new iMac M3, 24GB ram, 2TB. eMail, Safari, Calendar, Notes, Photos...all the basic stuff. I don't really use Office stuff anymore. The major things I will use it for is Gigapixel and Video AI from TOPAZ to work on old family albums and video. Some photos goes way back in the 1930's and old VHS Tapes I would love to restore...Fun little project during my retirement. My wife and I retiring both at 62 is the best thing ever man!

 

[MultiFinder17]

I use several iMacs in my classroom.

Main iMac (2020 27", 3.3GHz i5, 64GB RAM, 512GB SSD) - Most everything to run my classroom. A lot of productivity mixed with coding and light 3D modeling. I love this machine for its gorgeous huge display and ability to have two other displays on either side. I do a lot of stuff at once

Office iMac (2015 21", 2.8GHz i5, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD) - Everything my main iMac does, just smaller and buried in my little nook of an office for when I want a change of environment.

Announcement iMac (2014 21", 1.4GHz i5, 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD) - Used to display my seating chart, announcements, weird schedules for state testing days, and to run The Sims as our class pet when not being used for any of those needs.