I wish our respective companies would go the way of “BYOD” (bring your own device). The PC they gave me is junk, and husband would rather carry one device as well. He already does that with his phone.
But just one laptop for personal use, for me. Mail, messaging and pictures all replicate between my devices automatically.
Our company started with a policy of BOYD but it became untenable. Security, personal data conflicts (i.e. porn) and configuration incompatibility were big issues. Same thing happened when phones got smart.
Our IT department would spend way too many hours trying to fix a private computer that was not compatible with DoD level security measures. Connectivity issues were also a problem as our group of about 300 people worked remotely and were constantly having firewall issues, especially when the company made an upgrade.
By the time I retired no external storage device could be hooked up to a company computer. Thumb drives, external HDs, CD-RW and all the cloud places were blocked except the company one. You could not even send attached files in eMail unless the recipient domain was registered and had an export license in place.
Interesting about all the computers folks have. A have a dell laptop, a samsung tablet w/ bluetooth keyboard and a Samsung phone. I vowed to cut the Apple cord when I quit working and I did. I also have a Galaxy watch.
I keep 100% of my data in a Drop Box cloud with auto syncing as others have done. I use the laptop in the RV with separate 27" tv/monitor and on my desk with 2 X 24 monitors for 3 screens.
It's great to shoot some photos with my phone and know that pretty much instantly the photos are in dropbox and then mirrored to the HD on the laptop. Being old school about once every 2 months I mirror the laptop drive to an external 1tb HD. I used to leave the HDD plugged in an run an autosync app but haven't set it up in all my moving around in the last year.
I use the tablet everywhere else. I can do eMail, messaging, photos and it's also my entertainment system for bedtime reading or streaming tv. It also runs my iRig so I can use it for my guitar practice.
If it wasn't for spreadsheets I probably wouldn't have a laptop.