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> I use a Mac as my daily driver

What does the author mean by 'daily driver'?

Sorry about that, I try to use idioms that are a little more widespread, but outside of car culture, you might not hear the term that often. It basically means 'the computer I use for day-to-day work' (see this for example: https://www.reddit.com/r/nexus4/comments/2b7pm5/what_does_da...).

It would be opposed to an exotic car or computer I'd use only in certain special circumstances (like the Raspberry Pis I use for testing cluster configurations, at www.pidramble.com).

I really only ever hear the term from the tech press. Those folks might have 5 phones and 3 laptops sitting on their desk at any given time, so the term "daily driver" makes sense to describe the one they actually use. For the rest of us, we just have "a laptop" and "a phone."

"Daily driver" is a common idiom for "the thing I use every day", borrowed from the automotive world where someone who's into cars may drive various vehicles at times for work/personal purposes, but the one they drive on a daily basis -- their "daily driver" -- is consistent.

Using something as a "daily driver" means you use it every day as your primary computer.

The phrase usually means your reliable, but not fancy, car that you drive to work every day. It also implies you have a another nicer car that you only drive for pleasure, or in good weather, etc.

It's a reference to an automobile that one uses for most normal tasks, as opposed to a secondary car that may be a sports car or collectible car that one only takes out for leisure.

Say you had a minivan for taking your kids to their schools and sports practices and picking up groceries, and a Lamborghini for going to da club on Saturday nights...

It's an expression meaning something is used everyday as a primary thing because it's practical to you.

It probably references the idea of having a practical car vs. keeping a sports car or utility vehicle in the garage.

Yep, and this made "My other car is a Porsche" stickers flourish. ;)

A good question would be if the OP would have the guts to put a sticker on the Mac like "My other laptop is a DELL".

You made me laugh :)

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