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Haha, I can definitely see that happening. There bloody heavy!
*hugs his 4 pound Macbook*
Thats why you need a BIG desk, I can have 3 mac pros with 3 24" LED ACD on top of my desk and still have a more than enough usable workspace.
Thats why you need a BIG desk, I can have 3 mac pros with 3 24" LED ACD on top of my desk and still have a more than enough usable workspace.
That's great for you, I suppose. Personally I want to have everything within non-rolling reach.
Honestly, even if I had the space I wouldn't put my tower on my desk because I think it looks ridiculous. Then again, unlike most Mac users, I don't give half a crap what my computer looks like and I have no urges to show it off
2009 LightWeight workstation:
Apple Mac Pro 8-Core 2.93GHz (Nehalem)
Apple MacBook Pro 15" 2.93GHz (Unibody)
Apple 24" LED Cinema Display
Apple Time Capsule 1TB
Apple iPhone 3G 16GB
Apple TV 160GB
Apple Remote
Apple In-Ear Headphones
Apple Wired & Wireless Keyboard
Apple Wired & Wireless Mighty Mouse
Apple Mac Pro 8-Core 2.93GHz (Nehalem)
Apple MacBook Pro 15" 2.93GHz (Unibody)
Apple 24" LED Cinema Display
Apple Time Capsule 1TB
Apple iPhone 3G 16GB
Apple TV 160GB
Apple Remote
Apple In-Ear Headphones
Apple Wired & Wireless Keyboard
Apple Wired & Wireless Mighty Mouse
lol, I was franticly looking for exposure settings in photobooth, then I realized its photobooth
Thats why you need a BIG desk, I can have 3 mac pros with 3 24" LED ACD on top of my desk and still have a more than enough usable workspace.
Great, tell me when you wake up in the night to a loud bang, and see everything broken on the floor. Im afraid for my 30 inch display, it weights I think about 40 pounds. Never buy your desk from bobs discount furniture!
lol, I was franticly looking for exposure settings in photobooth, then I realized its photobooth
Great, tell me when you wake up in the night to a loud bang, and see everything broken on the floor. Im afraid for my 30 inch display, it weights I think about 40 pounds. Never buy your desk from bobs discount furniture!
Not with this desk, it can hold more than 200-300lbs if I wanted to. I bought this desk (well actually built it) for around $350, you just dont know how STURDY this Galant desk is from ikea. Just go take a look at one at ikea.
My setups is:
Nehalem Mac Pro 8-Core 2.26GHz
Unibody MacBook Pro 15" 2.66GHz
24" LED Cinema Display
Time Capsule 1TB
Apple TV 160GB
iPhone 3G 8GB
Nice setup man!! How are you liking your 2.26GHz Nehalem Mac Pro?? I'm trying to see if I want the 2.26GHz or the 2.66GHz, only thing swaying me closer to the 2.66GHz is that the QuickPath interconnect speed is 6.4 instead of 5.4 of the 2.26GHz.
My setups is:
Nehalem Mac Pro 8-Core 2.26GHz
Unibody MacBook Pro 15" 2.66GHz
24" LED Cinema Display
Time Capsule 1TB
Apple TV 160GB
iPhone 3G 8GB
Love that LED Cinema, can't wait for Apple to release the 30 inch LED, nice setup are you using the LED Cinema on your new Mac Pro
High Quality Shot of my set up.
Also, though not really a mac pro, if this was 1992 it would be like one. This is my commodore amiga 4000 video toaster with highflyer expander. This this can run 8 NTSC monitors
Awesome on the toaster and A4000!!!
I have the A4000T and four A4000 desktops still.
All packed away in the garage nice and snug. A CDTV too - the 1st one.
Nevermind the desk, what's that chair thingy and how do you use it? Looks awesome!
I straddle it...
often naked too
Of course not!
nah, i just sit on it 'bench style' the raised bit on the right acts as a good leaning post - not perfect though, I'm looking for a better option.
looks like the new nehalem mac pros are using 2 big fans in their heatsinks where the ram is located. And I hear another fan inside the main heatsink where the CPUs are located.
I would highly recommend keeping it on top of a desk to lessen the dust build up especially the ease of opening up the panel once every few weeks to clean dust out with those air cans.
I would highly recommend keeping it on top of a desk to lessen the dust build up especially the ease of opening up the panel once every few weeks to clean dust out with those air cans.
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What are you talking about? No way I'd put my pro on top of the desk.
As if it'd make that much difference anyway.
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What are you talking about? No way I'd put my pro on top of the desk.
As if it'd make that much difference anyway.
Never posted an image into a thread but here goes...
I need to paint my walls.
can u put up a link to that keyboard, thats looks sooo cool!
Also to all the editors out there: Are NTSC monitors really needed? 1 monitor costs more then my entire set up
I have 2 NTSC monitors for my commodore, should I hook them up to my pro instead?
Awesome on the toaster and A4000!!!
I have the A4000T and four A4000 desktops still.
2X on that! My first 'real' computer was the Amiga... started with a 500 in '90, moved up to the A1200 in '92. Still one of the most impressive OS's to date... the thing would boot in 10 seconds flat with a 33mhz 68030 and 8mb ram!! True preemptive multitasking way back then.
Now I just run my Amiga stuff via Emulation, it's ridiculously fast.
Here is a crazy screenshot for you... An Emulated Amiga running WB 3.1 on Windows XP MCE which is a VM inside of Fusion running on the Mac:
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I think if your paying a premium especially for the design and everyone knows you do buying an apple product, the mac pro is beautiful and looks so much better on top.
Anyways as for dust buildup, my first hand experience ever since the 1st gen mac pro there seems to be a HUGE difference.
I've tested it out for 2 months on the floor (I have wood floors, no carpets probably even worse) and 2 months on top.
Anyways when the mac pro was placed on top after 2 months there were barely any dusts when using my air can to clean inside not to mention hell of a lot easier opening the side panel with not moving my mac pro or squatting down.
When the machine was on the floor after 2 months boy was there a lot of dust spewing out of the fan area using my air can.
I have a clean home with no pets and once a week clean the wood floors and I never wear shoes anywhere around the house.
can u put up a link to that keyboard, thats looks sooo cool!
Also to all the editors out there: Are NTSC monitors really needed? 1 monitor costs more then my entire set up
It depends what you're doing. In my case, I shoot everything in HD, but I have to downconvert a lot of footage for use on our cable newscast. It's easy to accidentally introduce interlace problems in that process, so I preview every newscast on an NTSC CRT to make sure everything is working correctly.
That said, I personally feel that while NTSC monitors are useful, they're not an absolute requirement for a lot of work. Between the fact that everyone is moving toward HD (and HD sets are much more tolerant of vibrant reds, bright whites, etc than NTSC sets are) and the fact that programs like Final Cut have a lot of built-in monitoring tools, you can do most editing without an NTSC monitor.
Thanks, I saw your set up and I was like oh no, I have some old NTSC monitors but I don't use them with my work, Im doing it wrong. Would you consider an 30inch ACD good enough for checking HD? Also is it true that NTSC stands for never the same color? I didn't believe it but I dont know.
My Amiga is tons of fun! It has the highflyer expansion top which adds way more imputs and out puts, 2 power supplies, and 4x 120MB hard disk drives.
And I got it all for free! Got to love schools not knowing anything about computers!
Thanks, I saw your set up and I was like oh no, I have some old NTSC monitors but I don't use them with my work, Im doing it wrong. Would you consider an 30inch ACD good enough for checking HD? Also is it true that NTSC stands for never the same color? I didn't believe it but I dont know.
My Amiga is tons of fun! It has the highflyer expansion top which adds way more imputs and out puts, 2 power supplies, and 4x 120MB hard disk drives.
I know a lot of people who use ACDs for HD monitoring, so I'd say you should be just fine.
NTSC actually stands for "National Television System Committee." The alternate acronym of "Never The Same Color" is an old joke ;-)