Got a tip for us?
Let us know
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.
Post your iBook setup!
- Thread starter XIII
- Start date
- Sort by reaction score
jayscheuerle
macrumors 68020
pdpardue said:
I wish the logo was right-side up, but I keep the book open about an inch so as not to sleep and the A shape keeps the dust off the keyboard, etc. The TV is an HDTV with VGA input. I get a 1280 x 720 resolution off it with Screen Spanning Doctor. Marine Aquarium is my screensaver. All my music is on my book and it DOES run though my stereo. I end up working from my coffee table with a cordless keyboard and mouse. I have most of the cables going down inside the vertical members on the shelves so as not to look messy.
It's my wall of geekdom!
jayscheuerle
macrumors 68020
buryyourbrideau said:WOW thats the oddest place for a notebook i have ever seen
I probably would have bought a mini if they were around at the time!
It has been nice on the rare occasions when I've wanted to go portable. The only downside has been that screen spanning cuts my vram in half, which slows down some screen effects, but for the most part is unnoticeable. I live in a row-home, so being able to get EVERYTHING on a 10" deep shelf was an incredible space saver! - j
mad jew said:Ohh cute, he's trying to use Spotlight.
LMAO that's so funny I'm going to have to show my boss!
Here's some pics I snapped today with my new HP M305 camera. I'm not a big camera buff, so I decided to get a beginner's camera, hence the 3.2 mp. I tried taking the pics without flash, so they do look kinda grainy. If anyone's got any advice on how to take clearer pics, lemme know. I also shrunk these images using Paint. I know, MS Paint stinks.
I also shrunk these images using Paint. I know, MS Paint stinks. Attachments
Little King said:Well here is latest, revised set-up. I am now very proud of it although it does need some things tweaking with it.
My complete set-up taken from a 'Bird's eye view'. I think this view shows off my frosted glass desk in the best manner possible.
I am planning on getting some Harmon/Kardon Soundstick II, which I feel will complement the set-up quite well. I hope you like it, I sure as hell do!
Studio RTA... sweet desk. I plan on getting new model (lower to the ground with gunmetal accents rather than the more silver). Great setup.
I cleaned up my desk a bit and shot a picture (see attachment).
Here's the scoop:
The black thing with the cord is a vintage Western Electric Model 500 rotary telephone, ca. the 1950s, with the apparently less common metal dial.
The beige thing behind it is a shaving mirror.
Below that is a green-topped Altoids Citrus Sours can, holding paper clips, ballpen springs, mechanical pencil leads, a replacement eraser for a wooden pencil, and three black Parker fountain pen cartridges.
Next to that is an iPod FireWire power brick, and a bit further over is a bottle of aftersave. What you can't see behind the Mac is a Texas Instruments graphing calculator and sometimes some papers.
Below those is a 3G iPod in a black iSkin, a 64MB Iomega flashdrive, and a small Swiss Army knife.
Underneath the computer is a pair of old Realistic (Radio Shack) headphones that I use when I want better sound without the discomfort of iPod earbuds.
The iBook G3/800, of course, is on a Griffin iCurve -- what's interesting is that I have used the wrapping clip along the power cord to loop it around the iCurve so it's always near where I plug in.
A bit further to the right is a Parker Reflex fountain pen -- the reason for the cartridges in the Altoids can, and next to that is a coaster.
On the other end there's just a pen cup, a some Penguin Mints, my asthma medication, my wallet, a change bowl, lens cleaner, and a Nokia 3210 cell phone -- no BT or anything like that, so when I wanted to download a vintage-phone ringtone to it, I had to use a Dell and a data cable.
Plugged into the USB on my keyboard, and at the sides of it, are a SanDisk CompactFlash reader and an Apple mouse. Fellowes gel pads, green.
Golfer-shaped lamp should be apparent.
Here's the scoop:
The black thing with the cord is a vintage Western Electric Model 500 rotary telephone, ca. the 1950s, with the apparently less common metal dial.
The beige thing behind it is a shaving mirror.
Below that is a green-topped Altoids Citrus Sours can, holding paper clips, ballpen springs, mechanical pencil leads, a replacement eraser for a wooden pencil, and three black Parker fountain pen cartridges.
Next to that is an iPod FireWire power brick, and a bit further over is a bottle of aftersave. What you can't see behind the Mac is a Texas Instruments graphing calculator and sometimes some papers.
Below those is a 3G iPod in a black iSkin, a 64MB Iomega flashdrive, and a small Swiss Army knife.
Underneath the computer is a pair of old Realistic (Radio Shack) headphones that I use when I want better sound without the discomfort of iPod earbuds.
The iBook G3/800, of course, is on a Griffin iCurve -- what's interesting is that I have used the wrapping clip along the power cord to loop it around the iCurve so it's always near where I plug in.
A bit further to the right is a Parker Reflex fountain pen -- the reason for the cartridges in the Altoids can, and next to that is a coaster.
On the other end there's just a pen cup, a some Penguin Mints, my asthma medication, my wallet, a change bowl, lens cleaner, and a Nokia 3210 cell phone -- no BT or anything like that, so when I wanted to download a vintage-phone ringtone to it, I had to use a Dell and a data cable.
Plugged into the USB on my keyboard, and at the sides of it, are a SanDisk CompactFlash reader and an Apple mouse. Fellowes gel pads, green.
Golfer-shaped lamp should be apparent.
Attachments
See my black ibook its in my sig, but if i change that in the near future il leave a link here to the gallery:
its in my sig, but if i change that in the near future il leave a link here to the gallery:
I'm guessing you didn't get apple carethe_snitch said:See my black ibook
Looks nice though
jwp1964 said:It's not much, but works for my less than power user stuff!
thats a nice and clean setup, but tried the 14" ibook i found that the res was the same as the 12" and that it really looked bad, because it looked stretched. do you notice this?
I have noticed...but
I'm getting old and I use bigger fonts occasionally so it works for me. Lately I have been considering the 12" PB because I want all the Tiger visual gizmos to work...
wnameth said:
I'm getting old and I use bigger fonts occasionally so it works for me. Lately I have been considering the 12" PB because I want all the Tiger visual gizmos to work...
mad jew said:Is there anything Marx said that you haven't read about?
Like all great things I learned at college, the more you learn about a subject, the less you really know.
I went through ALL those books (not reading every little bit mind you) and my general knowledge of Marxism is still very limited and frankly more disjointed than it was when I started my work. The paper in question was a work which dealt with finding Marxist idealism or underlying concepts in Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club. I got an A- on it
Nobody should ever have to look through so many books...and that was about half of em.
zakatov said:
Nice iBook. Very clean and well cared for it seems like.
These G3's are rock hard and can keep up with today's modern super computers.
Mike
the_snitch said:See my black ibook
That is amazing. How did you do that?
Mike
Attachments
