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Post Your Mac Setup: Past & Present (Part 10)
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Your ambient lighting looks fantastic! Can you please link the LED light from Ikea? And how did you set it up? As in what did you attach it to behind the display.. Thanks!
It's very similar to this. I think this is the updated version of the lighting I purchased a while back.
I used heavy duty double sided tape to attach everything. It holds really well, but comes up clean if you ever need to take it off.
There's one on the back of the ACD facing the wall
One on the ACD underneath to provide lighting out the bottom of the screen.
One behind my MBP
And one in the cubby of my bookshelf.
I was happy to see that the Seagate hard drive I purchased also has white LED lighting underneath it.
Here's mine, the specs for the Mini and the MacBook are in my signature and I have a 250GB Seagate FreeAgent for Time Machine. I also have a 16GB White 3GS but that was in my pocket, forgot to put it in the pic (oh well). The printer underneath on the left is a Cannon MP240 and the PC underneath on the right I built myself. It has an ASUS Micro ATX Mobo, Intel E5200 2.5GHz dual-core CPU, 4GB DDR2 RAM, nVidia GeForce 9500 GT 1GB DDR2 RAM w/ 550MHz Clock, 500GB Seagate Barracuda HDD and dual boots Windows 7 and Ubuntu 9.10.
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Thanks, it's made by Z-Line. I don't think they make this particular one anymore but a lot of their desks are the metal and glass designs. Look them up if you like the style.
13'' MacBook Pro & 23'' Asus vh236h
Now I need a new mouse (Razer Orochi) and a BT keyboard (probably get the Apple one). Also I'm thinking about hanging my monitor on the wall...
I'm planning on getting a similar monitor soon. I'm glad it looks so good!
v/nice set up!
I've got the same display. For a TN panel its surprisingly good. I love that its got HDMI in too! I've also got a slightly older Asus PW201. I've got the 201 on the wall on a tilting mount, and I've got the 242H placed on the 201's aluminum base.
I'm thinking about picking up a second one of my 23" display...but the tricky bit is how I'll manage that. Anyone have any experience with display link?
Do you have a good color profile for it? I try to calibrate it myself but I'm not very good with this stuff.
It's not very cool looking, but it's quite practical, given all that's connected. I just posted it on another thread, and thought about sharing it here, in case it can give some ideas:
FWIW, this is my desk:
The desk itself consists of two (medium and big) Ikea tabletops with their corresponding legs. It's about 20 sq.ft and costs $84 (or if you get only 6 legs, $76)
Because I hate cables, and like to have as much space as possible to put my own mess, I also made this for the router (it cost about 3€):
For an extra $10 you can get the Signum cable grille and (almost) forget the cables:
I also had an Ikea PS cabinet (from back when they still made them in black). It's great because it comes with a hole at the bottom to put cables through (I made another hole in the back, at mid-height, to run the USB and FW cables)
This is the end result:
On this picture, you can see:
A MacBook Pro.
Two cheap Logitech speakers
Phone (okay, I just noticed you can't see the phone on this picture, but you can on the first one!)
Two keyboards (the PC is wired, the Apple KB is bluetooth)
A Wacom tablet
A wireless mouse for the PC (the mouse mat is actually a cutting mat from Dhale). I've also a much bigger cutting mat on the smaller table.
A monitor (wired to the PC and the Mac)
The all in one printer
And, hidden:
A router
A whole desktop PC
External speakers for the PC
An iPod cable
An iPod shuffle dock
The MBP spare battery
A USB Hub
A FW 800 Sandisk CF card reader
A USB CF card reader velcroed to the back of the monitor.
Ten (or so) USB and FW hard drives,
I can connect pretty much everything at the same time to the Mac (except one or two things) with the flip of a switch.
The power strip under the table (on the Signum grille) powers everything that stays always on (the router and the Mac, namely, plus the lamp, phone, and speakers). There's another power strip under the cabinet (it'll soon go inside) that powers everything that's not constantly on (printer, hard drives, PC, monitor...) so there's no unnecessary power loss.
I also got some cable staples to make sure cables stay on the wall (did I mention I hate cables?)
Oh, and I put a couple of those LED AA battery adhesive lamps in the cabinet to help me see if I need to connect something.
FWIW, this is my desk:
The desk itself consists of two (medium and big) Ikea tabletops with their corresponding legs. It's about 20 sq.ft and costs $84 (or if you get only 6 legs, $76)
Because I hate cables, and like to have as much space as possible to put my own mess, I also made this for the router (it cost about 3€):
For an extra $10 you can get the Signum cable grille and (almost) forget the cables:
I also had an Ikea PS cabinet (from back when they still made them in black). It's great because it comes with a hole at the bottom to put cables through (I made another hole in the back, at mid-height, to run the USB and FW cables)
This is the end result:
On this picture, you can see:
A MacBook Pro.
Two cheap Logitech speakers
Phone (okay, I just noticed you can't see the phone on this picture, but you can on the first one!)
Two keyboards (the PC is wired, the Apple KB is bluetooth)
A Wacom tablet
A wireless mouse for the PC (the mouse mat is actually a cutting mat from Dhale). I've also a much bigger cutting mat on the smaller table.
A monitor (wired to the PC and the Mac)
The all in one printer
And, hidden:
A router
A whole desktop PC
External speakers for the PC
An iPod cable
An iPod shuffle dock
The MBP spare battery
A USB Hub
A FW 800 Sandisk CF card reader
A USB CF card reader velcroed to the back of the monitor.
Ten (or so) USB and FW hard drives,
I can connect pretty much everything at the same time to the Mac (except one or two things) with the flip of a switch.
The power strip under the table (on the Signum grille) powers everything that stays always on (the router and the Mac, namely, plus the lamp, phone, and speakers). There's another power strip under the cabinet (it'll soon go inside) that powers everything that's not constantly on (printer, hard drives, PC, monitor...) so there's no unnecessary power loss.
I also got some cable staples to make sure cables stay on the wall (did I mention I hate cables?)
Oh, and I put a couple of those LED AA battery adhesive lamps in the cabinet to help me see if I need to connect something.
Oh, I wouldn't dare!^ get out from under my desk.
Great minds think alike
w00t! Someone else w/o an aluminum MacBook with an external monitor!
Very nice set up.
Downsized, got rid of the Mac Pro and switched a Dell for the new ACD, other than that, pretty standard.
Sorry to quote a picture but does anyone know what desk this is? TIA
I was going to say, they should rename this thread:
"Post Your MacBook With An External Monitor On An Ikea Desk!"
Please don't post your setup in both threads, choose one and post it there, this rule is stated in both threads.
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