I'm impressed with all the snazzy minimalist desks. Here's my attempt, albiet incomplete. You can't see it in the picture, but to the right is the fixed half of a doorwall with views of San Diego Bay. I wanted to minimally impact the view, so my idea was a clear plexiglass desk. The monitors are hung on the wall with a couple of fancy two-monitor bow arms, and a couple of very un-fancy Radio Shack antenna wall mounts. There's a wiring channel cleverly hidden behind the monitors. Out of view to the left is the half-rack for the generic servers, UPS, etc. Keeps all the clutter in one place (in theory!).
The red desktop is a $30 cheapie from Ikea. One of these days I'll get around to having the plexi top made in a similar shape. I was just walking through Ikea one day, spotted the top, and for $30 it was worth it to try the shape that I already had in mind.
The two monitors to the right run Kubuntu, the vertical one OSX (I spend most of my time in XCode, so vertical works out best) and the one on the left - well, it's waiting the Matrox Dual Head 2 Go DP edition to become something other than vaporware (which it's been for the past year+).
The monitors are 2000-era Samsung IPS (amazing, Apple just re-discovered IPS with the iPad...) and are still kicking strong. They used to run two each on Windows and Linux. (Two servers.) Windows is now relegated to running under VMWare on the Macbook.
Yes, that's an "IBM" keyboard (actually a Unicomp, which acquired the patent from Lexmark which acquired the patent from IBM) and a left-handed Logitech wireless mouse. The wireless keyboard on top of the Macbook is just waiting for the iPad 3G I ordered. I use Synergy+ to work the Mac from the keyboard/mouse on the Kubuntu system.
I'm a developer. Typically, I run XCode on the Macbook, and have two screens on Linux to run Firefox and view PDFs.
And, yes, that's a mechanical taximeter. And and old-school Roget's Thesaurus (the kind with decimal numbered "concepts" not synonyms). What can I say, I'm old-school.
Oh, one last thing: the reason for the (future) plexi top. You can easily (OK, not EASILY, but you can...) remove scratches from plexi. Not so, glass. (You'd have to send it out to a pro, and even then...). You glass-toppers know what I'm talking about, hahahahah!
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