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Post Your Mac Setup: Past & Present (Part 18)
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They make very nice accessories. I have an iMac back tray designed by them to hold my external hard drive. Very nice.
I decided it was time to use all of my electronics at the same time like some other regulars here do xD ...
except for my macbook air. It's hungry.
Randomly: I can change the keyboard backlight color.. but the tower is better, you can make it cycle through colors, so I decided to just have it cycle all of the colors. Why not, right?
Sorry if it's been asked before, what keyboard is that? Is it mechanical and is it Mac layout? Thanks
That's one hungry macbook!!!
What it doesn't eat in battery life it eats in hamburger cd cases!
It's an alienware tactx keyboard, which is sadly not mechanical. It's made by logitech and uses the oldschool key feel, which I can't say I'm a big fan of lol. The spacebar is squeaky! OTOH it does look really cool :\ And I was really wanting a backlit keyboard, so when it came with my desktop I was really happy.
I think I might get a logitech k810 to replace it. Maybe? That or a regular apple keyboard! I miss that key feel right now :\ I'd like a mechanical but I'm not comfortable forking up $100 for something that might end up being way too noisy.
My desk looking colourful. (27" iMac, Swan M50w speakers with a HRT Music Streamer II DAC).
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While I'm here, I did this to a new iPad Mini this afternoon.
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Don't panic - nothing that can't be undone.
Poor mini, was it still functional. Looks like you ran it over.
My computer desk
Hackintosh on the left (2.4ghz quad Xeon), PC on the right (3.5ghz Phenom II, move the middle screen to which ever I'm needing it on, normally on the PC as Mac sucks at dual screens
My boyfriend's desk
It's always a mess :O, Windows Machine and 2010 Mac Mini somewhere in the mess.
My laptop desk
Late 2011 15" MacBook Pro with matte high res display, 16gb of ram, a 256gb SSD and I've pulled the DVD out and put the original 500gb spinning disk in the bay.
Hackintosh on the left (2.4ghz quad Xeon), PC on the right (3.5ghz Phenom II, move the middle screen to which ever I'm needing it on, normally on the PC as Mac sucks at dual screens
My boyfriend's desk
It's always a mess :O, Windows Machine and 2010 Mac Mini somewhere in the mess.
My laptop desk
Late 2011 15" MacBook Pro with matte high res display, 16gb of ram, a 256gb SSD and I've pulled the DVD out and put the original 500gb spinning disk in the bay.
Is all that power for work, or just for your personal use? Very nice regardless!
Just for personal use. At work I have a 2009 24" iMac (Some kind of core2duo, 8gb ddr3 etc). We've just got some of the new 27" iMacs with 16gb ram, but mine isn't due for replacement quite yet
At home we also have a VM Server (2.6ghz quad, 12gb ram) running about 17vms and a file server (15tb of HDD space), which shares to 2 HTPCs, Xbox, PS3 etc. You've gotta have toys
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Sadly, yes, as usual. He'll clean it up if I pester him, but he just seems to move it all somewhere else and then shifts it back again over 2 days....As usual!?
I was going to put 8gb of RAM in it, but the price wasn't worth it, so went to 16gb. This then introduced a new issue, which is I guess why Apple didn't give 16gb as an option... it took ages to enter sleep.
It took about 2 minutes... this meant that when I was studying, you'd finish a class, close laptop, clean up papers etc, put laptop into bag... while it was still entering sleep and it appears that the hard drive sensor isn't working when it's entering sleep. Turns out I pretty much ****ed the HDD, so put in the SSD and just use the HDD for music. The HDD spins down after 2 minutes of not being used, so it's off most of the time.
Now, this is more like my setup. My mind is completely blown by the setups in here where you cannot see even one wire.
I have a built in cable management tray on my desk and wires are still unavoidable.
I use zip ties and have the tray and I still see some cables.
Maybe i'm not patient enough.
I plan on getting a new desk soon. Just a basic top from IKEA and some legs. That is going to be a disaster with cable management.
Late 2011 MBP with the 2.2 ghz quad core i7, 8 GB ram, 120 GB SSD and the stock 500 GB HDD in the optibay. Have it hooked up to a 22" external monitor, I also use the rain design mstand, and it's hooked up to a Logitech 2.1 speaker system.
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