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Post Your Mac Setup: Past & Present (Part 19)
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Just regular LED strips from IKEA
http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/20119418/Two mounted on the back of the display and one under each monitor.
Yeah, this is it. Shameless Redbull marketing and all.
Thunderbolt Display hooked up to a 15" retina macbook. Under the desk there is a WD Thunderbolt Duo 4tb drive in RAID 0 Config. (no backup! 0.o)
Bose Companion 5 as speakers. Love them, I'll admit they are overpriced. But i get some 5.1 goodieness without having speakers behind me, and they look great! And they are USB based, so i can just connect it directly to the TD
Using a Airport express to extend the network, its hooked up to the display with ethernet. Thinking of swapping it with a Time Capsule
There is a Moleskine Evernote Ed. Notebook in the left corner. Cool thing, and it works pretty good with the evernote app. Just take a picture of a page, and it looks like it was scanned (sometimes, sort of...)
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That's a sweet photo. Extremely well composed. Tells a story by focusing on the icy window as much as the mac setup. *high five*I got to work from home today due to an ice storm. Much better than my cubicle at work
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I got to work from home today due to an ice storm. Much better than my cubicle at work
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This has got to be one of the most beautiful photos in this thread.
Not the PA272, but we have a couple of PA271's at work. It's basically the same, but not LED backlit.
They are great screens for Photo editing etc. Matt screen, conformity across the whole panel and a good wide colour gamut. If you have the funds, go for it.
I <3 older macs (yes, that is a <working> iBook G4 1.33 Mhz motherboard)
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I got to work from home today due to an ice storm. Much better than my cubicle at work
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What display is that?
I love the look of it, but for my uses of it I would need an adapter. I'm looking for a monitor with dual HDMI inputs, and I've found a few for my price. I was hoping that would have that.
I would need to get a splitter for it, sadly, and I don't want to have all that extra stuff on my desk.
Here's my latest setup and I am quite happy with it!
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Ikea Galant Corner Desk (Also pictured: Ikea Alex Drawer Unit and Ikea Erik Drawer Unit)
Steelcase Amia Office Chair
15" Macbook Pro w/Retina (Late 2013 - 2.3GHz i7, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD)
Rain Deisgn mStand
SkullCandy PLYR1 Wireless Headset
32" Sony 1080P LED HDTV (KDL-32W650A)
Sony PlayStation 4
PowerA DualShock 4 Charging Cradle (with two DualShock 4s)
Logitech K811 Bluetooth Keyboard
Logitech Performance MX Wireless Mouse
Razer Desctructor 2 Mouse Mat
Batman Movie Posters from Etsy
Star Wars Movie Posters (Ollie Moss reprint, not genuine).
Not Pictured
Apple AirPort Extreme
Motorola SurfBoard SB6141 Cable Modem
CalDigit Thunderbolt Station
USpeed 7 Port 3.0 USB Hub
Seagate 3TB USB 3.0 External HDD
Pictured
Ikea Galant Corner Desk (Also pictured: Ikea Alex Drawer Unit and Ikea Erik Drawer Unit)
Steelcase Amia Office Chair
15" Macbook Pro w/Retina (Late 2013 - 2.3GHz i7, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD)
Rain Deisgn mStand
SkullCandy PLYR1 Wireless Headset
32" Sony 1080P LED HDTV (KDL-32W650A)
Sony PlayStation 4
PowerA DualShock 4 Charging Cradle (with two DualShock 4s)
Logitech K811 Bluetooth Keyboard
Logitech Performance MX Wireless Mouse
Razer Desctructor 2 Mouse Mat
Batman Movie Posters from Etsy
Star Wars Movie Posters (Ollie Moss reprint, not genuine).
Not Pictured
Apple AirPort Extreme
Motorola SurfBoard SB6141 Cable Modem
CalDigit Thunderbolt Station
USpeed 7 Port 3.0 USB Hub
Seagate 3TB USB 3.0 External HDD
Through the years...
Alright, here are my various desks through the years...
First up is in the college dorms in 1997. The desk wasn't an 'L' shaped desk, so I made it one by using a bookshelf shelf stretched between the desk and the bed.
That is a generic homebuilt PC, probably a Pentium MMX (the picture *MIGHT* be new enough that it was a Pentium II, but I don't recall for sure.) I also was one of the extraordinarily few students on campus to have a laptop - I started with a hand-me-down grayscale 386, but in 1998 got a hand-me-down PowerBook 5300c.
Next up is the first location of my desk in my current house, circa 2001. (Pictures taken by my son, who saw me editing what used to be my avatar, the distributed.net cow, and decided to pile some stuffed cows on top and start taking pictures.)
I couldn't find any good pictures of the places I lived between college and my current house. One was living with a friend after coming back from college - we were both geeks, and the basement was one large "computer room". Then I lived in a condo in the suburbs near work, but none of the pictures are good quality from then.
This picture shows an original iMac (purchased used,) and my PC (by this point, it was a dual Xeon.) Not seen, but also in the 'cabinet' part of the desk, is a beige G3 tower that I purchased used when OS X came out to be my OS X 'play machine'. The iMac came later.
By 2006, we had made one room into a home office, as I was running a home-based business. So the desk (and newer computers) had moved in there. This was taken right after I bought the MacBook Pro (ordered on launch day of the first Intel Macs.)
Of course, soon after declaring that room the "home office", we had a second kid on the way, and by the time she was four, she didn't appreciate her room doing double-duty as the office. (The 'L' extension of the desk, with the MacBook Pro on it, had been removed from the desk by then, but it was still taking up a bit of space for a growing girl.)
In addition to the MacBook Pro is a 12" PowerBook G4 and an eMac ("USB 2.0" model - both the PowerBook and eMac are for sale in the Marketplace.)
In 2008, we did a remodel of the basement, resulting in a better home office. This picture was taken in 2010, and shows the "usual" state of my desk better than most...
At that point, I had a real hodgepodge of systems. My MacBook Pro was still my primary Mac, but I had also turned the big black tower (dual Xeon, roughly equivalent to a 2009 Mac Pro,) into a Hackintosh. I also had a high-end gaming PC inside the 'cabinet' portion of the desk, and you can see some of my non-Mac vintage systems underneath: An SGI Indy, an SGI Challenge-S server (basically an Indy without video,) and an HP PA-RISC system. Also under there is an Atom "net top" that is now my daughter's Minecraft server.)
Next post is my desk in its current form.
Alright, here are my various desks through the years...
First up is in the college dorms in 1997. The desk wasn't an 'L' shaped desk, so I made it one by using a bookshelf shelf stretched between the desk and the bed.
That is a generic homebuilt PC, probably a Pentium MMX (the picture *MIGHT* be new enough that it was a Pentium II, but I don't recall for sure.) I also was one of the extraordinarily few students on campus to have a laptop - I started with a hand-me-down grayscale 386, but in 1998 got a hand-me-down PowerBook 5300c.
Next up is the first location of my desk in my current house, circa 2001. (Pictures taken by my son, who saw me editing what used to be my avatar, the distributed.net cow, and decided to pile some stuffed cows on top and start taking pictures.)
I couldn't find any good pictures of the places I lived between college and my current house. One was living with a friend after coming back from college - we were both geeks, and the basement was one large "computer room". Then I lived in a condo in the suburbs near work, but none of the pictures are good quality from then.
This picture shows an original iMac (purchased used,) and my PC (by this point, it was a dual Xeon.) Not seen, but also in the 'cabinet' part of the desk, is a beige G3 tower that I purchased used when OS X came out to be my OS X 'play machine'. The iMac came later.
By 2006, we had made one room into a home office, as I was running a home-based business. So the desk (and newer computers) had moved in there. This was taken right after I bought the MacBook Pro (ordered on launch day of the first Intel Macs.)
Of course, soon after declaring that room the "home office", we had a second kid on the way, and by the time she was four, she didn't appreciate her room doing double-duty as the office. (The 'L' extension of the desk, with the MacBook Pro on it, had been removed from the desk by then, but it was still taking up a bit of space for a growing girl.)
In addition to the MacBook Pro is a 12" PowerBook G4 and an eMac ("USB 2.0" model - both the PowerBook and eMac are for sale in the Marketplace.)
In 2008, we did a remodel of the basement, resulting in a better home office. This picture was taken in 2010, and shows the "usual" state of my desk better than most...
At that point, I had a real hodgepodge of systems. My MacBook Pro was still my primary Mac, but I had also turned the big black tower (dual Xeon, roughly equivalent to a 2009 Mac Pro,) into a Hackintosh. I also had a high-end gaming PC inside the 'cabinet' portion of the desk, and you can see some of my non-Mac vintage systems underneath: An SGI Indy, an SGI Challenge-S server (basically an Indy without video,) and an HP PA-RISC system. Also under there is an Atom "net top" that is now my daughter's Minecraft server.)
Next post is my desk in its current form.
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