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Post Your Mac Setup: Past & Present (Part 19)
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Here is my current desk.
Having been unemployed for a couple weeks now has given me time to clean and organize it. :roll eyes: (Also, panorama taken with the iPhone, sorry, I 'wiggled' a few times.)
From left: iMac G4 17" (the model that can still boot Mac OS 9,) Aluminum iMac 20" with 2.6 GHz Core 2 Duo CPU upgrade, second monitor connected to the Aluminum iMac, G4 Cube w/ Cinema Display.
(Also, does anyone know how to either *ONLY* have attachments show in-line, or at least hide the previews of "Attached Thumbnails" at the bottom of the post?)
Having been unemployed for a couple weeks now has given me time to clean and organize it. :roll eyes: (Also, panorama taken with the iPhone, sorry, I 'wiggled' a few times.)
From left: iMac G4 17" (the model that can still boot Mac OS 9,) Aluminum iMac 20" with 2.6 GHz Core 2 Duo CPU upgrade, second monitor connected to the Aluminum iMac, G4 Cube w/ Cinema Display.
(Also, does anyone know how to either *ONLY* have attachments show in-line, or at least hide the previews of "Attached Thumbnails" at the bottom of the post?)
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Picked up a new retina and the little monitor shelf thing. Super simple, does the job for when I work at home.
Is that a TwelveSouth stand you are using with the rMBP? If so, should it be leaning like that?
Was trying to convince myself not to do something similar, and then you went ahead and posted this...Must resist temptation.
Nice set up. Basic but very functional. I am looking to do something fairly similiar myself, I don't really have enough space but you have shown it can be down well!
Yeah, I have the mStand, so maybe he thought I quoted another pic... The picture I quoted appears to be using the Twelvesouth, but doesn't appear to fit right. Maybe it was a TwelveSouth for cMBP and had not switched it out for the rMBP version when he upgraded.
I'm intrigued, what does that mat say in front of your keyboard? Wesley Crushers? What does that mean?
Only curious as my name is Wesley!
I'm intrigued, what does that mat say in front of your keyboard? Wesley Crushers? What does that mean?
Only curious as my name is Wesley!
It's part of a coaster set I got from a friend. It's a reference from the Big Bang Theory TV Show.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTHpXHjTWwM
I'm intrigued, what does that mat say in front of your keyboard? Wesley Crushers? What does that mean?
Only curious as my name is Wesley!
Also, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wesley_Crusher
I'm not sure where she got them, but knowing her I would bet on either Etsy or ThinkGeek.
Why thank you
It gets a little tricky when work comes along, but it does the job brilliantly!
How do you find sitting in front of that 32 inch monitor? I had my 27 inch tv on my desk but it was too close to use comfortably
New to this forum but thought I would post my set up.
Mac Pro 4.1 (Geekbench 16457)
2 x 2.66ghz quad cores (8 cores)
125gb SSD
2 x 1TB HDD
ATI 5870 1gb graphics card
HP 21.5" HD monitor
iPad 4, 32gb 3G
Clamcase pro
iPhone 5 taking the shot....
Really loving the Mac Pro, got it about a month ago and it's a really great bit of kit.
Mac Pro 4.1 (Geekbench 16457)
2 x 2.66ghz quad cores (8 cores)
125gb SSD
2 x 1TB HDD
ATI 5870 1gb graphics card
HP 21.5" HD monitor
iPad 4, 32gb 3G
Clamcase pro
iPhone 5 taking the shot....
Really loving the Mac Pro, got it about a month ago and it's a really great bit of kit.
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dat super mario bros tho!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.
I wasn't sure if I would like it since it was going to be a bigger screen, but lower resolution than what I was used to (27" iMac). I've had the setup for a few weeks now and I think it's great. The lower PPI doesn't really bother me since I use this screen mostly for videos, games, and light browsing.
Was the 27" TV you had 1080P? The reason I ask is that most TVs under 32" are 720P instead of 1080P. There are 1080 ones out there, but it's not as common. If it was 720P then the resolution was probably 1366x768, and on a 27", I can see that being a problem when being used as a monitor. That's almost half the resolution of a standard 27" (2560x1440).
Yup, Super Mario Bros. 3 on a early DOS NES emulator. I was also the only person in the dorms with a CD burner. Made *LOTS* of mix CDs for people for a few bucks - ripping MP3 copies of their CDs in the process. (Hey, this was before Napster, before people widely shared and didn't think it was wrong - my iTunes Library is now 100% legit.)
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