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Post Your Mac Setup: Past & Present (Part 20)
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Tarmac SL7 with SRAM Red eTap wireless shifting and hydraulic brakes. Brake lines are all internal.
Trainer setup is a Wahoo Kickr, great for the winter months here in Wisconsin running TrainerRoad or Zwift.
-KP
Definitely not the cleanest of setups by any means, but at least it's something.
If it weren't for the awful monitor, I'd totally use the MacBook in closed-display mode.
- M1 MBA with 16 GB of RAM, 256 GB of storage
- What I'll usually have plugged into the USB-C hub:
- WD 4 TB MyBook
- SanDisk Extreme Portable 1 TB SSD
- Ethernet
- Mixer
- Didn't have it plugged in when I took the picture, but I have an Apple MultiPort adapter where I plug in the Razer mechanical keyboard. Not a problem since the MultiPort adapter provides charging passthrough.
- REALLY bad HP 21.5" monitor, planning on replacing at some point, but to be honest, I don't care about the awful TN 1080p panel.
- Mackie CR3 speakers. Not very high-end, but good enough for me.
- AKG C214 condenser mic
- I've also got the Yamaha P-115 Digital Piano, had it for around 6 years, and I have no plans to get rid of it - just such a good piece of musical equipment. I know, it's no where near a Nord or high-end Yamaha YC88, etc., but I still love it. I also use it as a MIDI controller, although it doesn't have a mod wheel, but whatever.
If it weren't for the awful monitor, I'd totally use the MacBook in closed-display mode.
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Thanks. I just took it online and then worked for a Mac Technician for a year. To my knowledge it's no longer offered to the general public, and you much be apart of an Authorized Apple Repair centre to write the two exams.
Very nice set up this!Tarmac SL7 with SRAM Red eTap wireless shifting and hydraulic brakes. Brake lines are all internal.
Trainer setup is a Wahoo Kickr, great for the winter months here in Wisconsin running TrainerRoad or Zwift.
-KP
OK I'll bite. Here's the evolution of my Mac setup since 1984. Unlike a lot of you guys, I don't spend a lot of energy on aesthetics -- mine is a very practical, everyday kind of setup, with lots of messy desktops and tangles of wires.
1) My first Mac -- a 128 KB OG Macintosh. This photo is from April of 1984. Note the box of floppies on the (IRL) desktop. Ever-present, since with this machine you were constantly swapping floppy disks in and out of the computer.
2) June of '86 -- Now we've got a 512K Mac in addition to the 128K original. Note the addition of a modem and what looks like a hard disk, but is actually a tape backup system. Photo is a screen grab taken with MacVision, one of the first programs that allowed you to take photos and import them into the Mac. Progress!
3) Now we're talking! Still have the 128K and the 512K Mac, but there's a shiny new Mac IIfx on the left, mostly obscured by me and my mid-80's hat. There are a bunch of (by today's standards) tiny hard disks stacked around and under the Macs. I think it all totals maybe close to 500 MB. Also note that there are now two (!) modems on the shelf, both of them US Robotics 9600 baud screamers. By this time, I was using the older Macs to run a Mac-oriented BBS system (anyone remember BBS systems?). This photo is from November of 1988.
4) January 1999. For many years, in the '90's and early '00's, I worked from home. I designed this office specifically for this purpose, so many of the components of this system (external hard disks, backup systems) are hidden in cabinets below and to the left of what's visible on the desk. On the left is a work-issued IBM PC. On the right, a Power PC G3. Not visible behind the seating area is a Toshiba MS-DOS laptop. At the time, I was running a lot of cost-analysis models -- very CPU intensive, taking sometimes days to run. I asked my son (who was, and is, much more of a techie than I) to build me the fastest machine possible. The Toshiba was the result (and it was, indeed, really fast for the times).
5) Approaching modern times. This was kind of a temporary setup. I was living in Washington DC at the time, on a consulting gig. I was using a MacBook Pro and plugging it into the Cinema Display when I got home at night. Note the iPod on the charging stand atop the stereo tuner/amp at the left, and just below that, my Treo smartphone. That's a TV on the right. Photo is from December of 2005.
6) This is today (3/28/2022). Moving left to right, that's the end of a Canon Pro-100 printer, a MagSafe charging stand for my iPhone, a stack of an older Mac mini and a new M1 Mac mini, a 4 TB disk that I use for backups, an ASUS monitor, Logitech keyboard and Apple Magic Trackpad, a Davis Vantage Vue weather station console, and a Vizio TV monitor. Altogether, there's something like 50 TB of storage hooked up (most of it living in a data closet that isn't in the camera view). We've come a long way since 1984!
1) My first Mac -- a 128 KB OG Macintosh. This photo is from April of 1984. Note the box of floppies on the (IRL) desktop. Ever-present, since with this machine you were constantly swapping floppy disks in and out of the computer.
2) June of '86 -- Now we've got a 512K Mac in addition to the 128K original. Note the addition of a modem and what looks like a hard disk, but is actually a tape backup system. Photo is a screen grab taken with MacVision, one of the first programs that allowed you to take photos and import them into the Mac. Progress!
3) Now we're talking! Still have the 128K and the 512K Mac, but there's a shiny new Mac IIfx on the left, mostly obscured by me and my mid-80's hat. There are a bunch of (by today's standards) tiny hard disks stacked around and under the Macs. I think it all totals maybe close to 500 MB. Also note that there are now two (!) modems on the shelf, both of them US Robotics 9600 baud screamers. By this time, I was using the older Macs to run a Mac-oriented BBS system (anyone remember BBS systems?). This photo is from November of 1988.
4) January 1999. For many years, in the '90's and early '00's, I worked from home. I designed this office specifically for this purpose, so many of the components of this system (external hard disks, backup systems) are hidden in cabinets below and to the left of what's visible on the desk. On the left is a work-issued IBM PC. On the right, a Power PC G3. Not visible behind the seating area is a Toshiba MS-DOS laptop. At the time, I was running a lot of cost-analysis models -- very CPU intensive, taking sometimes days to run. I asked my son (who was, and is, much more of a techie than I) to build me the fastest machine possible. The Toshiba was the result (and it was, indeed, really fast for the times).
5) Approaching modern times. This was kind of a temporary setup. I was living in Washington DC at the time, on a consulting gig. I was using a MacBook Pro and plugging it into the Cinema Display when I got home at night. Note the iPod on the charging stand atop the stereo tuner/amp at the left, and just below that, my Treo smartphone. That's a TV on the right. Photo is from December of 2005.
6) This is today (3/28/2022). Moving left to right, that's the end of a Canon Pro-100 printer, a MagSafe charging stand for my iPhone, a stack of an older Mac mini and a new M1 Mac mini, a 4 TB disk that I use for backups, an ASUS monitor, Logitech keyboard and Apple Magic Trackpad, a Davis Vantage Vue weather station console, and a Vizio TV monitor. Altogether, there's something like 50 TB of storage hooked up (most of it living in a data closet that isn't in the camera view). We've come a long way since 1984!
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Picture on the wall is a painting that I've had for a number of years by a close friend; Tom Besson (http://tombesson.com). It portrays the joy when a thunderstorm relieves a late summer drought on the Central Texas prairie. I know I surely feel like going outside and dancing naked when the day goes from 100°+ temps and parched air to a cooling rain in a matter of minutes...
Love the desk. Any more info on it?I've posted various setups on this thread over the years, but my latest is thesetup I've always wanted. Hello Studio Display!
- M1 MacBook Air (Gold)
- Studio Display (finally!!!)
- AirPods Max (Space Gray)
- HomePod (no idea why its discontinued because its tremendous)
- Apple Watch Series 4 (Gold Stainless Steel)
- Grovemade Leather Desk Pad (tan)
- Shot on iPhone 13 Pro (Gold)
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Man you’d feel RIGHT at home in the Caribbean doing exactly that! Since my early childhood visits to jamrock that’s exactly what the entire island does for a few minutes of rainfall.
Love your evolutionary, and REAL working setup … the second pic has you looking like a digital Indiana Jones preparing for the next quest. You really were on the cutting edge back in the early to mid 80’s and bravo for never, ever forgetting …
It’s Miller time!
Latest Desk Setup with Keyboard Slider
Keyboard Slider is mounted on monitor arm:
My MacBook Pro looks as thin as MacBook Air when placed on this stand:
- M1 MacBook Pro
- Asus PA32UCX
- Apple Pro Speakers
- CalDigit TS4
Keyboard Slider is mounted on monitor arm:
My MacBook Pro looks as thin as MacBook Air when placed on this stand:
That is a really nice monitor! I also like the slide-out keyboard thing.
Thanks for making my keyboard slider for me. I will await the delivery. Feel free to make another one for yourself!
PS: What is on the CalDigit TS4? Can't tell...
Your desk lighting is so cool even the sky was like, "hold up let me match the aesthetic"
Thanks for making my keyboard slider for me. I will await the delivery. Feel free to make another one for yourself!
PS: What is on the CalDigit TS4? Can't tell...
Looks like a heat sink.
I put a heat sink on it because I feel more heat than TS3 Plus.Thanks for making my keyboard slider for me. I will await the delivery. Feel free to make another one for yourself!
PS: What is on the CalDigit TS4? Can't tell...
New double vesa mount arm for my Studio Display and Dell u2515h to work from home, attached to 2019 MacBook Pro 16".
LOL, what a world we live in when our hubs need their own heat sink. Bravo to you, I have heard they need them!
Curious, any reflection on the monitor(s) while in use?
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New double vesa mount arm for my Studio Display and Dell u2515h to work from home, attached to 2019 MacBook Pro 16".
Regardless, loving the natural light from the window.
The windows are on the side, and the monitor is facing a white wall. So I don’t see any reflections when right in front of it.
Since those windows are more then 2 meters tall, I do need the 600 nits brightness on a sunny day, even while those windows are facing north.
if 600 nits looks good than I bet if you had the 1000 nit XDR it would be incredible.
