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Post Your Mac Setup: Past & Present (Part 20)

As I'm moving out in the next few days I had to reduce my setup to a bare minimum and packed everything in boxes. Somehow I like how simple and minimalistic it looks. But for sure I miss the additional display space I had on both sides with the rotated 20" ACD's. Will figure out how my setup will look in my new home.

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Little update... added the X-Touch controller to interface with my X32 rack (bottom right) so now I can use physical sliders and buttons... instead of using a mixing app on my Mac Mini. Now... all I need is the X-Touch and iPad to adjust my mixes.

Also added the fake plant behind the iPad... Stole it from my wife's office...🫣 she wasn't happy...💀

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BigJohno said:
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No. But I live in Phoenix, AZ. It's not my computers/displays that dominate my electric bill - it's air conditioning. Particularly in the summer.

I'll caveat all this though by saying that winter bills are usually around $130 for a 1600sq foot two bedroom home. That isn't anything that bothers me, but I imagine WOULD bother a single person used to paying much less than $100 a month in the summer. But there are three other people in the house.

Summer, especially August, is when we get hit the worst. AC bills hit around $450-500 during the summer. But it's PHX. AC is a necessity, much like a furnace is in the east during winter.
 
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eyoungren said:
No. But I live in Phoenix, AZ. It's not my computers/displays that dominate my electric bill - it's air conditioning. Particularly in the summer.

I'll caveat all this though by saying that winter bills are usually around $130 for a 1600sq foot two bedroom home. That isn't anything that bothers me, but I imagine WOULD bother a single person used to paying much less than $100 a month in the summer. But there are three other people in the house.

Summer, especially August, is when we get hit the worst. AC bills hit around $450-500 during the summer. But it's PHX. AC is a necessity, much like a furnace is in the east during winter.
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How much do those Cinema Displays contribute to your AC bill?
 
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TechAndOSWorld said:
How much do those Cinema Displays contribute to your AC bill?
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Hmmmm…

Before February 2025 I was running six displays, which included the four Cinemas, the TV and another TV (now in the garage). Adding an additional 3 Cinemas, one of which replaced the other TV and two additional monitors has added, I think, around an additional $30. Can't be quite sure how much, but the bill hasn't overly been affected by the additions.

Current electric bill is $370. Last months's bill was around $278 I think. But we've been running AC since April.

I really do need to get the central AC fixed. Since 2020, when the central AC unit died, we've been using portable and in window AC units. But at $6,500 to $8,000 or so, with one of us having unstable employment since that time, it just hasn't been doable yet.
 
Man, I've participated in this thread over the years a couple of times, and I can't believe the hardware I had in the past has lasted me this long, and that only recently I have replaced the old mac pro server in the corner that's finally having bootup problems, and the 24" imac that's just so slow it feels like a raccoon died in it, and the freezing 2017 imac .. anyway. I am all apple silicon now, and I can't currently imagine anything else.

M1 mac mini as a quick fix to the maxed out iMac, and it kept up and then some, I was convinced, not long after I got the M2 Pro, and run that as the daily. Then I was convinced 100% that no studio or maxed out system is needed for what I did. BUT .. when they introduced the m4 max and in that pretty black, I had to get it with 64gb ram so I can run all my virtualization and test instances on it without compromise. Yep, M4 Pro mac mini and M4 Max MBP acquired.

My table is filled with network and thunderbolt cables and mac minis, 3d printers and an old imac and a single mouse/ keyboard and monitor to control it all. Crazy.. I hope this is it for a while and I don't find another excuse to buy something newer.. because it's all running great, great .. and did I say it's all running great? Even the M1 ..

This summer it's cable management time, 3d print some vertical stand support and a box to keep the switches in place, etc. Because I can't even use the table properly right now.

But, got the router upgraded to 2,5gbit one, and cables to cat 6e, and a few switches - separated the media from the computer stuff, and the servers on their own vlan, and daily driver on it's isolated vlan, and IoT on a second old router that has no internet, but I can control from 1 machine and 1 phone. And scanners, printers, and 3d printers are on a switch that's only accessible from the MacBook pro.

So, time to get a mini-homelab rack to put the router, bridges, switches, and mac minis in. And retire that imac to the hobby room, and patiently wait for apple to release their new display monitor update. And then do some cable management and move the 3d printer to the hobby room with the imac.
 

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