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Post Your Mac Setup: Past & Present (Part 20)
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My two 27 inch Imac's. the one on the left, it the newest....the 5K
Nice, but that calculator looks like it was built in the 70's!
It took me years to convince Mrs AFB to move on from hand written calendars. Got there in the end.
Great work on the wood furnitureDid some changes to my SetupEvery Furniture you see is build be Me&my Dad
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My desk. Hard to stand back far enough to take it all in.
Mid 2011 Mac Mini i5 2.3ghz running 10.11.6 El Capitan with 16gb RAM and 512gb Samsung SSD
3 x LG 24inch E2441 running at 1920x1080. Wallpaper is a panorama of Singapore.
4 x WD 3tb Firewire 800 external drives, 1 x WD 2tb Firewire 800 external drive
Logitech K811 Keyboard + Apple Magic Mouse 2. Webcam isn't plugged in anymore due to lack of USB ports and I haven't got around to upgrading my old usb hub. Is a Belkin iphone dock attached (out of view) and a few other external hard drives for various things that are not connected anymore. I also keep the keyboard powered all the time cause it annoys me that the backlight turns off after a few seconds of inactivity.
Speakers are Logitech something or others that don't sound too bad are hiding behind the monitors and the sub is on the floor on the desk. It's about what you'd expect for apartment living (not too loud to annoy the neighbours).
Room is mostly dark with Ikea LED strips around the back of my desk and in other shelves in the room to provide ambient lighting. It's not the best setup i've had over the years but with a small amount of space it's not too bad. I'd like to upgrade the Mac Mini at some point as it's really showing it's age running very hot most of the time with constant network dropouts but it's on the back burner for now. Also need to find a good replacement for the firewire drives if I upgrade due to nothing coming with Firewire for a while now.
Besides that I have a 2016 MacBook Pro 13" i7 with 16gb RAM, 500gb SSD (new) upgrading from a 2015 MacBook and an iPhone 7 Matte Black with 256gb storage. Lots of other Apple stuff in the house in storage or belonging to wife and her family.
My work setup is much the same as above with a standard Apple Wireless keyboard, Samsung 22" displays and none of the external hard drives. The Mac Mini is the same spec with a smaller SSD.
Standard view
Side view to fit the monitors in
4 x 3tb Firewire 800 + 1 x 2tb Firewire 800 for the curious it's an Air New Zealand B777-200 model plane and the turtle and rock are from Fiji.
Night view with LED back lighting.
Mid 2011 Mac Mini i5 2.3ghz running 10.11.6 El Capitan with 16gb RAM and 512gb Samsung SSD
3 x LG 24inch E2441 running at 1920x1080. Wallpaper is a panorama of Singapore.
4 x WD 3tb Firewire 800 external drives, 1 x WD 2tb Firewire 800 external drive
Logitech K811 Keyboard + Apple Magic Mouse 2. Webcam isn't plugged in anymore due to lack of USB ports and I haven't got around to upgrading my old usb hub. Is a Belkin iphone dock attached (out of view) and a few other external hard drives for various things that are not connected anymore. I also keep the keyboard powered all the time cause it annoys me that the backlight turns off after a few seconds of inactivity.
Speakers are Logitech something or others that don't sound too bad are hiding behind the monitors and the sub is on the floor on the desk. It's about what you'd expect for apartment living (not too loud to annoy the neighbours).
Room is mostly dark with Ikea LED strips around the back of my desk and in other shelves in the room to provide ambient lighting. It's not the best setup i've had over the years but with a small amount of space it's not too bad. I'd like to upgrade the Mac Mini at some point as it's really showing it's age running very hot most of the time with constant network dropouts but it's on the back burner for now. Also need to find a good replacement for the firewire drives if I upgrade due to nothing coming with Firewire for a while now.
Besides that I have a 2016 MacBook Pro 13" i7 with 16gb RAM, 500gb SSD (new) upgrading from a 2015 MacBook and an iPhone 7 Matte Black with 256gb storage. Lots of other Apple stuff in the house in storage or belonging to wife and her family.
My work setup is much the same as above with a standard Apple Wireless keyboard, Samsung 22" displays and none of the external hard drives. The Mac Mini is the same spec with a smaller SSD.
Standard view
Side view to fit the monitors in
4 x 3tb Firewire 800 + 1 x 2tb Firewire 800 for the curious it's an Air New Zealand B777-200 model plane and the turtle and rock are from Fiji.
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Back when I finished my new office and my desk was still clean!
Trash Can Mac w/ 8 Core Xeon processor and 64Gb of RAM and dual Thunder Bolt displays, with an extra 23" HP Monitor and a 4k 49" LG TV out of frame.
Trash Can Mac w/ 8 Core Xeon processor and 64Gb of RAM and dual Thunder Bolt displays, with an extra 23" HP Monitor and a 4k 49" LG TV out of frame.
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Here is my current set up, as posted in reddits r/macsetups. More can be seen in my imagur album here: http://imgur.com/a/6wSCm
-21.5" iMac Late 2013 480GB SSD, 16GB, 2.7GHz i5; (macOS 10.12.3)
-ASUS 23” External Monitor
-12.9" iPad Pro 128GB (10.2.2)
-Some of my framed stuff: my High School Diploma, CompTIA N+, completion of a medical program, a Computer Programming Specialist Certificate from my college.
-Donald Trump Ballot box.
-21.5" iMac Late 2013 480GB SSD, 16GB, 2.7GHz i5; (macOS 10.12.3)
-ASUS 23” External Monitor
-12.9" iPad Pro 128GB (10.2.2)
-Some of my framed stuff: my High School Diploma, CompTIA N+, completion of a medical program, a Computer Programming Specialist Certificate from my college.
-Donald Trump Ballot box.
I am a Yankees fan. I bought that ball at game 7 of the playoff series in which the Red Sox came back from 1-3 game deficit to win. Dark day!
Heck of a misbegotten journey the Yankees took, they kind of lost their way. Red Sox fan here.
Hey guys,
Thought I'd update you with my new desk setup since I just got my first WQHD/wide-gamut monitor, the Dell U2713H.
This is the work side of the room:
This is usually how my desk looks when I'm in the middle of drawing and whatnot. I actually prefer to draw with a pen on actual paper. And, then, finish the rest by scanning it in. But, I am also a photographer, aspiring video editor, sometimes I paint, etc....
And, now, the fun side of the room:
I just have games installed on there. The second screen on there (Asus PA238Q) used to be my main screen on the Mac.
Thought I'd update you with my new desk setup since I just got my first WQHD/wide-gamut monitor, the Dell U2713H.
This is the work side of the room:
This is usually how my desk looks when I'm in the middle of drawing and whatnot. I actually prefer to draw with a pen on actual paper. And, then, finish the rest by scanning it in. But, I am also a photographer, aspiring video editor, sometimes I paint, etc....
And, now, the fun side of the room:
I just have games installed on there. The second screen on there (Asus PA238Q) used to be my main screen on the Mac.
Here's my current setup:
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I live in a tiny house. Only 600 sq feet. Everything needs to have at least 2 purposes. So this is my standing desk/bar height counter extension desk/ kitchen TV. With a ergotron arm.
This is the view from kitchen while I cook.
2012 Mac mini i5 with 1tb SSD and 16 GB RAM
32 inch HP 1440p monitor
Logitech thx 2.1 speaker system (sub hidden in kitchen island)
Amazon echo dot with dedicated Bose SoundLink.
iPad pro 128 GB
Apple watch
Beats studio wireless headphones
Not pictured 2015 MBPr. iPad air, and lots of camera gear.
Awaiting delivery of magic track pad 2.
Nothing amazing but it is mine, and allows me to have a office in a tiny space so I am happy.
This is the view from kitchen while I cook.
2012 Mac mini i5 with 1tb SSD and 16 GB RAM
32 inch HP 1440p monitor
Logitech thx 2.1 speaker system (sub hidden in kitchen island)
Amazon echo dot with dedicated Bose SoundLink.
iPad pro 128 GB
Apple watch
Beats studio wireless headphones
Not pictured 2015 MBPr. iPad air, and lots of camera gear.
Awaiting delivery of magic track pad 2.
Nothing amazing but it is mine, and allows me to have a office in a tiny space so I am happy.
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Just removed a bunch a couple days ago. I didn't realize how ridiculous it looked until I uploaded the photos. lolYou need some more icons on that dock!
Hi all,
Here's my current setup in the home office department :
The MBP is an i7 16 GB ram 512 GB SSD
The mac pros are :
3x 5.1, two 48 GB ram, one 64 GB ram, all two 4TB disk drives
1x 3.1, 4 GB ram. 4x 512GB drives in RAID 5
It's a lot of fun
BTW, I made the furniture
Here's my current setup in the home office department :
The MBP is an i7 16 GB ram 512 GB SSD
The mac pros are :
3x 5.1, two 48 GB ram, one 64 GB ram, all two 4TB disk drives
1x 3.1, 4 GB ram. 4x 512GB drives in RAID 5
It's a lot of fun
BTW, I made the furniture
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Hi all,
Here's my current setup in the home office department :
The MBP is an i7 16 GB ram 512 GB SSD
The mac pros are :
3x 5.1, two 48 GB ram, one 64 GB ram, all two 4TB disk drives
1x 3.1, 4 GB ram. 4x 512GB drives in RAID 5
It's a lot of fun
BTW, I made the furniture
Impressive setup, so many Mac Pros, if you don't mind me asking, what do you use them for?
The 3.1 is my personal webserver / loadbalancer to the other three. Its connected to the internet
The other three hold a bunch of virtual machines that comprise the several layers of a web application (application servers, Databases, distributed caches). They are used for software development and testing (resilience, failover, etc). I know I could use regular pc hardware for that, but don't they look nice ?
I just love these towers, pitty that they moved to trash cans.I am also delving into the field of big data, and the three 5.1's are used for holding hadoop and friends, I generate the data myself and store it into these softwares, that are then used to make fast searches.
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