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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:
View attachment 2515838 Is power free where you live?
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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.
 
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