Just rearranged everything...oh yeah, the PC is new... I built it to play games, don't worry I do all my important work on my mac still
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Post Your Mac Setup: Past & Present (Part 3)
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Wow, I love your iMac. It looks amazing, and that desk is awesome. BTW, i love the mini; I got two myself.
Thank you. So you got 2 MINIs...you a member on NAM? Hehe
The brains of the operation: the crackbook pro with 4 gigs of ram.
It sits off to the side to save desk space.
It sits off to the side to save desk space.
Why crackbook??? And please tell me that is not sitting on top of a speaker! If its magnetically shielded then your OK but if it isn't you might find the awful surprise of your hdd being dead.
-Victor
For heaven's sake, the magnets in speakers are nowhere near powerful enough to threaten data integirty of a hard drive. If you strapped a hard drive to the back of an 18" subwoofer it wouldn't blink twice. It's just some stupid urban (internet) rumor,
Posted this elsewhere, but thought I'd share here too.
8x2.8 GHz Mac Pro w/ three ATI 2600 video cards, 30" display. The other monitors are two 24" Gateways and two 17" Samsungs in portrait mode. 2.2 GHz MacBook Pro, and a dual-core 1.8 GHz AMD laptop.
8x2.8 GHz Mac Pro w/ three ATI 2600 video cards, 30" display. The other monitors are two 24" Gateways and two 17" Samsungs in portrait mode. 2.2 GHz MacBook Pro, and a dual-core 1.8 GHz AMD laptop.
Posted this elsewhere, but thought I'd share here too.
8x2.8 GHz Mac Pro w/ three ATI 2600 video cards, 30" display. The other monitors are two 24" Gateways and two 17" Samsungs in portrait mode. 2.2 GHz MacBook Pro, and a dual-core 1.8 GHz AMD laptop.
one of the most unnecessary setups i've ever seen.
I don't see why... when I used my G5 for web design, two 22" monitors didn't give nearly enough screen real estate. I tend to have quite a few windows full of code open, and there just wasn't not enough space to see all the data I needed. I moved up to three 22" monitors when I picked up my my Mac Pro, and it's a huge improvement... but I still tend to have enough windows open to fill up my three monitors. I could easily see a need for five monitors.
Why do you say that? I know plenty of people who need that much screen realeastate, stock traders who need all the news streaming at once, sysadmins who need to monitor logs in realtime, etc. I think it looks nice but some uniformity would make it look nicer (all gateway, all apple, or such)
Well, I posted my setup back in part 1 and this is what it looked like...
PowerBook G3 400 MHz
iPod 30GB
iPod nano 4GB
Now it looks like this...
MacBook C2D 2.2 GHz
iPod touch 16GB
plus the 2 iPods mentioned above
PowerBook G3 400 MHz
iPod 30GB
iPod nano 4GB
Now it looks like this...
MacBook C2D 2.2 GHz
iPod touch 16GB
plus the 2 iPods mentioned above
I would want a big red button which makes missile noises if I had that setup.
Well, I posted my setup back in part 1 and this is what it looked like...
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Your clock has grown
Yeah, I plan to slowly switch over to all Apple.
Edit: Well, I'm thinking two more Apple 30" and two or three 20" silver HPs in portrait mode. It looks like the silver HPs go well with the Apple display in blakespot's pictures from a while back (hopefully I'm thinking of the right fellow).
Yep, it's not really enough space for what I do, but I'm pretty much out of desk. I used to run 8 1280x1024 displays in the days of 17" panels being somewhat pricey. The two 17"s I have left remain from those days. Spaces helps, sort of, though it is not perfect. I use screen in my xterms too, which can help in some situations.
I write clustered software systems, so being able to run 4-6 VMs, watch logs, 3 gdb instances up at once, and see code/documentation/UI is my day-to-day life.
Posted this elsewhere, but thought I'd share here too.
8x2.8 GHz Mac Pro w/ three ATI 2600 video cards, 30" display. The other monitors are two 24" Gateways and two 17" Samsungs in portrait mode. 2.2 GHz MacBook Pro, and a dual-core 1.8 GHz AMD laptop.
What kind of keyboard are you using ?
nicoska
Really, are you sure? how about NOT. My cousins old mini had a 15 min battery life and he had a replacement nano, and I said why not test some stuff like that. I first tried with some fridge magnets and seemed of, then I put it near some Altec Lansing (nearly as big as the ones in the picture) and guess what, the hdd started to cling and do weird sounds later on it showed the sad face icon= dead hdd. And, at my family's company in the computer department they keep all the random screws together using a magnet from a speaker, and its powerful.
-Victor
Anybody with even fundamental qualifications in Physics will know that you're talking absolute rubbish. Try looking up some verbatim figures for the strength of the magnets on the back of speakers rather than "it's powerful because it can hold onto a couple of screws". As a matter of fact, the magnets INSIDE the hard drive itself subject the drive's workings to more intense magnetic fields than even a substantial, unshielded, subwoofer. The only real danger that a speaker poses to a hard drive is that of vibration. Please do some research before needlessly scaring people next time.
I just said that I found out that it killed the hdd in an iPod mini, and said that it could (based on my experience) kill the hdd in the MBP. I don't care about all the potentially BS things you just said, if that hdd died by other reason rather than the magnetic field inside that speaker then please enlighten me, on second thoughts I rather you didn't. Was it divine intervention? was it a mysterious force? I doubt it.
-Victor
Look, what I'm talking about here is hard irrefutable science. If you took the time to do some reading/research into this matter you would see for yourself that the magnets used in speaker construction do not create magnetic flux densities great enough to alter the data stored on a magnetic disk. If you don't like reading & are a more 'hands on' sort of person, why not find an old hard drive (older the better), open it up & have a play around with the magnet used on the head arm to see just how strong it is. And this is a magnet literally inside the drive, almost touching the platters.
To clarify for the other forum members;
Magnetic fields from speakers, even those that are both large & unshielded in anyway, pose virtually no threat to the data on a hard drive whatsoever. The metal casing of the computer & the shielding of the hard drive itself are more than sufficient to further guarantee the integrity of your data. More threat is posed from vibrations than by their magnetic field.
It's actually a Kinesis Freestyle. Really great to have some space between the two halves.
Dont forget AL Gore and his tri 30s! Wonder how much carbon footprint that is!!
Gore's setup is pretty nice. I would love to figure out how to get more screen real estate into a useful format. The problem is running out of horizontal room, what do you do? Put the keyboard and chair onto a platform that moves with the chair so you can turn and look at more displays? Sort of sounds like the PoeticTech desks but with the monitors stationary.
I've tried vertically stacking monitors in the past, but it's just too overwhelming. I ran a 4 wide/2 high grid for a while, but I could never get used to it for writing code.
My system now is about 108" wide of screen. It's the limit for width when sitting back about 25-30". Of course, the farther back one sits, the larger the fonts need to be.
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