Post Your Mac Setup: Past & Present (Part 5)

[iJohnHenry]

Yesterday looks good to me.

Why play with it??

 

[UMHurricanes34]

What'd you do with the iMac?

The iMac moved into another room of the house to replace the last standing PC.


And I mainly upgraded due to the upgradeability of the MP and also because of reliability issues I was experiencing with the iMac. I use my Mac for a load of graphic design work and the iMac was just being a pain in the ass. Its probably a bad unit but it'll serve fine as a casual user computer in the other room.


Plus I had the money from insurance from my stolen PB to put towards it.

 

[SkyBell]

The iMac moved into another room of the house to replace the last standing PC.


And I mainly upgraded due to the upgradeability of the MP and also because of reliability issues I was experiencing with the iMac. I use my Mac for a load of graphic design work and the iMac was just being a pain in the ass. Its probably a bad unit but it'll serve fine as a casual user computer in the other room.


Plus I had the money from insurance from my stolen PB to put towards it.

Sorry about the PB, but I'm glad you got a Mac Pro out of it.

This is my little humble setup.
12" iBook G4, 1.33 GHz, 512 MB RAM, 40 GB HDD, Tiger 10.4.11
13" AT&T CRT
160 GB LaCie FW External HDD
Some cheapo mouse I bought for $2 on eBay. (Hey, it works! )

 

[SamoanDude]

I can't do a past, but heres my present setup

 

[xraydoc]

Its still a work in progress, but here's the fun project I've been working on.

 

[Xander562]

School Theater Setup

I know that there are a ton of pictures that aren't exactly mac things, but this one is for the theater junkies. Here are a buch pictures of my MacBook along with the school's PowerBook G4, the light board (ETC Express 48/96), the sound board (Soundcraft GB4 I believe), and the projector controls, I'm not sure of the PowerBook's specs, but the MacBook is the same as above...

Hey man, these pictures are great. I never thought I'd see some theatre setups here. I hope people will post some more. I specialize in sound myself but know a good bit of lighting, spotlights and everything else. What do you do mostly? My school has an ETC Expression 3 lighting console and an old discontinued Crest Audio soundboard. I'll try and get some pictures of my setup on monday.

 

[JML42691]

Hey man, these pictures are great. I never thought I'd see some theatre setups here. I hope people will post some more. I specialize in sound myself but know a good bit of lighting, spotlights and everything else. What do you do mostly? My school has an ETC Expression 3 lighting console and an old discontinued Crest Audio soundboard. I'll try and get some pictures of my setup on monday.

I mainly specialize in lighting design, intelligent lights, spotlights, lightboard controls, and video projections in the theater, I can get the very basics set up with the sound, but when it comes to equalizing the microphones, I am lost in another world. It is a fun theater (only a year old too), but wasn't designed primarily for drama productions, it was made to be a multi-function theater, so a lot of drama things were cut when they built it: fly space, small stage (the area behind the curtain is only about 15 feet deep), extremely small wings, no sceneshop near the theater, an awkward crossover, uncontrollable LED lights in the house that prevent us from having a blackout, along with a few other things, but it is a fun place to work in.

 

[simplenation]

 

[Eric Lewis]

u sure thatst 30"? looks smaller

 

[simplenation]

its a 23 lol, I had a deal to buy a used 30 but it fell through.

 

[UMHurricanes34]

Some more Aperture fun

 

[ibookluv111]

This is my setup...
-iBook G4 1.2ghz, 768MB RAM, 30GB HD, Airport Extreme, USB Bluetooth
-USB Apple PRO Keyboard
-Wireless Mighty Mouse
-Dell 19inch LCD monitor
-(crappy) Altech Lansing speakers

I'm planning on upgrading the memory and HD in my iBook and possibly getting the Logitech Z4 or Z4i speaker system. I run the iBook as a normal laptop or in "desktop mode" underneath my desk, in the keyboard drawer.
(sorry about the pictures, world's most crappy camera. Anyone want a Pentax Optio 330gs? lol)

Picture One
Picture Two
Picture Three
(Hosted by Media Fire because they were too large to upload here =])

 

[Benjamindaines]

This is my setup...
-iBook G4 1.2ghz, 768MB RAM, 30GB HD, Airport Extreme, USB Bluetooth
-USB Apple PRO Keyboard
-Wireless Mighty Mouse
-Dell 19inch LCD monitor
-(crappy) Altech Lansing speakers

I'm planning on upgrading the memory and HD in my iBook and possibly getting the Logitech Z4 or Z4i speaker system. I run the iBook as a normal laptop or in "desktop mode" underneath my desk, in the keyboard drawer.
(sorry about the pictures, world's most crappy camera. Anyone want a Pentax Optio 330gs? lol)

Picture One
Picture Two
Picture Three
(Hosted by Media Fire because they were too large to upload here =])

Check this out to get that screen running at a higher resolution. Remember to always leave your screen open though.

 

[TIGOS]

Some more Aperture fun

Please... share this wall

 

[ibookluv111]

Lol. I am already running that. I can change the resolution higher, but then it doesn't fill the entire screen! And my screen is open =]

 

[UMHurricanes34]

Please... share this wall

You can get it thanks to mikelcroft here.

 

[eXan]

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Link to the picture on the MBP's screen?

 

[Xander562]

I mainly specialize in lighting design, intelligent lights, spotlights, lightboard controls, and video projections in the theater, I can get the very basics set up with the sound, but when it comes to equalizing the microphones, I am lost in another world. It is a fun theater (only a year old too), but wasn't designed primarily for drama productions, it was made to be a multi-function theater, so a lot of drama things were cut when they built it: fly space, small stage (the area behind the curtain is only about 15 feet deep), extremely small wings, no sceneshop near the theater, an awkward crossover, uncontrollable LED lights in the house that prevent us from having a blackout, along with a few other things, but it is a fun place to work in.

Aww that's a shame. The theatre at my school is rather large, however the play productions are not held in it. Oddly enough they are held in a very sad excuse for a theatre remodeled from parts of the auto shop buidlings on the other end of campus. But the theatre I work in is quite old (original to the school and we think built before the 1930s) as it survived the Long Beach Earthquake of 1933. So it's basically crumbling bit by bit. But thats so awesome you're into technical theatre as well. Do you know of any good forums? I haven't found many.

Here are a few pics of my theatre, I'll take better ones on monday.

Lots of stage/wing space. I think it's 100'x50'

Also lots of fly space

We like to play games on the big screen in our free time.

And to still make it relevant to this thread a pic of our sound booth.

 

[smithlua]

Finally got the mini dvi to dvi adapter and my second lcd is connected. It's a Samsung 22" but I added a Dell adjustable stand I got off eBay for about $10. Much better than the original Samsung stand. Oh, the iMac is a 24" 2.4 with 4gb. Speakers are Logitech z-2300 and they rock! Also have an old pc in the left compartment, but it's only used if I have to log in to work remotely.

 

[OnTrack Studios]

New addition to my lil Mac family: iMac G4 17"-800MHZ-80GBhd-768RAM

I'm currently updating to OSX 10.3 from 10.2.8. I need to get ahold of a Tiger disc or I might just jump to Leopard, any suggestions?

 

[mdwsta4]

set up still looks the same, but my MBP now has 2.5 times more hard drive space! installed a the wd 320gb hd this weekend.

i bought a pair of audio engine A2 speakers, but doubt i'll be using them for the computer. instead i plan on getting rid of my surround sound and connecting them to my TV. speaking of which, what's the easiest/cheapest way to connect my computer to my LCD tv?

my mbp along with the desk at my dad's house (and his first mac)... an air

and since i've been asked this a handful of times, the invisible shield in installed on the bottom of my mbp so i don't get anymore scratches.

cheers,
m

 

[JML42691]

^Great setup, may I ask, how seamless did the restore go through Time Machine? Was it all that noticeable of a difference after you installed it (i.e. what didn't the backup restore)?

 

[Ricky Smith]

For all you Theater people out there you'll want to check out controlbooth.com for a good message forum.

 

[brownie]

*snip*

Very nice setup.
If you don't mind, could you please tell me what desk you have got and where you got it from?

 

[iMpathetic]

You guys know how I have like a bajillion posts in these threads?

I haven't posted my setup very much at all lately. However, in five days, that will all change.

Sneak preview: (Well, specs anyway...)

- One quad-core Jesus box (Q6600, P5K-E, 4GB Corsair, 2 120GB HDDs in RAID, XFX 8600GT, Antec Twelve Hundred case)
- One dual-core disciple box (Pentium D 2.8GHz, 2GB Corsair, 80GB HDD, ASUS 8500GT, Ultra Aluminus case)
- one iBook G4

I can't wait! Yay!