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Post Your Mac Setup: Past & Present (Part 5)
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Getting an entirely new desk setup tonight to take care of some loose ends in the room. Going to get cable organization up to snuff as well. Here's a shot before the change
How do you get your external display to be your primary display? When I try that it don't work. The only thing that works is to mirror both the displays
I have a MacBook Pro with a Samsung 22" display.
I have checked under System prefrences but I can't get my external Samsung display to be my primary display.. Hm.
drewsof07 said:Wallpaper link please
Here you go: http://www.jackrebel.com/minimo-wallpaper/
leftroom said:
In your Displays preference pane, select Arrangement, and then drag the menu bar from your MacBook display to the external display.
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Absolutely gorgeous, do you have a link to the wallpaper?
Also, are your walls painted or is it a wallpaper? I really love the color
Love the setup, is that the iPhone I spy between the MBP and the Mac Pro, or is it not pictured?
As usual, I love your setup, there is just something about it that is amazing.
I posted mine a while back, but I assume that you just posted that to boost your post count as your habit has been today (to get to the PRSI forum), but anyways, here is the link to my setup I posted a while ago in this thread, if you are actually looking for a MacBook setup:
My Setup Link
Beautiful. Simple, elegant, powerful, and a nice dark color scheme. I wish I could make my room as amazing as some of the setups here, but I just don't have the room (it sucks living in a bedroom right under the roof in a twin; low ceilings and weird room angles).
Also beautiful. Simple, clean, yet it looks real. Very nice.
Kudos for the Octane
Yeah - my Octane is a lot of fun. It's only a dual 300MHz R12K, but it still wipes the floor with my 1.5GHz G4 in floating point math.
I love the O2. Incidentally, there's an O2 sitting in that same room out of view. It's a 200MHz R5000, which makes it a little too slow for browsing. However I use it to provide a CD-ROM drive for network installs on the Octane, and because it can record full frame analog video effortlessly, it's been used to import old 8mm tapes I have from my childhood (I then transfer them over the network to a computer more suitable for processing).
Does yours have the A/V module? If not, they can be had for dirt cheap on eBay. Then you can impress your friends by wrapping live video around a 3D object and spin it around in real time!
I second this. I love clean looking setups. I wish I had the space as well, but getting the wife to allocate large areas of our condo for my computer geekery has been hard to do.
Yeah i really need something to put the Genelecs on, at the moment I'm using two iPhone boxes
The interface is great, would highly recommend it, just remember if you do get it to get the latest drivers from alesis.com, because the ones included in the box don't work with leopard.
What do think of Torq? would you recommend it?
I love Torq. I spin mostly Dance and Trance as well as some Hip Hop and Rap for parties and the such. Torq works really quite well for me as my main focus in DJing is on-the-fly remixing, etc. Torq does a very good job of keeping the loops and effects tempo synched, which was a main selling point for me over the other DJ software systems available. It is very convenient to be able to be playing a track and, by pushing one button, have a 4 beat ready to go, or a 1/16 beat stutter mixed in with the rest of the track. No fiddling with individual tempos of separate modules. I also like the 5 hot cues available. Once I got used to them, almost every single song had 5 cue points set. The other reason I decided to go with Torq was the Xponent. At the time, it was (IMO) the best midi DJ control surface out there (however, the new Numark one that was announced at Summer Namm looks pretty sic). And it (the Xponent) being designed for Torq, you have a physical way to control almost every parameter. I do wish they added some way to control crossfader curve, but so be it. I would recommend something additional with some buttons and knobs to be able to fully make use of Torq, but the Xponent really is great.
If you are mainly focused on scratching and such, I wouldn't really recommend Torq. I know a little bit about scratching, and that is not really what Torq is optimized for. No problem scratching a track in or a little baby scratching to spice up a track, but I don't think it would work well for serious turn-tableism.
My first post and new set-up
Macbook: 2.2ghz, 2gb ram, 120 gb hard drive w/ uniea u-suit
*Located standing up in shelf
Apple 20" Cinema Display
Apple Pro Wireless Keyboard
Apple Wireless Mighty Mouse
Apple 16gb White 3G iphone
Apple Universal Dock
GE Surround sound speakers (next upgrade) hooked up to Apple Airport Express
HP photosmart printer (under desk) hooked up to Apple Airport Express
Ikea Expedit Desk, chair, and light
Macbook: 2.2ghz, 2gb ram, 120 gb hard drive w/ uniea u-suit
*Located standing up in shelf
Apple 20" Cinema Display
Apple Pro Wireless Keyboard
Apple Wireless Mighty Mouse
Apple 16gb White 3G iphone
Apple Universal Dock
GE Surround sound speakers (next upgrade) hooked up to Apple Airport Express
HP photosmart printer (under desk) hooked up to Apple Airport Express
Ikea Expedit Desk, chair, and light
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Tell us your cable management secret. Or we will slash your tires. With butter knives. Tonight.
Tell us your cable management secret. Or we will slash your tires. With butter knives. Tonight.
Getting an entirely new desk setup tonight to take care of some loose ends in the room. Going to get cable organization up to snuff as well. Here's a shot before the change
What do you use for the lighting behind your ACD? I want to do something similar.
Nice setup.can you post a picture of your entire room? is that a galant desk from ikea or the desk series from OD?
My desk is from IKEA (Galant) .. you can also spot a iPhone 3G in the picture. I will post the wallpaper later and a picture of my entire room
when I moved to my new place. (1st of September) The cable management is not so special .. just a big mess under the desk and a good
angle for the picture!
when I moved to my new place. (1st of September) The cable management is not so special .. just a big mess under the desk and a good
angle for the picture!
Yeah it's got the A/V module. I picked up 3, but ended up dumping 2 of them (the ones in worse condition) when I moved flat, because I couldn't be bothered transporting them!Does yours have the A/V module? If not, they can be had for dirt cheap on eBay. Then you can impress your friends by wrapping live video around a 3D object and spin it around in real time!
Looks like wallpaper to me, see the ripples in the corner where it's been applied badly?
What do you use for the lighting behind your ACD? I want to do something similar.
I can't speak for him, but I have a small brass desk lamp, sitting on the little woofer, behind my iMac.
The metal shade is just visible from my typing position, but sheds no light, so it's not in my eyes.
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