Post Your Mac Setup: Past & Present!

[pincho]

No, but from what I see a lot, I don't feel the need to spend the majority of my student loan on 4 pcs.

Why does anyone need 4 pcs? The amount of money in the world...it's sick, what a selfish world we live in, pfft.

if they have the money, why not? im sure i would spend it on things i like too. You may not feel the need to buy 4 computers, but others might. And like iVersa said, it's not your problem they have so many computers. BTW they have 4 Macs not PC's.

 

[dornoforpyros]

No, but from what I see a lot, I don't feel the need to spend the majority of my student loan on 4 pcs.

Why does anyone need 4 pcs? The amount of money in the world...it's sick, what a selfish world we live in, pfft.

hell yeah! eat the rich! class war! anarchy in the uk!

honestly you sound like your jealous of other people's money, but seeing as you seem to be living off student loan I guess it's easy to judge those with money. Come back in a few years when your working and let's open your bank book and see where your paycheques are going.

yeah, I agree, no body needs 4 PC's or 2 iPods. But if thats how they choose to spend the money they earn that's their business.

 

[srf4real]

My office.

I tend to get distracted rather easily.

 

[plinkoman]

My office.

I tend to get distracted rather easily.

wow, thats really nice; and that fish tank looks about as big as my bed.

is that a cat hiding behind it?

 

[thebeephaha]

Heres mine, just moved my desk from my entertainment room downstairs to my bedroom.

Sorry for the noisy pics, it was dim in the room and I shoot NIKON.

 

[rogersmj]

Finally got a Mac!!!!

Well guys, I finally did it today: I went and bought an iMac. In the last two weeks, I sold off three old PC workstations and one of my three LCDs (the other two are still up for sale), and so today I drove nearly an hour to the Keystone Apple Store in Indianapolis and purchase (with student discount) a stock 20" Core 2 Duo iMac.

This isn't really cleaned up/set up the way I will have it eventually, but I was excited to get my new toy up and running:



I was very tempted to splurge on 2GB of RAM right away, but with the stratospherically high memory prices I thought I'd see how 1GB would do. It's doing perfectly fine for right now, so I'll probably wait a bit for a good sale on RAM. Also, as soon as I sell that 19" Dell LCD in the picture I'm buying a 2007wfp to match the screen in my iMac.

I am astonished at the brightness and vibrance of the screen. This morning, my Dell 1901fp looked perfectly fine and bright. Next to my new iMac, it looks like a piece of crap.

I'm still getting used to everything. I'm still sort of a klutz with the mouse, since it tracks differently than in Windows. As you can see from the picture, I quickly ditched the Mighty Mouse -- to me, the only thing corded mice are good for is to strangle yourself. I have an MX1000 bluetooth that I easily paired up. I haven't yet been able to get the side buttons to do back/forward in Firefox though. I also hacked the Home/End keys to go to the beginning/end of a line of text -- oh man if those don't work, I would kill something when I program.

I have mounted my 900GB video library from my file server and placed aliases inside my Movies folder so everything shows up in Front Row -- which is very nice. I just need to figure out how to set up automatic (as in, on boot) hard mount points for my SMB shares -- I don't want the volumes floating around on my desktop.

All in all, it's been a fun evening. As a 15-year Windows user, I have a heck of a lot to learn here. MacRumors keeps me going!

 

[seattlemaclover]

Here is my temp setup, just mover back to uni.

 

[grizzlybrice]

Looks Like a Borg docking station. Me likey.

 

[Platform]

Sold my imac and have replaced with a Mini PPC 1.42ghz, 1gb ram, 80gb HD and a BenQ FP93V Monitor.

Very clean

 

[mattcube64]

hell yeah! eat the rich! class war! anarchy in the uk!

honestly you sound like your jealous of other people's money, but seeing as you seem to be living off student loan I guess it's easy to judge those with money. Come back in a few years when your working and let's open your bank book and see where your paycheques are going.

yeah, I agree, no body needs 4 PC's or 2 iPods. But if thats how they choose to spend the money they earn that's their business.

Wow, I never knew that's how you spelled "paychecks" in the UK. That's pretty neat.

And yeah, I don't know why anybody should be putting down someone's really nice setup, when they're the ones browsing a "Post your setup" on a Mac forum.

 

[srf4real]

wow, thats really nice; and that fish tank looks about as big as my bed.

is that a cat hiding behind it?

Yup, that's Hercules stalking the bichir in my tank. Keeps him from biting my feet so much while I'm trying to work!

 

[dornoforpyros]

Wow, I never knew that's how you spelled "paychecks" in the UK. That's pretty neat.

And yeah, I don't know why anybody should be putting down someone's really nice setup, when they're the ones browsing a "Post your setup" on a Mac forum.

Actually I'm just up north in Canada. But being a british colony our spelling is based on the UK spelling. We also spell them: colour, humour, rumour (Occasionally I type in MR's addy wrong), neighbour etc.

I'm sure there's other examples besides the "our" thing, but I that's the most common difference I notice between Canadian/American spelling.

 

[iVersa]

Actually I'm just up north in Canada. But being a british colony our spelling is based on the UK spelling. We also spell them: colour, humour, rumour (Occasionally I type in MR's addy wrong), neighbour etc.

I'm sure there's other examples besides the "our" thing, but I that's the most common difference I notice between Canadian/American spelling.

haha, i occasionally type the MR address wrong too

I dont get that "british colony" thing, I mean the whole of America is only 200 years old and mainly founded by the British, right?

Or is your area only been occupied by british very recently?

On a side note, and i know its completely off-topic. But i find it truly amazing the extent of different accents created over the american states in only 200 years!

 

[GoCubsGo]

No, but from what I see a lot, I don't feel the need to spend the majority of my student loan on 4 pcs.

Why does anyone need 4 pcs? The amount of money in the world...it's sick, what a selfish world we live in, pfft.

The others are right that it is none of your business what is spent and I'm not sure that everyone here is even old enough to worry about student loans so how could they be spending that money on computers?

hell yeah! eat the rich! class war! anarchy in the uk!

Funny stuff.

honestly you sound like your jealous of other people's money, but seeing as you seem to be living off student loan I guess it's easy to judge those with money. Come back in a few years when your working and let's open your bank book and see where your paycheques are going.

yeah, I agree, no body needs 4 PC's or 2 iPods. But if thats how they choose to spend the money they earn that's their business.

First, the word is you're. Second, I'm going to defend student loans here simply because you imply that one who needs student loans could possibly be in a position to be jealous of another with money. I have money, I earn a great living and my parents are in a tax bracket that you couldn't even fathom, and yet, I have student loans. It is in fact a decision I made. The status of said loans is not something I'd mention here, but I can say that I have them and I have never found myself to be jealous of those with what appears to be a nicer "setup" than me. I simply have what I need/want and that basically covers it. Moreover, those with student loans spending all of this money on their machines are only cheating themselves when they will either fall short one semester and go nuts or find out that in 4 years they must pay that back with interest usually.

While I think MonkeyHugger is entirely out of line implying that we're selfish, I think you're out of line implying that he would be jealous because he has student loans. In my opinion I find myself envious of people's education and never envious of people's possessions. That's just me, what they know is what I want, not what they have.

My defense of such loans is simply because those very loans grant people a chance to learn. We live in a world where the cost of education is out of control. People bitch about gas prices, look at the cost of education...it only gets higher as the years go by. By the time my would-be children see college they'll probably need loans too. It's not what I want for them, but the alternative is to try to go through life without a degree and that is career suicide in my opinion. I'd rather have one computer, one monitor, and two degrees than 2 monitors, 2 computers and no degree.

 

[mckvakk]

My trusty old iBook. Not quite as fancy a set-up as most of you guys have, sadly.

Cool glass
Are you norwegian? Or just a wannabe?

 

[bembol]

Re-arranged my Set Up!

Not sure what this was about? LOL

 

[ph0rce]

My very temp. iLife...

the speakers are amazing if you are looking for speakers, these are the ones...

 

[dornoforpyros]

The others are right that it is none of your business what is spent and I'm not sure that everyone here is even old enough to worry about student loans so how could they be spending that money on computers?

Funny stuff.


First, the word is you're. Second, I'm going to defend student loans here simply because you imply that one who needs student loans could possibly be in a position to be jealous of another with money. I have money, I earn a great living and my parents are in a tax bracket that you couldn't even fathom, and yet, I have student loans. It is in fact a decision I made. The status of said loans is not something I'd mention here, but I can say that I have them and I have never found myself to be jealous of those with what appears to be a nicer "setup" than me. I simply have what I need/want and that basically covers it. Moreover, those with student loans spending all of this money on their machines are only cheating themselves when they will either fall short one semester and go nuts or find out that in 4 years they must pay that back with interest usually.

While I think MonkeyHugger is entirely out of line implying that we're selfish, I think you're out of line implying that he would be jealous because he has student loans. In my opinion I find myself envious of people's education and never envious of people's possessions. That's just me, what they know is what I want, not what they have.

My defense of such loans is simply because those very loans grant people a chance to learn. We live in a world where the cost of education is out of control. People bitch about gas prices, look at the cost of education...it only gets higher as the years go by. By the time my would-be children see college they'll probably need loans too. It's not what I want for them, but the alternative is to try to go through life without a degree and that is career suicide in my opinion. I'd rather have one computer, one monitor, and two degrees than 2 monitors, 2 computers and no degree.

I'm not bashing student loans at all, but MonkeyHugger was the one who brought them up, and he seemed quite bitter about them and how some people are using them.

My only point is that it is very easy to judge those with money when your living on less than you'd like. But attacking how other people choose to spend their money (be it from a job or a loan) is out of line. Some people choose to buy nice computers, others choose to give it all to charity, but unless your in the later it's really just a case of the pot calling the kettle black.

 

[®îçhå®?]

I've just upgraded, (i say tht but it isn't really). Well i had a PM G4 800MHz before hand but that is trowing a fit and i cant really be assed to fix it when my MB is due to come soon so i just got a 14inch iBook 1GHz. My dad got given it by a customer as he has just upgraded his. It is a bit beaten up but i can survive with it for a couple of weeks maximum whilst i wait for mine to come. Will post pics later.

 

[dornoforpyros]

haha, i occasionally type the MR address wrong too

I dont get that "british colony" thing, I mean the whole of America is only 200 years old and mainly founded by the British, right?

Or is your area only been occupied by british very recently?

On a side note, and i know its completely off-topic. But i find it truly amazing the extent of different accents created over the american states in only 200 years!

Well yes & no, Canada is only about 140 years old I think (too lazy to look up the actual number). We are our own sovereign country and such, and the british monarch has no "real" power, just symbolic powers now. IE the Governor General (the queens representative here) has to sign off on all laws and such. And our money has the queen on it and our official government vows and such are "to her majesty".

Basically Canada never rejected the british monarch in the way the USA did, although I personally think it's time we did.

 

[zRedbullz]

I'll be a monkey's uncle!!

Never would I have thought I'd see some extraordinary set-ups. Especially the fellow with every possible gadget known to our existence (two pages back)

OK, I do not need to illustrate you a picture of mine. Imagine this.

A traditional looking desk.

With a 17'' PB, accompanied with a gold pen and a notebook.

AND

Er, that's it.

 

[zRedbullz]

Had a good look through some of the pages. I have to say, some take their desktops or office workstations rather, a little too seriously. But nonetheless impressive.

BTW, if anyone can answer. Why is it that, judging by most of the pictures here, one has a laptop as well as a iMac, for example? Is one for mobility and the other for home?

 

[w_parietti22]

Had a good look through some of the pages. I have to say, some take their desktops or office workstations rather, a little too seriously. But nonetheless impressive.

BTW, if anyone can answer. Why is it that, judging by most of the pictures here, one has a laptop as well as a iMac, for example? Is one for mobility and the other for home?

Typically, desktops are more powerful then laptops (iMac/ Mac Pro vs. MacBook). If you need lots of power and portability, even the current 2.16ghz MacBook Pro might not be enough power for some of the things that people do on there computers. Therefore, a small laptop is nice to have for on the go and an iMac/Mac Pro is great for home/work when you are actually going to be working on a major project and you need the extra screen space and power.

 

[mattcube64]

Yeah, right now I have a 2Ghz Macbook w/ 1.25GB of RAM. It is perfectly fine for the things I do now; web browsing, email, itunes, some small games, and light photoshop and indesign work. Once I graduate from highschool (in the spring), I'll probably get myself an iMac (or *maybe*/*hopefully* a MacPro) as a more powerful desktop solution to get me through college. I plan on majoring in journalism and getting a minor in graphic design or possibly 3D animation (depending on where I attend).

 

[iVersa]

Well yes & know, Canada is only about 140 years old I think (too lazy to look up the actual number). We are our own sovereign country and such, and the british monarch has no "real" power, just symbolic powers now. IE the Governor General (the queens representative here) has to sign off on all laws and such. And our money has the queen on it and our official government vows and such are "to her majesty".

Basically Canada never rejected the british monarch in the way the USA did, although I personally think it's time we did.

Thanks for info, I actually alread knew this. I just wondered if your area in canada was a particularly new settlement. But I guess not