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Post Your Mac Setup: Past & Present!
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Thanks for the comments.
I'm a graphic designer/website designer/photographer (although only been doing photography for a couple of years)
Its a 30" display and its fantastic, so much better than my old 21" CRTs, although I do miss the extra width I had with the two 21" screens, I'm hoping to add a second display to the set-up at some point.
The box on top is an eSATA box with 1.5TBs in it as backup to the 2TBs in the machine
its super fast! I decided to go eSATA when I got the Mac Pro rather than tons of firewire/usb Hds and it was the right decision.
I was/am tempted to pt the tower on the floor just because the 24" imac 5 feet to the left of this set-up does look very nice without the tower the 30" screen would look nicer But its such a great looking piece of kit that I couldn't face hiding it away!! lol (not yet anyway )
I'm a graphic designer/website designer/photographer (although only been doing photography for a couple of years)
Its a 30" display and its fantastic, so much better than my old 21" CRTs, although I do miss the extra width I had with the two 21" screens, I'm hoping to add a second display to the set-up at some point.
The box on top is an eSATA box with 1.5TBs in it as backup to the 2TBs in the machine
its super fast! I decided to go eSATA when I got the Mac Pro rather than tons of firewire/usb Hds and it was the right decision.I was/am tempted to pt the tower on the floor just because the 24" imac 5 feet to the left of this set-up does look very nice without the tower the 30" screen would look nicer
But its such a great looking piece of kit that I couldn't face hiding it away!! lol (not yet anyway )
been ages since I posted in this tread..
so: this is my setup..
pretty basic stuff so not that much to say about it actually..
so: this is my setup..
pretty basic stuff so not that much to say about it actually..
been ages since I posted in this tread..
so: this is my setup..
pretty basic stuff so not that much to say about it actually..
Lots of dvds. And is that a rear speaker to a 5.1 system. I like it.
I have to change that 5.1, at the moment it's the central speaker.. but it got all mixe dup when i decided to change the desk to another place in the room :S
and yes.. I'm a movie fanatic.. just 3 more and I've crossed the magic number of 250
and yes.. I'm a movie fanatic.. just 3 more and I've crossed the magic number of 250
that little program in the lower left corner.. the one thgat looks like a mini version of the current itunes song, how's it called?
2x 3Ghz Dual-Core Intel Xeon
4GB RAM
4x 500GB HDs
ATI Radeon X1900 XT
30" Apple Cinema HD Display
Logitech MX Laser mouse
2nd Machine:
24" Imac 2.16GHz Core 2 Duo
1 GB RAM (should be upgrading soon)
And 5 other external HDs
4GB RAM
4x 500GB HDs
ATI Radeon X1900 XT
30" Apple Cinema HD Display
Logitech MX Laser mouse
2nd Machine:
24" Imac 2.16GHz Core 2 Duo
1 GB RAM (should be upgrading soon)
And 5 other external HDs
Thanks for the comments.
I'm a graphic designer/website designer/photographer (although only been doing photography for a couple of years)
Its a 30" display and its fantastic, so much better than my old 21" CRTs, although I do miss the extra width I had with the two 21" screens, I'm hoping to add a second display to the set-up at some point.
The box on top is an eSATA box with 1.5TBs in it as backup to the 2TBs in the machine
I was/am tempted to pt the tower on the floor just because the 24" imac 5 feet to the left of this set-up does look very nice without the tower the 30" screen would look nicer
Woah that exactly what i want to do you work for a company of self employed? and i wouldnt be complaing at 30" of ACD haha.
Where's the monitor that's plugged into the powerbook?
It almost looks like you might be using that iMac as an external monitor, but as far as I know that isn't even possible.
and yet is is
it's an old, broken down imac g3 blue..
i opened it up, removed the entire content and replaced the old tft screen with a spare 15" LCD flatpanel screen.
Behind it is my 300GB external hardrive
I call it an imaccessory.. an exntenral display for my powerbook, with place for an isight and an extra HD.
it's an old, broken down imac g3 blue..
i opened it up, removed the entire content and replaced the old tft screen with a spare 15" LCD flatpanel screen.
Behind it is my 300GB external hardrive
I call it an imaccessory.. an exntenral display for my powerbook, with place for an isight and an extra HD.
and yet is is
That's awesome... maybe I shouldn't have threw out that old iMac when the CRT broke.
Very, *VERY* nice setup! Looks great!
I'd love to see some pics of the 24" iMac, and the whole setup all in one pic.
The itunes program is called synergy. Its great because not only does it show the current track with album artwork and rating but it also has other features and submits data to lastfm.
me on lastfm
I work for myself have done for 9 years this year
And yes it was expensive the main Mac Pro only worked out about £900 more expensive than the PC I would have bought, but I thought what the hall plus I actually got the equipment on a Lease deal from Apple so I'll get the chance to upgrade the equipment as well
Here are a few extra shots:
More on my flickr account: me on flickr
me on lastfm
I work for myself have done for 9 years this year
And yes it was expensive the main Mac Pro only worked out about £900 more expensive than the PC I would have bought, but I thought what the hall
plus I actually got the equipment on a Lease deal from Apple so I'll get the chance to upgrade the equipment as well Here are a few extra shots:
More on my flickr account: me on flickr
Awesome setup. I really like the atmosphere of the whole room.
But is that Mac Pro right in the edge of the desk? All it takes is a tap....
I just love the PowerMate. It is a shame they didn't do a bluetooth version. Habe you tried connecting it to the USB port on your monitor, maybe make it look even neater, if that is possible!
Mainly it is a volume control (but it glows blue!). But it also can do a load of other things. You can use it to switch applications etc...
It can be found here
Thanks for the comments I spent a while getting it looking good and hiding the cables.
The tower is about 3 inches from the edge, it was heavy enough to get on the desk it would take a fair whack to get it off (but that's what insurance is for! lol)
I'm probably going to have to use a usb keyboard at some point as the bluetooth one can be a tad slow at times then i could try the powermate out of the keyboard, but the monitor would also work
The powermate can do different things for different programs and work as a next/back in browsers of a key combination is PS, mainly it just looks cool though!! lol
The tower is about 3 inches from the edge, it was heavy enough to get on the desk it would take a fair whack to get it off (but that's what insurance is for! lol)
I'm probably going to have to use a usb keyboard at some point as the bluetooth one can be a tad slow at times then i could try the powermate out of the keyboard, but the monitor would also work
The powermate can do different things for different programs and work as a next/back in browsers of a key combination is PS, mainly it just looks cool though!! lol
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