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PowerMacG4 and soon to add a 06 PowerBook tomorrow.
In the last few months, I've moved and changed out a couple of my main machines. Here's how it all looks now:
On the desk we have my 2010 Mac Pro Hex, hooked up to the twin 20" Cinema Displays. Under the rightmost one is my 2012 Mini server. To the left of the ACDs is an older iHome radio/iPod speaker that serves up music to me off my old 80GB iPod while I work. Off to the right of my desk is my Power Mac G5/2.0DP, which is used via screen sharing to one of the ACDs. All of the machines are on a gigabit LAN, so full-quality screen sharing works like a champ. Underneath the desk his my beige G3/233, my trusty old OS 9 machine. Normally on my desk but being stolen by my fiancé when I took this is my 11" 2011 Air. Up on the shelf is my 12" PowerBook G4, still used for school duties in my classroom. It's resting on top of my small shelf collection, a PowerBook 540c and older ThinkPad.
Not pictured but still used is the 15" iMac G4/800 in my kitchen that I use as a music and recipe machine.
On the desk we have my 2010 Mac Pro Hex, hooked up to the twin 20" Cinema Displays. Under the rightmost one is my 2012 Mini server. To the left of the ACDs is an older iHome radio/iPod speaker that serves up music to me off my old 80GB iPod while I work. Off to the right of my desk is my Power Mac G5/2.0DP, which is used via screen sharing to one of the ACDs. All of the machines are on a gigabit LAN, so full-quality screen sharing works like a champ. Underneath the desk his my beige G3/233, my trusty old OS 9 machine. Normally on my desk but being stolen by my fiancé when I took this is my 11" 2011 Air. Up on the shelf is my 12" PowerBook G4, still used for school duties in my classroom. It's resting on top of my small shelf collection, a PowerBook 540c and older ThinkPad.
Not pictured but still used is the 15" iMac G4/800 in my kitchen that I use as a music and recipe machine.
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I've shared my collection in this thread previously, but I have made a lot of changes as of late.
Here's an album with notes on each of the machines: http://imgur.com/a/K9NsB
Here's an album with notes on each of the machines: http://imgur.com/a/K9NsB
Aperture on the Pro, and the Brotherhood of Steel for the G5. Because if the BoS (a bunch of people in the Fallout universe that are obsessed with old technology) were around today, goodness knows that they'd be using PowerPC machines.I spy an Aperture logo
Aperture Science, We do what we must because we can...
PowerBook arrived. Some scratches on the screen but in otherwise good shape. Even came with a genuine Leopard disk. That's a nice bonus.
Here's my PowerPC corner. It's a nice secondary setup for my iMac G3 and G4 MDD.
Mind sharing the wallpaper on the MDD? I like itHere's my PowerPC corner. It's a nice secondary setup for my iMac G3 and G4 MDD.
Here ya go! http://i.imgur.com/JSJOP4V.jpgMind sharing the wallpaper on the MDD? I like it
My "nest"
In the pics - Quad + 23" Cinema, MDD, 17" Powerbook, some PCs, guitar, bass, 4 track recorder, controller/synth, Casio 610 and a whole bunch of shortwave radios....
In the pics - Quad + 23" Cinema, MDD, 17" Powerbook, some PCs, guitar, bass, 4 track recorder, controller/synth, Casio 610 and a whole bunch of shortwave radios....
Finally got around to taking some pictures
Left desk :
2012 Macbook Pro Retina , 2.6 Ghz core i7 which since 2 months replaced my Mac Mini.
Primary workhose and currently my road warrior.
But off course this is the PPC forum
Powerbook G4 12" , 1.5 Ghz, 1.25GB RAM , 64 GB PATA SSD, Newertech Battery .
Dual boot FreeBSD 10.3 + OS X 10.5.8
My 2nd roadwarrior on my daily train commutes ,once it can run the Debian VM I need, it will replace the
Macbook Pro Retina and become my primary road warrior .
Running TFF, QEMU running Debian Jessie i386 VM
Right desk :
Powerbook G4 15", 1.67Ghz , DLSD/HR , 2GB RAM , 75 GB HD , Newertech battery.
Booted here from a FW800 CF reader with a Sandisk Extreme 128 GB CF 120MB/s card.
got very lucky on finding it in perfect shape for 100 EUR , only the casing around the DVI connector is a bit bent.
Apple Cinema Display 20" DVI.
Dual boot Ubuntu Mate 16.04 BETA 1 + OS X 10.5.8
LCD Side : Running Cruz ( old but very fast "insecure" browser which I use to quickly go to sites I trust )
Cinema Display Side : Running VPC7 with a Windows 7 SuperLite VM running Firefox 46
Runs extremely slow but it's more of a POC thing to annoy my non-Mac colleagues at work
Not pictured : all the Cisco network gear on the righthand side of the Cinema Display
Left desk :
2012 Macbook Pro Retina , 2.6 Ghz core i7 which since 2 months replaced my Mac Mini.
Primary workhose and currently my road warrior.
But off course this is the PPC forum
Powerbook G4 12" , 1.5 Ghz, 1.25GB RAM , 64 GB PATA SSD, Newertech Battery .
Dual boot FreeBSD 10.3 + OS X 10.5.8
My 2nd roadwarrior on my daily train commutes ,once it can run the Debian VM I need, it will replace the
Macbook Pro Retina and become my primary road warrior .
Running TFF, QEMU running Debian Jessie i386 VM
Right desk :
Powerbook G4 15", 1.67Ghz , DLSD/HR , 2GB RAM , 75 GB HD , Newertech battery.
Booted here from a FW800 CF reader with a Sandisk Extreme 128 GB CF 120MB/s card.
got very lucky on finding it in perfect shape for 100 EUR , only the casing around the DVI connector is a bit bent.
Apple Cinema Display 20" DVI.
Dual boot Ubuntu Mate 16.04 BETA 1 + OS X 10.5.8
LCD Side : Running Cruz ( old but very fast "insecure" browser which I use to quickly go to sites I trust )
Cinema Display Side : Running VPC7 with a Windows 7 SuperLite VM running Firefox 46
Runs extremely slow but it's more of a POC thing to annoy my non-Mac colleagues at work
Not pictured : all the Cisco network gear on the righthand side of the Cinema Display
New setup moved some stuff around and added the new G5 purchase.
Left to right we have G5 2.3 DP with 2 monitors, MDD with 1 monitor, iMac G5, Quicksilver with 1 monitor, 30" cinema display with Windows 10 desktop (i7 with 32GB RAM, 2 x Geforce 980ti), Sawtooth with 1 monitor.
This setup is used for web design, system administration, programming etc.
While they may not be all connected to the same machine, you have more monitors on your desk than @eyoungren!
New setup moved some stuff around and added the new G5 purchase.
Left to right we have G5 2.3 DP with 2 monitors, MDD with 1 monitor, iMac G5, Quicksilver with 1 monitor, 30" cinema display with Windows 10 desktop (i7 with 32GB RAM, 2 x Geforce 980ti), Sawtooth with 1 monitor.
This setup is used for web design, system administration, programming etc.
Six more in the closet lol. I do have the keyboard and mouse shared across them all using synergy.
Recently redid my setup:
Main desk
Main desk with 3 different Macs (G5, Cube, 2011 MBP)
Side desk featuring my 512ke, MDD, Apple LaserWriter Select 360, Power Macintosh G3, G4 Cube, crappy Dell monitor for MDD, LLOYD'S Stereo 8-Track cassette deck, and Sony A/V Receiver
G5 Specs
G4 Cube Specs
Lastly, MBP Specs
Main desk
Main desk with 3 different Macs (G5, Cube, 2011 MBP)
Side desk featuring my 512ke, MDD, Apple LaserWriter Select 360, Power Macintosh G3, G4 Cube, crappy Dell monitor for MDD, LLOYD'S Stereo 8-Track cassette deck, and Sony A/V Receiver
G5 Specs
G4 Cube Specs
Lastly, MBP Specs
I wanted to see how a 1997ish pro desk looked like, minus the HP LCD monitor
2001 Quicksilver dual 1ghz G4 powermac, 1.5GB PC133 - It began as a trash pick turned basic OSX file server. It's turned into a hobby build, working towards daily user, GB'08 music production etc.
The 08 unibody macbook is Intel so it does't count
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Recently redid the area here where I work. I am the only person in the department now so the entire back corner of the building I can do as I wish with.
Always wanted the 'servers' seperate from the main station so got that worked around. Brought in an old CISCO FastHub 100 that I bought for $12 at Goodwill some time in 2004 or so.
I know the pics show a MacPro and a couple of PCs but I have PowerPC Macs in there so I am justifying it!
Always wanted the 'servers' seperate from the main station so got that worked around. Brought in an old CISCO FastHub 100 that I bought for $12 at Goodwill some time in 2004 or so.
I know the pics show a MacPro and a couple of PCs but I have PowerPC Macs in there so I am justifying it!
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2002 Quicksilver dual 1ghz G4 powermac, 1.5GB PC133 - It began as a trash pick turned basic OSX file server. It's turned into a hobby build, working towards daily user, GB'08 music production etc.
The 08 unibody macbook is Intel so it does't count
That a 23" ? Damn cool.
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Nice. I always wanted to do this.. hence preserving a white crt to achive it, sadly missed to get the towerI wanted to see how a 1997ish pro desk looked like, minus the HP LCD monitor
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Only if there was such space back at home !
I was standing back in the far corners of the area to get wider pics.
It's not a small area, but it isn't that big either. And since the newsroom and the "kitchen" area are right behind where I sit it's not rectangular either (there's a trangle sliced out of it.). But It's big enough.
It used to be MUCH smaller in the sense that there was not a lot of room. We had giant slanting racks set up that held our newpaper pages. Once we stopped doing our own printing we didn't need those anymore and so I got all that space back.
Nice space Eyoungren. Redhat, Yep - it sure is. I found it on CL for $40 last year. It came with the clunky ADC to DVI converter too so I thought it was quite a deal I've been using it ever since. Great monitor - love the color. If I could find a 2nd locally, I'd pick it up but the ones on ebay are stupid expensive (or maybe I'm just cheap) because of shipping. Anyhow, below is my current computer/mancave set up.
BTW - Cool 8-track, Gamer!
I've been using it ever since. Great monitor - love the color. If I could find a 2nd locally, I'd pick it up but the ones on ebay are stupid expensive (or maybe I'm just cheap) because of shipping. Anyhow, below is my current computer/mancave set up.BTW - Cool 8-track, Gamer!
Nice. I always wanted to do this.. hence preserving a white crt to achive it, sadly missed to get the tower
I have its original 15" CRT, not shown because space issues
