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Post your (Real) working environment... (Messy Desk)
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So, I did take a break (doing the DTP work of an art-magazine right now) and I did take a picture of my messy desk:
specs please of your macmini all all that storage attached to it
specs please of your macmini all all that storage attached to it
Here you go:
Mac mini early 2009
CPU 2.0 GHz
RAM 4 GB DDR (2x2) So-dimm 1066 MHz
internal storage: Samsung 250 GB/8 MB/ 5400 rpm SATA
internal DVD-burner: the standard one
OS: MacOS X Leopard 10.5.8, Windows XP Professional SP-3 in Bootcamp and through WMWare Fusion, Ubuntu Linux in VMWare Fusion
External enclosures (from right to left):
1.) WD 250 GB SATA HDD/16 MB/7200 rpm in the silver aluminium case, connected trough USB (used for my NTFS files and in bootcamp)
2.) under the Mac mini, there is a MacPower case with a second WD 250 GB HDD (same specs as above), connected trough Firewire 400, used for TimeMachine backup and for SuperDuper cloning (the drive is splitted into two partitions)
3.) an dual aluminium case with two green WD 500 GB HDDs (SATA, 7200 rpm/32 MB) connected trough FW400 as my general achive, configured as software RAID-1 mirror
4.) under the aluminium HDD case, there is a 5,25" Alu box with a Samsung DVD-RW drive installed, connected trough USB
5.) on the far side there is a D-link 323 NAS enclosuer with two WD 320 GB HDDs installed, connected to my 1-Gbit ethernet network. It is configured as a RAID-1, using mostly for movies, photos etc. (my sisters family is using it mostly for family stuff) but because I have a UPS here, it is connected to it
6.) you see a smaller 2,5" HDD box (Akasa blue Alu) in front of the external DVD-burner. It is connected to a 7-port Equip USB port. It has and old 40" GB PATA HDD installed from an old Windows notebook, but works as it should. This is my main storage that I am taking everywhere with me.
I do however have two USB sticks too - an older 512 MB and a newer 16 GB (you never know, when you need free space).
Everything connected to a 850 VA UPS.
What kind of monitor are you running for your second one? I wont to do that with my MBP when I get a new mac.
nice very nice!! the drives are sort of out-dated though haha time to upgrade them to larger sizes!! i would post my setup (with around the same number of external HDDs as you) but its not really a work station, just my room haha.
Yeah, they are somehow outdated, but they still work. I will not change/replace them until they do, what they should.
Why don't you post your setup, room anyway?
i have already posted here
TADA!
its there.
my specs/rigs
1. MBP CoreDuo (original one) 2.16GHz 15"
2GB RAM
500GB HDD
X1600 Graphics Card
External stuff: 250GB USB + 1TB USB, FW daisy-chain contains 500GB + 500GB + 1TB + LaCie Burner.
Use: University work, anything really.
2. Hackintosh
E4500 2.4GHz @ 3GHz (OC)
19" LCD + 17" CRT
2GB 800MHz RAM
40GB HDD (OSX) + 500GB HDD (XP) - planning to put in a 1TB OSX HDD
8500GT 512MB Graphics Card
Use: managing my glitches-it.com IT website, proxy cache server for home use (works really well!), parallels for flash/PS/xp programs for uni etc/watching movies.
im currently getting my own computer repair business going, just trying to get everything sorted. its a lot of work! especially when your still in uni haha.
Very nice
So you will open a computer-service, if I understand correctly?
thanks!!
yup thats correct, to repair/build computers mainly. it's not what i will be doing as a career but for the mean time i hope for it to bring me in a nice income whilst im still at uni. i am also planning on selling computers on ebay, i have scoped out the competition for my area and i think i can offer some really good deals!
my set up at college. doin homework
2 22" Acer x223w monitors
creative speakers
HP Mini - Hackintosh
under the desk:
1st gen mbp (hooked to the monitors)
few external harddrives
13" mbp
2 22" Acer x223w monitors
creative speakers
HP Mini - Hackintosh
under the desk:
1st gen mbp (hooked to the monitors)
few external harddrives
13" mbp
Could you show us the usb-dvi dongle i could use one of these at work.. Just everyone i've came across were way too expensive
Yes, I would also like to see this thing. How much does it cost? Does it lag? Info, info, info please!
Unless you just want to display static information, like some tables, iTunes, or chats, you don't want to use these things.
Playing videos, even in a very small window is not possible and even moving windows around lags like hell.
As all of them use the same technology, it does not matter which one you buy, all of them are pretty much the same.
They cost about 100 here in Europe, but they are definitely not worth it!
First gen Macbook Pro's came with DVI
mine doesn't lag at all...
I can watch videos, move windows, etc. with no lag
I use the EVGA UV 16+ usb adaptor, it was $70.
http://www.evga.com/products/moreInfo.asp?pn=100-U2-UV16-A1&family=USB
Strange. I tried mine, I can't even remember from which company it was, with 1680x1050 and it wasn't smooth at all.
Maybe the OS X drivers were not well-engineered at that time, I don't know.
Anyway, I would not buy such a thing again.
Forcing a display signal through an USB port is far from ideal.