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zyhlo

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May 6, 2008
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I have the following mac setup but there are too many wires floating around:

20" Apple Cinema Display, Intel Mac Mini, Altec Lansing THX Speakers, Lacie 250 Gig External Harddrive, Belkin ADSL Router, New Wireless Keyboard & Wired Mighty Mouse.

Can anyone recommend a neat or wireless setup.

Please post your pictures of your wireless setup or your neat setup.

Thanks.
 

yoyo5280

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Feb 24, 2007
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Melbourne, Australia & Bay Area
Get a new wireless router and put it somewhere else in the house. Connect your harddrive to it if possible (airport extreme).

Keep speakers, Monitor, mac, keyboard.
Buy wireless mighty mouse.

Or buy iMac.
 

fivepoint

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Sep 28, 2007
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This is a challenge for everyone. Personally, I'm doing two things to remedy the problem:

1) Building a desk which includes a hidden rear drawer to hold all of my iPods, hard drives, other peripherals. This means that all of the cords leave my iMac, go into a grommet on the top side of the desk, and all you see leaving the desk from that point is a single power cord which runs the drawer's surge protector.

2) Creating a wireless network with an Airport Express which lets me print from any computer in the house and send music from iTunes to any speaker in the house.

Because of these two things, I plan on majorly cutting down on cord clutter. It should turn out pretty sweet in the end.
 

pagansoul

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Aug 10, 2006
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My wires are a pain. I tend to just not look down. :rolleyes: Every once in awhile I move things around to dust but I don't have the energy to set everything up all over again in better order. And you can't see half of the stuff. I don't have a picture of what's behind my MacPro.
 

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tr0jan

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Apr 22, 2008
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first of all you have to know, i HATE wires!

i just made a hole into my desk and put a plate under the desk:
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so only my iMac is on the desk.. the other stuff is under the desk and nobody sees it..
 
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