Yeah. and the old 20" Cinema Display will stay as the sixth monitor (because I also have the TV).
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A Parsons coffee table does look nice.
But I think, wooden kitchen countertop would also fit nice into your living room. 4cm thickness of the wooden plate would be quite a sturdy construction and nice to look at. And you may attach enhancements for cable-routing underneath.
I agree, but doing that is sort of a permanent thing. My wife surrendered this part of the living room with the understanding that when the last kid moves out all the computer stuff goes into her room. If I mount a countertop, it may look nice, but I am eventually going to have to remove it.
As nice as it may look, the wife isn't going to take the look of permanence too well.
PS…for the record, I'd have gone with two (or three) more 30" if I could have found a good deal. Maybe over time.
However, the twin video cards I have can only drive one of those each - so unless I get different and more expensive cards the limit right now is two 30". That's why I got the two additional 23" displays. I have two 20"s right now (hell, the third one is in the garage) so this will be a step up. 1920 vs 1680.
The Parsons coffee table in question…
Not really my idea of nice. I bought the taller legs at Home Depot and cut them down so the table would equal the size of the desk. The original legs are in the garage.
$20 at Walmart, we got it when my daughter was starting to move around (about 3yrs old). We didn't want my uncle's very nice wood coffee table messed up.
Oh, my arrangements are always meant to be versatile ...If I mount a countertop, it may look nice, but I am eventually going to have to remove it.
As nice as it may look, the wife isn't going to take the look of permanence too well.
Just a 1,8m - 2,4m long 4cm strong full-wooden plate resting on either the shelf on one side or a wooden container or just two metal legs from a swedish furniture discounter shop on the other or both sides.
Metal-baskets for cables etc attached beneath ...
Last month I dismantled my own 1,8m desk to build the corner desk for my son's home-office. The corner-desk is built of two identical 1,8m long, 60cm deep and 4cm strong plates, that are simply attached with three 8x16cm metal-plates and screws beneath the plates. Rock-solid and easy to dismantle too.
As a replacement for my "lost" desk I got a cheap full wooden 2,4m long, 60cm deep and 3,5cm strong countertop as a replacement (the discounter didn't offer the, my favourite, 1,8m long version any more) , that sits on the bookshelve on one side and two metal legs on the other side.
I'm pretty happy with the construction. - It's all wood and metal with collected wooden, paper and metal boxes for storage and placing stuff on top.
And it can hold my weight 😔 whenever I have to stand or knee on it to clean the window ...
So everything can be moved and rearranged and using an old kind of furniture as a support might be even nicer ...
So this wouldn't be permanent thing, nor mounting to the wall but ready for any next move ...
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'08 and '09 Macs appear bullet-proof - This Mini3,1 is an overachiever.
I still have to put back all the decorative stuff, but here you go!
I have a black background on the TV so I opened a Finder window to prove it's working.
And…showing the display resolutions…
I have a black background on the TV so I opened a Finder window to prove it's working.
And…showing the display resolutions…
Yeah…the adapters will take awhile. I'm really okay with two 30" and two 23" right now. Later on they'll get upgraded, but for now my head is spinning. I've never had this big a monitor in my life, let alone two. And then I have two of the mid-size ones coming.Two - one via DVI, another via DP (and an adapter).
I'm looking at the footprint on this hodge-podge desk and it's like OMG!
Unless you view them in person you can't really get an idea of the size in pictures.
PS. I discovered something. I can view TWO websites at once now. SMH!!!!!
Yep, that's a huge deal to me too. You need at least a 1920x1200 monitor for that to "work" comfortably.
I'm completely ignoring the point of the post to ask this, but what model of ThinkPad do you have set up on the far right? xD
That's an L420. I was aiming for a T420 so many years ago but I was new to Thinkpads and ended up with that. I got three at the same time, one for me, one for my son and one for my wife. I got an actual T420 later for my daughter.
That model got my wife through her bachelors's degree.
Epic! I love that general era of ThinkPads. I have a T530 and I absolutely love it.
They're really good PCs. I went with it on a suggestion from a member here who is no longer active. They won't win any design awards but they have ports out the wazoo and they're built tough.Epic! I love that general era of ThinkPads. I have a T530 and I absolutely love it.
I do find however, that neither my Thinkpad or my wife's like Windows 10. I had to rollback to Win7 on mine. It kept getting narcolepsy and only a forced restart would wake it up. That's okay because I prefer Win7 anyway.
'cause they have more important priorities to take care of. They're meant to be used, not looked at.
Yeah, I know. They're solid and that was one of the reasons I went with them. My wife needed a PC to get her through school and I wanted one that wouldn't fail.
It's got an industrial look and I happen to like that sense of design. I made the comment though because it's not the typical style the average consumer looks for.
It's too bad design awards don't generally favor the things that are designed to be functional, then ThinkPads would take home all the awards.
That's interesting that you say that about Windows 10. Both my T530 and X61s did pretty much perfectly with Windows 10. Now the former runs Ubuntu Cinnamon and the latter runs Windows 7 and Ubuntu MATE, but during the time they used Windows 10 I can't think of any issues that either encountered. Do you know what it was that caused the sleep/wake issues?
No, never figured it out. I tried, but since I don't use this PC as a primary machine I didn't dig too hard.
Once I restored it to Win 7 though the issue was gone. I don't dislike Windows 10, but on this particular PC it just had issues.
Ah, ok. Interesting. I'd suspect maybe the chipset is at fault here, or whatever manages power. But that's just a blind guess, as I don't have one of these to mess with for myself.
My Late 2008 MacBook is still going strong. I like the fact that it does not require SSD to be very fast(for general consumer use anyway). I also noticed that for some reason using SSD does not help to improve the battery life. So I am very happy using it with 500GB HDD.
I also have an Early 2008 MacBook4,1 which I saved from the bin but it is no match for the Late 2008 one.
I also have an Early 2008 MacBook4,1 which I saved from the bin but it is no match for the Late 2008 one.
I'm really fond of the late-2008 13" MB! - Great you're happy with a spinning drive.
An SSD would improve launching time of system and Apps. - The final bottleneck is the CPU and the book sometimes runs quite hot after HDD-SSD-swapping.
Opening the MB to blow out dust off the single fan is something, you've certainly already done.
Since I transport my early-2008 MBP in my bycicle's pannier-bag I heavily rely on sturdy SSDs to take all the bumps along my way to work (something, the Apple-Logo unfortunately couldn't withstand...)
Edit: I was really astonished when I became aware, that benchmarks of the 2008-Unibody-13"-2,4GHz MB are better than those of the regular early-2008 2,4GHz 15"MBP.
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Faster FSB (1066 vs 800 MHz) and faster RAM (DDR3 vs DDR2) do make a difference
This is, how 'my' early-intel supports Windows: dual-SSD inside - one for Win10Pro, the other for MojavePatch (as optical-drive replacement). *NB: here Win10Pro-SSD didn't boot from the optical-bay position.
I chose the way with two independent drives, since i didn't cope with BootCamp/MBR&GUID on a single drive.
For the early-intels BootCamp3 (located on the SnowLeopard-DVD) seems to be the best way to start with in order to get BootCamp-Support (e.g. for swapping the keyboards Fn-keys response)
I chose the way with two independent drives, since i didn't cope with BootCamp/MBR&GUID on a single drive.
For the early-intels BootCamp3 (located on the SnowLeopard-DVD) seems to be the best way to start with in order to get BootCamp-Support (e.g. for swapping the keyboards Fn-keys response)
