thats super cool i wish i could something like that with my desktop all i do is watch movies and design plain websites
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thats super cool i wish i could something like that with my desktop all i do is watch movies and design plain websites
Not that I find desktops impractical but since I'm always on the go the only thing I use my Mac Mini for is as a server. Maybe when I can justify a mac pro Ill start using a desktop more but until then idk.
Almost a year ago, I migrated from my '09 13" MBP to an '08 Mac Pro. I was previously using my MBP attached to another monitor external keyboard, mouse, and speakers with an elevator stand. Now I have a 3 x 1080p setup I use for web browsing, gaming, content production, streaming, and video capture. Of course, my MBP has been downsized heavily. Just essential programmes for on the go use and a speedy, tiny 64GB SSD. Plenty for the use it gets now, sometimes just a few times a week. I just needed the power of a desktop, and not so much the portability. Though the lines are certainly blurring with these new i7 mobiles. Go Intel!
I did the worse thing a few years back and invested into a system so as to run only games. The system had been made for $500-$600 roughly. A Windows machine. Now I don't game as much and utilize this same system along with my Macbook Pro for using Adobe's Photography suite. I hope to be upgrading to a more powerful computer this fall so I can begin editing video, creating animations, and composing music scores for film and video.
I have a Mac Pro that is about 7 years old. I use it for my photography. I am a retired professional photographer. There is nothing quite like the rendering of a RAW or NEF image on a Mac. My monitor is a Dell with 1000:1 contrast. I have a device for monitoring the color tablet by Pantone. So, my monitor is constantly calibrated to exact Adobe RGB (1998).
I use Disc Warrior to maintain it along with Disc Utility and have had very few problems. It just purrs along.
this is a great group and I am so glad I found this particular Mac forum. I only have a few idiosyncrasies that I needed sorted and they are under control now thanks to the expertise I have gotten here. TCrowe
I use Disc Warrior to maintain it along with Disc Utility and have had very few problems. It just purrs along.
this is a great group and I am so glad I found this particular Mac forum. I only have a few idiosyncrasies that I needed sorted and they are under control now thanks to the expertise I have gotten here. TCrowe
I own a PowerMac G5 desktop, hooked to a 20" aluminum ACD, but i really only have it as a novelty, because I had wanted one of these since they were new, long before I could ever afford one. I have never once done any real work on it. I plan to keep it as is, until my current MBP gets a little long in the tooth, then I will use its case to build a Hack... and then buy a new MBP. I don't care for the way Apple is going now, with NONE of their systems being user serviceable/upgradable, so i want at least ONE that can be)
My primary system, is a mid-2012 cMBP. I got this particular model, factory maxed out, knowing full well the Retina machines were coming. I got this because it was the last of the "user upgradable" systems for HDD space and ram. I use it 99% of the time In clamshell mode (another reason I didn't care to wait for the Retina, who cares about the built in screen, when you're in clamshell mode nearly all of the time?), and use a 27" Acer monitor, and Apple wireless keyboard and Magic mouse (which I hated at first, but got quite use to, can't imagine using another mouse now, though I do also have a Magic Trackpad also)
I like being able to grab it at and go. We live 300 miles from ALL of our family and most friends, so we tend to travel a lot. We also enjoy trips and camping (though I see our newly acquired iPads replacing the MBP in that capacity) I like being able to have all of my data with me on longer trips though. Ive had a few unfortunate events that lead to me temporarily loosing EVERYTHING, all at once, every bit of music, documents, pictures, videos, etc, from my entire life, in one day. Now, I like the portability and simplicity of a laptop being my primary system, and use an Airport TC for backups, as well as several external HDDs for redundant backups (some stored on location, some stored and rotated off location, in various other places, all in fireproof gun safes, All of my stuff is backed up x6 right now. I will never have that same feeling of loss again)
So really, for work (website admin/creator, school (yay, USC prep, and Environmental Science, I start back to college for the first time in 10 years next month, *I am 32 years old, and stopped going to college the same semester I obtained my EMT certification, and was sworn in as a Deputy Sheriff back in my home county), and for play, (forums, craigslist apple buy/resale), my MBP is perfect for me. I don't play games, I don't have a Facebook, I really haven't gotten into photo or video editing, but plan to start teaching myself when I purchase a real camera and GoPro, some time between now, and the time the Fiancée and I become pregnant for the first time. (I have no other children and neither does she)
So, that was my long-winded answer to this poll. My G5 desk top is a very nice, very large, clock and weather display to the right of my primary screen space, and hugely inefficient, and unnecessary foot warming in beautiful SoCal. lol
*Edit, the G5 case on the left, is NOT an actual G5 any longer. It is now an empty shell, that houses my power strip/surge protector from my UPS, cable modem, one of my many external drives, and most of my cable management, which is how Ive managed to keep an Ikea Jerker, with no "hiding places" relatively cable free.
*edit 2, As for the age of everything here, besides my 'purchased well used, but still operational G5 boxes, the MBP is the next oldest. I was 100% windows just weeks after loosing all of my computers/data, and saw as a good opportunity to satisfy my curiosity about OSX, which I had never used before. Ive now gone Apple, and don't see myself going back. Love the OS, (just some of the newer hardware/machines/principals thereof I don't like, thus, the future, uh, "build" of my own system)
My primary system, is a mid-2012 cMBP. I got this particular model, factory maxed out, knowing full well the Retina machines were coming. I got this because it was the last of the "user upgradable" systems for HDD space and ram. I use it 99% of the time In clamshell mode (another reason I didn't care to wait for the Retina, who cares about the built in screen, when you're in clamshell mode nearly all of the time?), and use a 27" Acer monitor, and Apple wireless keyboard and Magic mouse (which I hated at first, but got quite use to, can't imagine using another mouse now, though I do also have a Magic Trackpad also)
I like being able to grab it at and go. We live 300 miles from ALL of our family and most friends, so we tend to travel a lot. We also enjoy trips and camping (though I see our newly acquired iPads replacing the MBP in that capacity) I like being able to have all of my data with me on longer trips though. Ive had a few unfortunate events that lead to me temporarily loosing EVERYTHING, all at once, every bit of music, documents, pictures, videos, etc, from my entire life, in one day. Now, I like the portability and simplicity of a laptop being my primary system, and use an Airport TC for backups, as well as several external HDDs for redundant backups (some stored on location, some stored and rotated off location, in various other places, all in fireproof gun safes, All of my stuff is backed up x6 right now. I will never have that same feeling of loss again)
So really, for work (website admin/creator, school (yay, USC prep, and Environmental Science, I start back to college for the first time in 10 years next month, *I am 32 years old, and stopped going to college the same semester I obtained my EMT certification, and was sworn in as a Deputy Sheriff back in my home county), and for play, (forums, craigslist apple buy/resale), my MBP is perfect for me. I don't play games, I don't have a Facebook, I really haven't gotten into photo or video editing, but plan to start teaching myself when I purchase a real camera and GoPro, some time between now, and the time the Fiancée and I become pregnant for the first time. (I have no other children and neither does she)
So, that was my long-winded answer to this poll. My G5 desk top is a very nice, very large, clock and weather display to the right of my primary screen space, and hugely inefficient, and unnecessary foot warming in beautiful SoCal. lol
*Edit, the G5 case on the left, is NOT an actual G5 any longer. It is now an empty shell, that houses my power strip/surge protector from my UPS, cable modem, one of my many external drives, and most of my cable management, which is how Ive managed to keep an Ikea Jerker, with no "hiding places" relatively cable free.
*edit 2, As for the age of everything here, besides my 'purchased well used, but still operational G5 boxes, the MBP is the next oldest. I was 100% windows just weeks after loosing all of my computers/data, and saw as a good opportunity to satisfy my curiosity about OSX, which I had never used before. Ive now gone Apple, and don't see myself going back. Love the OS, (just some of the newer hardware/machines/principals thereof I don't like, thus, the future, uh, "build" of my own system)
2012 Mac Mini here, use it for my Graphic Design business, Photo editing, browsing the web....etc.
Nothing better than relaxing with a cocktail on a 27" screen.
Nothing better than relaxing with a cocktail on a 27" screen.
i own a 3 month old Dell XPS 8700 for doing school work, and playing games. i also own a ipad mini with Logitech Ultrathin Keyboard Mini for on the go and a iphone 4s
I have a desktop but I use it to set my computer on. Thinking of upgrading to a standing desk.. 
srsly I haven't used a desktop computer in many years. Laptops are too powerful and not expensive enough to make me buy a desktop. I'm not big on syncing, so being able to lug my machine around with me is vital.
srsly I haven't used a desktop computer in many years. Laptops are too powerful and not expensive enough to make me buy a desktop. I'm not big on syncing, so being able to lug my machine around with me is vital.
I use my desktop for gaming primarily. I imagine I'll also be using it a fair amount for university work next year due to the screen real estate (5120x1440, 2x27"), access to visual studio and performance over my trusty 4 year old mbp.
I would post a picture but I've just packed up one of the screens to move down to uni so if I remember I'll post at a later date.
I would post a picture but I've just packed up one of the screens to move down to uni so if I remember I'll post at a later date.
I wish I could use it for work but alas I am a Wintel server administrator working for a customer which high security requirements so I am forced to use a laptop provided by them.
My iMac gets use for general surfing, bill paying and the like.
My iMac gets use for general surfing, bill paying and the like.
Editing on FCPX is it's main use. Though when things are slow and inspiration has dried up, it's an amazing Twitch/Vimeo/YouTube viewer
I know this is an old thread, and I didn't dig it up, but I can't believe nobody called you out. You work on American Dad? Gotta love that job!
I use my PC desktop as a gaming/video conversion machine. I use my Mac Mini is a test platform and tinkering machine.
Mostly moved to a mobile platform with the rMBP and iPad Air.
Mostly moved to a mobile platform with the rMBP and iPad Air.
Hadn't seen this thread in a while. And yes... I've rough-edited roughly 1/3 of every single AD episode, with a team of 2 other editors. (About 196 episodes, 9 seasons since 2004).
I pre-edit the shows using storyboards (creating animated sequences from the drawings), creating the near-final timing and soundtrack from the voice actors performances and added SFX and music. The editing is then done before a single frame of finished animation is started.
The final animation is timed to my output, replacing the stand-in storyboard panels. The process is so effective that heavily sfx-laden action films have adapted the same process. Directors/producers/execs get to see what a show/sequence will look like before a frame of expensive footage has been shot... and during a shoot far less footage is wasted since the edit will be pre-approved.
For example (not mine), a sequence from Iron Man 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiZRuOxiCGw
Anyway, I've posted a few "show your office" posts here of my job at Fox. It is pretty much my dream job. https://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=8967044#post8967044
I'm about to start work on the 10th production season of American Dad.
Thanks for your hard work (and the rest of the AD team)! It is one of my favorite shows. I can't wait for the TBS run to start.
