Post Your Mac Setup: Past & Present (Part 14)

[babul]

Here i'll show you my mac setup and my bedroom studio setup

Nothin much, iPad on the left. JBL iPod Dock, Crappy speakers

This tower connected to the TV, so i can make beats on the big screen

17" Samsung Monitor, Macbook Pro 17" (First Model), Macbook Pro 13" Unibody, iTouch 1st Gen and 2nd Gen plugged on the right.

Another Towers with Dual 17" Samsung

My Main Workstation, 27" iMac. iPhone 3GS plugged on the right

And I just got this 15" Macbook Pro Unibody

I love to work in low ambient light. So here is how it looks

 

[AlphaDogg]

I forgot to post my setup while I was on an airplane from DIA to LAX (Denver Int'l Airport to Los Angeles International Airport). I didn't get a chance to take a pic of my setup in the cabin that I was staying at. My setup in the cabin was basically: I plugged my MB into my Belkin surge protector/dual USB adapter.
It looks like this:

I had my iPhone plugged into it, and my friends who were staying in the cabin would switch off who used the other port to charge their iPods. A couple of my friends used the AC outlets on the surge protector to charge their cell phones.
I would leave my MB plugged in during the day, alternating between two batteries (one battery one day, the other battery the next day). The only chance that I got to use my MB was at night, after we did all of our activities (hiking, bowling, night hiking, going out to eat on Pico Blvd, etc...), so I would just grab the MB from the charger, bring it to my bed, and watch a movie or TV show on iTunes. I would leave it by my bed when I was finished with it, and plug it in in the morning. I had my iPhone jailbroken (still is) with MyWi, expecting to be streaming video, skyping, etc... But the ATT coverage map lied to me. Stupid hills in Simi Valley.
But it was a very nice break from the internet.

Pic of my airplane setup (I was watching one of the Back to the Future movies):

I hadn't used the MB for so long. I missed using my MBP's spacious trackpad . I brought the MB because I didn't want the MBP to get broken.

Btw, it was a class trip at my Jewish school (hence the going out to dinner on Pico Blvd). The kosher food in LA is AMAZING!!

 

[0186279]

What are those headphones?

 

[milbournosphere]

I do believe I saw him holding his sign...

 

[nporteschaikin]

 

[Daveismoney]

lmao

 

[benjayman2]

You beat me to it lol.

I'd post pics of our new room but my camera is so 1999

 

[lifeinhd]

left to right:
20" Apple Cinema Display, 1st Gen.

I don't think that's a first-gen, mate. The first gens were acrylic:

<Cool story>
Pic of my airplane setup (I was watching one of the Back to the Future movies):

LOVE those movies. I had the complete set on VHS, plus a fourth "behind-the-scenes" tape, but I lost the first one

Btw, it was a class trip at my Jewish school (hence the going out to dinner on Pico Blvd). The kosher food in LA is AMAZING!!

As good as NY?

I have the same, uh, fan

 

[MovieCutter]

Still under construction:

1x40 Samsung LED TV
1x24" LED ACD
1x27" LED ACD
1x30" ACD
3.2Ghz OctoCore Mac Pro
Quad i7 2.3Ghz MBP 17" Antiglare
1xpain in the ass yellow labrador...

 

[Transporteur]

1xpain in the ass yellow labrador...

Awesome!

Great setup by the way. Looks great. Some more high res pictures would be nice, though.

 

[jsm4182]

I don't think that's a first-gen, mate. The first gens were acrylic:

The acrylic ones are the Apple Studio Displays. They've been the Cinema display since they moved to aluminum.

 

[mvkVirtual]

The acrylic ones are the Apple Studio Displays. They've been the Cinema display since they moved to aluminum.

Wrong. The earlier widescreen acrylic models are also called Cinema Displays @Lifeinhd is correct, the display shown in the previous post cannot be a first gen cinema display.

 

[NYY FaN]

27" iMac
17" MacBook Pro
iPad 16GB
iPhone 4 16GB
Logitech Z-2300
Time Capsule 1TB

 

[chrismacguy]

Wrong. The earlier widescreen acrylic models are also called Cinema Displays @Lifeinhd is correct, the display shown in the previous post cannot be a first gen cinema display.

The rule is actually very simple as far as the LCD ones go:
LCD <20" = Studio Display (15" and 17")
Any LCD 20" or larger = Cinema Display (Watch the G4 Sawtooth intro on youtube, and you see the very first 22" DVI-D (Pre ADC) Cinema Display which was a BTO option on the 450 and 500Mhz PowerMac G4s in 1999. That was the first gen. The Aluminium ones are about the 4th I believe (22" DVI-D, 22" ADC, 20 and 23" ADC/Acryllic, then the 20" Aluminium ones).

 

[Veg]

What stand is that (under the iMac)? What lamp is that? What external HDD is that and what interface does it use? What speakers are those? What iPod/iPhone stand is that?

My friend and I actually built the stand our selves, it serves to provide room for me to slide the keyboard under and just to elevate the imac in general, so it's more at eye level.

 

[Veg]

Lamp: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000BCDGMG

External HDD: http://www.macally.com/EN/Product/ipod4show.asp?ArticleID=209

Speakers: http://www.amazon.com/Logitech-Z-3-...?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1298679238&sr=1-12

iPhone stand: http://www.xtand.net/xtand.html

Ha man you really did your research, how'd you find the lamp though?

 

[Veg]

What are those headphones?

Sennheiser HD 280 Pros.

 

[Veg]

Lamp: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000BCDGMG

External HDD: http://www.macally.com/EN/Product/ipod4show.asp?ArticleID=209

Speakers: http://www.amazon.com/Logitech-Z-3-...?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1298679238&sr=1-12

iPhone stand: http://www.xtand.net/xtand.html

Oh yeah and actually that's not the stand, I got the stand from monoprice.

http://www.monoprice.com/products/p...=10833&cs_id=1083113&p_id=6862&seq=1&format=2


Monoprice makes great products and sells them cheaply, I recommend them.

 

[vincenz]

Ha man you really did your research, how'd you find the lamp though?

Thanks, just a bit of sleuthing (googling) on the internet

Just looked up "robot lamp" and luckily it came up.

 

[Blakeco123]

what you see
ipad
mac mini w/ 10.7 AND 10.6
windows 7 on hp pavillion (the occasional windows app)
wired keybord
apple pro keybord
magic trackpad (lost my magic mouse)
mighty mouse
wd 2 tb mybook
wd 1 tb (don't know the name)
old harman/kardon speakers
lg flatron w2240t 22 inch
hp vs19 19inch
in the pc cabinet i installed two computer fans to keep it cool as the temperatures would rise to 140+ within minutes of turning it on. now rests at 105
sorry for the crappy phone pics
and lastly all my cords

 

[lifeinhd]

My friend and I actually built the stand our selves, it serves to provide room for me to slide the keyboard under and just to elevate the imac in general, so it's more at eye level.

What's it made out of? And I presume there's a third leg holding the back of the iMac foot up? Otherwise I'd be rather concerned about it falling out of balance during an intense typing session

Lamp: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000BCDGMG

External HDD: http://www.macally.com/EN/Product/ipod4show.asp?ArticleID=209

Speakers: http://www.amazon.com/Logitech-Z-3-...?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1298679238&sr=1-12

iPhone stand: http://www.xtand.net/xtand.html

You know what this forum needs? The ability to tag items in photos, sort of like how you tag people in FaceBook.

And I hate FaceBook.

 

[JoeG4]

I finally got a new chair. My 7 year old awesome chair sits up in my bedroom making an awesome tv chair now.

Since the theme lately is "Show how your desk REALLY looks!" this one has a pile of papers on the desk and some random chair assembly stuff laying around as my mother bought a chair too! lol.

 

[jsm4182]

The rule is actually very simple as far as the LCD ones go:
LCD <20" = Studio Display (15" and 17")
Any LCD 20" or larger = Cinema Display (Watch the G4 Sawtooth intro on youtube, and you see the very first 22" DVI-D (Pre ADC) Cinema Display which was a BTO option on the 450 and 500Mhz PowerMac G4s in 1999. That was the first gen. The Aluminium ones are about the 4th I believe (22" DVI-D, 22" ADC, 20 and 23" ADC/Acryllic, then the 20" Aluminium ones).

I thought all the plastic ones were called studio displays, didn't realize the bigger ones were called cinema. My mistake.

I used to use them in College, the video lab had MDD PowerMac G4s, each with a 22 and 17.

 

[JoeG4]

You can always tell the 22" because they have the power LCD below the bezel instead of on it. Three buttons too! Power, and brightness up/down. Even stranger, the buttons are mechanical clear pieces of plastic (and the power light is this big pill-shaped thing that hangs inside the power button).

It was such a neat design! And then there was the translucent black frame (The backlight sorta bleeds through em too, also cool). The DVI 22" had a GREEN (amber pulsing while sleeping) power light and had a UFO-shaped breakout box at the end of its cable for the USB/power/DVI. Very cool.

The sucky part about the 22" LCD was that it had a really high defect rate. However, it was introduced at a time when 15" LCDs were a luxury item, so it was more like the Ferrari of LCDs of its time.

I recall paying the same price for mine as the Mac Pro currently costs. Sheesh! Stupid me. I should've put that money into Apple stock! If I had put the $7k I blew on my Dual 800/22" into Apple shares I could afford a Ferrari right now

Being 14 and stupid FTW?

 

[hollerz]

I recall paying the same price for mine as the Mac Pro currently costs. Sheesh! Stupid me. I should've put that money into Apple stock! If I had put the $7k I blew on my Dual 800/22" into Apple shares I could afford a Ferrari right now

Being 14 and stupid FTW?

Haha! Hindsight is a wonderful thing. I hate to think how much I've needlessly spent on Apple over the years. Thankfully I think I'm (more or less) past that phase!