It depends whether you use the palm grip (resting your whole hand on the mouse) or claw grip (moving the mouse with just your fingers) when using your mice. You are very biased towards the palm grip. Other than reliability, the Mighty Mouse is very comfortable if, like me, you prefer the claw grip.
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It depends whether you use the palm grip (resting your whole hand on the mouse) or claw grip (moving the mouse with just your fingers) when using your mice. You are very biased towards the palm grip. Other than reliability, the Mighty Mouse is very comfortable if, like me, you prefer the claw grip.
I have a G4 Mac Mini on my desk as well, it is nothing compared to the Eee (1000H). The Eee runs OS X perfectly - web browsing, graphics work, everything.
The only problem is that there are no sound drivers for it yet... but hopefully there will be at some point!
I'm pretty sure he took more than 3 pics, and he moved the keyboard about, see how it is blurry?
It does appear to be 3 pics stitched together, but i believe that is a split keyboard such as the kinesis freestyle.
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Alright guys, I have been waiting for a while to do this, so here is my stuff!
I just moved and got a new desk (to me anyway). Below is all the stuff on the desk.
15" MBP 2.2 SR 4GB RAM 320 HD
22" Acer LCD
Apple Keyboard w/ Logitech Laser Mouse
Altec Lansing speakers
HP 5180 Photosmart
HP s7410nr Slimline (Media Server for HT setup)
Seagate 320GB Firewire 3.5 External for Time-Machine
Hitachi 160GB USB Portable Drive for random crap
So thats it, my little piece of computing heaven!
Alright guys, I have been waiting for a while to do this, so here is my stuff!
I just moved and got a new desk (to me anyway). Below is all the stuff on the desk.
15" MBP 2.2 SR 4GB RAM 320 HD
22" Acer LCD
Apple Keyboard w/ Logitech Laser Mouse
Altec Lansing speakers
HP 5180 Photosmart
HP s7410nr Slimline (Media Server for HT setup)
Seagate 320GB Firewire 3.5 External for Time-Machine
Hitachi 160GB USB Portable Drive for random crap
So thats it, my little piece of computing heaven!
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Is that a Logitech MX610 (I think that's what it's called) laser mouse? How does it work for you? I had one a couple of months ago, and the pointer would just randomly jump to another position on the screen. Probably there was some sort of interference. Sold mine and bought a wired mouse, I'm looking to get a new wireless one though, as this wired one is making me go nuts. Cable + mouse = no fun. In my opinion.
The only time I had interference is when I had my wireless router next to the computer. I love it, although it says it is only a Windows mouse, there is a utility to get just about all of the buttons to work with OSX.
I use the Elgato EyeTV Hybrid to get tv on the mac.
And yes thats the HP w2408h, pretty good monitor for the price considering its full HD resolution
The keyboard didn't move--it's just lazy stitching. 🙂
As was stated, the keyboard is the Kinesis Freestyle. I have 3 of them, two of them are the new Mac version with a custom cable between the halves. They are expensive, but they are fantastic for relieving "hunched shoulders". I initially wasn't a huge fan of the key switches--they are good but not awesome.
However, the relaxed posture more than makes up for it.
Page #18 of this thread shows a more "top down" view of the same model keyboard on my iMac.
First of all this is in NO way bashing your need for your beastly setup:
What kind of work are you doing where you'd really get a productivity boost from 6 monitors, and an imac, and 2 laptops(?), and a 24", if your coding assembly, I'll of shutted up already 😛
Love the setup it's very nice lighting and great tech. Keep the pics coming 🙂
I really should check back here more often. 😀
I don't mind glossy displays but overall I prefer matte, ESPECIALLY for laptops.
Unless it's sunny, I don't really notice it much, other then the iMac being brighter and more vibrant (due to the glossyness).
Indeed - they're the lyrics to the Stereophonics track "Dakota", and the wallpaper was done by a friend: http://pandasaur.co.uk/dump/dakota.jpg
See above. 😛
I just changed my whole setup. Went from a wood desk, to a glass one. 😀 Looks amazing.
It's double the desk space, so It's perfect! 😀
It's double the desk space, so It's perfect! 😀
New setup. Kinda..
Macbook
22" Acer Monitor
Griffin Elevator
WD MyBook Essentials 500GB
Apple Keyboard
Logitech MXnano
mac mini or mac pro and another acer monitor coming soon i hope.
Macbook
22" Acer Monitor
Griffin Elevator
WD MyBook Essentials 500GB
Apple Keyboard
Logitech MXnano
mac mini or mac pro and another acer monitor coming soon i hope.
Yeah, I just moved it. That was before I cluttered it up with all my crap. 😉 Hoping for a second monitor soon, and probably going to move my PS2 over, so it'll work with my EyeTV instead of the TV across the room. 🙂
The main thing that I do is write distributed software systems, and I typically work at several layers of the software at once. This means multiple debuggers going concurrently and watching things crash across the system. Being able to see the crashes propagate in real time rather than digging through traces after the fact is hugely useful. On the 6 monitor system, I usually have 3 monitors w/ code (30" + 2x20"), 3 monitors w/ consoles/logs scrolling (the other 3). I could benefit from more displays, but it just gets impractical--the 95" of width of the 6 monitors pushes the limit of my neck. I have tried stacking displays before, but it's just too overwhelming.
The other thing I have discovered over the last 5 years of running massively multi-monitor systems is that nothing out there is really designed for it. The Mac UI sucks for huge displays, and Windows is no better. My Dock is often wider than 2560 pixels and Apple doesn't expand the dock onto the screens next to it. Mousing to the single screen menubar (or taskbar on Windows) sucks. At the end of the day, Apple handles it better, so I keep going on the Mac. X11 on Linux is just too crazy with portrait displays--RandR is often not implemented or is missing hwaccel, especially on ATI cards. Matrox cards used to be the best bet, but last time I was looking, there were no 64 bit drivers and I'm talking pre-DVI cards, much less dual-link DVI.
Anyway, back to Mac talk: The iMac + 24 is a secondary system for documents and other management tasks, or small coding tasks (i.e., very simple scripts or small tools). 6 monitors when you are doing a task that requires only 1 or 2 can be very overwhelming too. I was too cheap to buy another MacPro, but the 4 GB of memory in the iMac just sucks.
Just one MacBook Pro though. 🙂
Thanks for the comments; sorry for all the verbosity in my reply.
First of all, thank you for not taking my previous post as bitchiness. 🙂
Second of all, I did not -v. 😛
Now, I understand... you definitely need your setup. I like to have 2 error logs being tailed, 2 access logs being tailed, a terminal running, a 800x1600 coding window, and usually a firefox/safari/ie window running (ie for testing... 🙄 ), and then theres reference books, that is why I've recently been thinking about buying a few reference books, a bit less screen space gone, and much less overwhelming layout... well it is paper.
Theres just so many tasks you have to do all the time, like I could name others, such as documentation parsers running, then managing all your code, managing an svn/cvs repository, the list just keeps running. I've been thinking about a MBP for portability, and also thinking about a third 30".. but now I'm thinking a 24" imac and a 24" monitor might actually be better... I don't know...
Hows your experience with sharing the two systems ie using one of each then doing another task and forgetting to go to the other computer because of laziness to reset your dev environment etc.
Out of curiosity, what languages do you primarily code?
And are you able to disclose what you code for?
Again -- sorry for the verbosity.
EDIT: On a side note, I have been looking for a desk to accommodate my needs for quite a while, pretty much exactly what you have. Any tips on finding one? $275 for that looks like a bargain.
Us mac people, obsessed on positioning of our monitors, it may look better, but you know it, and I know it, putting them together will make your eyes feel better.
The lengths some people go, lookup a guy called "Glenn Wolsey" on flickr, check out where he put a 17" monitor in relation to a 30"... he put it in a lamp 😱
Seriously, don't quote images. It's a pain for everyone who has to download them again and scroll through them again.
Too much money... Oh, and the PS logo is now fixed 🙄.
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American DJ PC-100A
American DJ PC-100A
Behringer DEQ1024
Behringer Ultraflex Pro
Behringer Eurorack Pro
Behringer Ultra-DI Pro
Behringer Ultrapatch Pro
my superb peripheral vision allows me to have a setup like this, or, I don't have the space on the main desk where the imac sits for the external monitor.
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