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Microsoft Ergonomic keyboard on the right hand side desktop! 
My main room looks like that but multiplied by six splitters connected to several outlets and I've not experienced any problems.
Cable management may be in order, then again perhaps this is a Freeman wild-style statement in unto itself.
@micahgartman what exactly were you doing with all those macs on the ground?
I spy a fav of mine - a rain design M stand.
@micahgartman what exactly were you doing with all those macs on the ground?
I spy a fav of mine - a rain design M stand.
Yeah…in the beginning I tried. Sigh.
Things get a little more complicated when you have a MacPro with six displays, a PC and a Mini that both connect to the same TV the MP does, a server, a G4 filesharing, a work Mac, a NAS, a switch and two KVMs and your own MBP. All the Macs with dual ethernet connectors are running two cables, then there's the peripherals. I only have one of the Cinema Displays hooked up to Firewire and USB. There's simply no way short of a hub I could connect all that and I'm not buying another powered hub just to connect all that, let alone a FW hub. I hardly use the USB ports I have now except to power devices.
Then we have the computer speakers, the TV soundbar, the cable box, the printer, two routers, a modem, a 24-port switch and a femotocell.
So, yeah, four occupied plugs on the wall with four power strips and a fifth powerstrip that goes to a plug in the kitchen.
One day I will pay for professional cable management, but I'm pretty sure I'm going to be a big job for whomever it is. Right now, it's all behind the desks.
I am loosely familiar with your set up. I always wondered what was on the other side & now I know hahYeah…in the beginning I tried. Sigh.
Things get a little more complicated when you have a MacPro with six displays, a PC and a Mini that both connect to the same TV the MP does, a server, a G4 filesharing, a work Mac, a NAS, a switch and two KVMs and your own MBP. All the Macs with dual ethernet connectors are running two cables, then there's the peripherals. I only have one of the Cinema Displays hooked up to Firewire and USB. There's simply no way short of a hub I could connect all that and I'm not buying another powered hub just to connect all that, let alone a FW hub. I hardly use the USB ports I have now except to power devices.
Then we have the computer speakers, the TV soundbar, the cable box, the printer, two routers, a modem, a 24-port switch and a femotocell.
So, yeah, four occupied plugs on the wall with four power strips and a fifth powerstrip that goes to a plug in the kitchen.
One day I will pay for professional cable management, but I'm pretty sure I'm going to be a big job for whomever it is. Right now, it's all behind the desks.
Trying to figure out what CM would look like for that beast - I think I'd have better things to do with my weekends too. Do you ever flip breakers with all that on the circuit?
No. My dad was an electrical engineer for the aerospace industry (and I did not want to burn the house down) so I don't overload my powerstrips. I just add another one to another plug, LOL!I am loosely familiar with your set up. I always wondered what was on the other side & now I know hah
One of the plugs is connected to TWO lightswitches though. I figured that out after shutting off half my stuff when flipping one of those switches. So, we bought these little plastic tabs that you screw in with the electrical plates that prevent the switches from being turned off.
I HAVE blown the fuse though because of the portable A/C. That combined with all the computers was enough. The A/C alone draws around 1800W.
So I had to find a thick enough extension cable to handle both the amperage and the wattage for the A/C and run that into a plug in the kitchen.
I'm transferring data from the 2013 27-inch iMac to the 2017 27-inch iMac.
Data from the 15-inch MacBook Pro is being transferred to the Late 2013 MacBook Pro.
The 12-inch PowerBook G3 is waiting for a FireWire card so I can back up all my Newton packages. The Wallstreet is still running the original HDD!
The Titanium PowerBook (on the M Stand) is the head to my first-gen Mac Pro server which is underneath that table.
The desk on the left is mine. I run a 2015 15-inch MacBook Pro. The desk on the right is my wife's. She has my ol'20-inch Cinema Display (the only thing I ever purchased using my Apple employee discount) attached to a 2014 MacBook Pro.
Not in the photo is a first-gen iPad Pro that I found in a drawer at a client's office. It's disabled for 27 days (?!?!).
TL;DR This is my weekend project
Maybe do it a little at a time? Start with the simple things and slowly work your way through it.Yeah…in the beginning I tried. Sigh.
Things get a little more complicated when you have a MacPro with six displays, a PC and a Mini that both connect to the same TV the MP does, a server, a G4 filesharing, a work Mac, a NAS, a switch and two KVMs and your own MBP. All the Macs with dual ethernet connectors are running two cables, then there's the peripherals. I only have one of the Cinema Displays hooked up to Firewire and USB. There's simply no way short of a hub I could connect all that and I'm not buying another powered hub just to connect all that, let alone a FW hub. I hardly use the USB ports I have now except to power devices.
Then we have the computer speakers, the TV soundbar, the cable box, the printer, two routers, a modem, a 24-port switch and a femotocell.
So, yeah, four occupied plugs on the wall with four power strips and a fifth powerstrip that goes to a plug in the kitchen.
One day I will pay for professional cable management, but I'm pretty sure I'm going to be a big job for whomever it is. Right now, it's all behind the desks.
Good idea. I've tried that in the past, but there's always something getting in the way.
Part of my problem (and specific to just me) is that I don't like redoing things. Waaaayyyy back when, we had no kids and from our second home on we've always rented 3-4 bedroom homes (we own our current home). That gave my wife a room and me a room and we shared the bedroom. So everything in 'my' room was set up 'permanently' in the way I wanted it.
Then kids came in 2003 and 2008 and all of a sudden we had no space of our own. My son will leave the house first in the next few years and the deal is my wife gets his room. She gets her space back first since she gave it up first. Once my daughter leaves (she just started ninth grade) I get her room.
So, in my head this space I have everything in is only 'temporary'. It's going to have to be all torn down when that space finally comes back to me. That's not realistic of course, I mean it's been 19 years so far, but that's how it is in my head.
We love our kids, but are so looking forward to getting the life back that we had before they came along.
I’m too cheap for that. I use a thin strip of masking tape to keep the room switch on.
Wow, quite a lot happening here!I'm transferring data from the 2013 27-inch iMac to the 2017 27-inch iMac.
Data from the 15-inch MacBook Pro is being transferred to the Late 2013 MacBook Pro.
The 12-inch PowerBook G3 is waiting for a FireWire card so I can back up all my Newton packages. The Wallstreet is still running the original HDD!
The Titanium PowerBook (on the M Stand) is the head to my first-gen Mac Pro server which is underneath that table.
The desk on the left is mine. I run a 2015 15-inch MacBook Pro. The desk on the right is my wife's. She has my ol'20-inch Cinema Display (the only thing I ever purchased using my Apple employee discount) attached to a 2014 MacBook Pro.
Not in the photo is a first-gen iPad Pro that I found in a drawer at a client's office. It's disabled for 27 days (?!?!).
TL;DR This is my weekend project
If you aren't able to get the iPad back to its owner (or it was given to you, or something like that, and are ok with it being erased), you can put it into restore mode by holding the Home button and lock button until it shows the icon to plug it into the computer, then you can restore it. If it's not iCloud locked, you can set it up as a new device again.
It took a while to get it into recovery mode but it's now good as new. Thanks for the tip!
As many others pointed, it's pretty safe. My setup it's more loaded for over a year using daily for 9hs/day and no problems.
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Thanks, brother. I kinda sorta meant it in a humorous way—apologies for the dry sense of humor
No problem, this forum has a very unique sense of humor anywaysThanks, brother. I kinda sorta meant it in a humorous way—apologies for the dry sense of humor
It's a good question though. Whether it's safe depends on the current draw. Unless it's been measured one cannot say it is or not.Thanks, brother. I kinda sorta meant it in a humorous way—apologies for the dry sense of humor