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Jawbone54 · Jul 10, 2007, 02:09 PM

Originally Posted by Glenn Wolsey

Just received my new Mac Pro and 30" Apple Cinema Display today. Currently in the process of manually moving files from my old iMac.

Mac Pro 2 x 2.66Ghz.
3GB RAM.
250GB 7200RPM HDD.
500GB 7200RPM HDD.
30" Apple Cinema Display.

So clean. So beautiful.

trancepriest · Jul 11, 2007, 02:19 PM

Nice lamps Glenn... great to see you with such a nice minimal setup. The 30 incher looks mounted. I may mount some of my 30's on a LCD mount from vfgadgets.com. That way I can use em on a production set without the aid of a desk.... just a production C-Stand.

Glenn Wolsey · Jul 12, 2007, 04:52 AM

Originally Posted by trancepriest

Nice lamps Glenn... great to see you with such a nice minimal setup. The 30 incher looks mounted. I may mount some of my 30's on a LCD mount from vfgadgets.com. That way I can use em on a production set without the aid of a desk.... just a production C-Stand.

Thanks Andrae, I've worked pretty hard to build this workstation - and I'm just getting started. I have a lot of plans to further develop my office, all because of one silly thing, I'm a tech fanatic who really cant stop ;-)

Glenn Wolsey · Jul 12, 2007, 05:03 AM

Originally Posted by all2ofme

Glenn: Nice keyboard - looks lovely and flat. Does it type nicely? I always loved my Al PB's k/b and would be chuffed if I could find something similar for my desktop.

OT: Where're you from in NZ? I'm from Dunners originally.

It types very nicely. I love how it slightly matches the Apple Cinema Display, the touch button controls are also a nice addition.

I'm originally from Auckland, now living in Rotorua.

Originally Posted by Richard Richard

wow glenn , that is stunning !!!

what keyboard is that ?

<a href="http://www.glennwolsey.com/2007/03/14/review-logitech-dinovo-edge-keyboard/">The Logitech diNovo Edge which I reviewed here.</a>

Richard Richard · Jul 12, 2007, 10:50 AM

here's my set up

basically the total opposite of glenn's stylish simple system

spaghetti junction meets a hand grenade

so much for going wirless , eh ?

jomi · Jul 12, 2007, 11:23 AM

My Mac Pro Setup

trancepriest · 11:14 AM

New Mac Pro 8 core with ATI Radeon X1900 and AJA KONA LHe HD capture/output card. More photos here ---> Flickr: Photos from Trancepriest

markb8705 · 06:57 PM

23'' Cinema Display
Dual Quad Core 2.66
3 GB RAM

trancepriest · 08:38 PM

Mac Pro 8 Core (the 24GHz beast)
9GB of RAM
750GB HD
Dual 30 inchers
Panasonic BT-LH1700W broadcast monitor
AJA KONA LHe HD capture/putput card
Panasonic HVX200 camera
Color

Apple Xserve RAID @ 10.5 TB coming soon

Kevin Dunahee · Jul 22, 2007, 01:50 PM

trancepriest, other than needing cable management, you are my hero. What do you do for a living?

Cadaver · Jul 22, 2007, 08:41 PM

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Very nice. I love the clean look. I just wish I could actually keep my workspace like that for more than 10 minutes.

fluidstream · Jul 24, 2007, 08:58 PM

Just moved to a new condo, finally a homeowner! Snapped these today, finally in a bright home office.

Looking in to the Office:

Desk View:

The View from the Desk:

Another Desk View:

Kevin Dunahee · Jul 25, 2007, 10:53 AM

Sorry trancepriest, but fluidstream is my hero now.

Commodus · Jul 28, 2007, 04:21 PM

Originally Posted by fluidstream

Just moved to a new condo, finally a homeowner! Snapped these today, finally in a bright home office.

Looking in to the Office:

I'd seriously love to know what you do for a living. Send a private message, if you have to! And for that matter, what neighborhood do you live in to have such a beautiful view?

Googer-Giger · Jul 29, 2007, 07:58 PM

fluidstream, which one of those boats is yours?

fluidstream · Jul 30, 2007, 02:14 AM

I have a 32ft baja, but it's not moored there, keep it near indian arm which is about a 20-25 minute drive from my place. Commodus, check your pm, and thanks for the compliments everyone.

trancepriest · Aug 3, 2007, 12:13 PM

G5/2.5GB RAM, Mac Pro 8-Core/9GB RAM (2 4GB, 2 512MB), 3TB of internal storage, 3 drive RAID 0 (for uncompressed HD), Panasonic BT-LH1700W HD monitor, AJA KONA LHe HD capture card. Systems run Shake, Color and FCP.

mavherzog · Aug 4, 2007, 05:19 AM

Originally Posted by fluidstream

Commodus, check your pm, and thanks for the compliments everyone.

WHAT? You're not going to share with the rest of us what you do for a living??

Kenneth · Aug 4, 2007, 02:07 PM

Originally Posted by fluidstream

Just moved to a new condo, finally a homeowner! Snapped these today, finally in a bright home office.

Another Desk View:

Any detail on the chair? Thanks.

fluidstream · Aug 5, 2007, 03:35 AM

Originally Posted by mavherzog

WHAT? You're not going to share with the rest of us what you do for a living??

Ha, no sorry, I don't mind telling people over PM's, but I'd prefer not to have my work details all over a public forum.

As for the chair Kenneth, it came from a store here in Vancouver called Inspiration Furniture (it's near Kitts, off 4th ave right around the Granville st bridge), I'm not sure if they're a big chain or not, quite pricey though, I do know they're owned by a bigger company, Scan Designs, you might have them in the states. If you want the details for the store, I can dig them up and PM to ya, just let me know. It's a great chair, awesome support, super comfortable, it's got super quality leather and stands up to some decent abuse.

tylermorgan · Aug 5, 2007, 08:40 AM

Here's mine; just got it yesterday, so I'm still waiting for my additional memory and stuff to come.
For now, it's a 1.8ghz G5/512mb/80gb/Superdrive . It's my first powermac - I've also got a G4 Powerbook.

trancepriest · Aug 7, 2007, 07:53 PM

Trouters · Aug 23, 2007, 12:21 AM

Originally Posted by fluidstream

As for the chair Kenneth, it came from a store here in Vancouver called Inspiration Furniture (it's near Kitts, off 4th ave right around the Granville st bridge), I'm not sure if they're a big chain or not, quite pricey though, I do know they're owned by a bigger company, Scan Designs, you might have them in the states. If you want the details for the store, I can dig them up and PM to ya, just let me know. It's a great chair, awesome support, super comfortable, it's got super quality leather and stands up to some decent abuse.

Ha, I think I actually can actually help out Kenneth with looking for the chair here in the states. The chair looks like a design by Charles and Ray Eames, and if it is then its probably liscensed from Herman Miller by ScanDesigns. Anyway just check out the Herman Miller webpage and you can find chairs very similar to that, and a few variations of them as well. Hope this helps.

richwig83 · Aug 23, 2007, 07:10 AM

Originally Posted by trancepriest

Mac Pro 8 Core (the 24GHz beast)
9GB of RAM
750GB HD
Dual 30 inchers
Panasonic BT-LH1700W broadcast monitor
AJA KONA LHe HD capture/putput card
Panasonic HVX200 camera
Color

Apple Xserve RAID @ 10.5 TB coming soon

24ghz.... you wish!!

Still.. 2 30" screens

Googer-Giger · Aug 26, 2007, 03:40 PM

Keep 'em comin trancepriest

Googer-Giger · 01:02 PM

My friend is a media arts teacher at a local high school, they just got refurbished G5s, he gave me this DA 733 G4 with 512 MB RAM, running tiger and a 15" cinema display with a broken back leg some of you may have heard me bitching about.

I Still have my wonderful G5, Dual 2.0 2.5 GB RAM, 500 Gig HD that I wouldn't trade for anything, well, maybe a Quad...

And of course, not that you guys care, here is a pic of my custom PC in my friend's kick ass basement, (I call the PC "the juice box") with an AMD Athlon 64 X2 2.6 GHz, 2 GB Ram and an Evega GeForce 8800 with 256 MB. And the best monitor I have ever owned, a trinitron 15", I would use it with my G5, with another 21" Trinitron I have, because of the brilliant colors, but I can't fit either of them on that desk.

The guy in the back is my friend, whom I had just finished building a custom box for, sorry about all this PC stuff, but you got to pay the rent somehow guys.

darkfusion · Aug 27, 2007, 08:37 PM

Mac Pro 2x 2.66ghz
2gig ram
500gb hd
Geforce 7300
20' widescreen and 19" lcd dual screen setup.

Matt_A · Aug 28, 2007, 03:11 PM

I was able to aquire a second 20" Cinema Display for an extremely low price, so now I'm running dual monitors. I'm kinda liking it! They're attached to my aging 1.6 G5. You can see my iBook G4 1.33 on the desk also.

cherry su · Aug 28, 2007, 04:12 PM

Originally Posted by fluidstream

Just moved to a new condo, finally a homeowner! Snapped these today, finally in a bright home office.

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I have that same MS keyboard as you!

blakespot · Aug 30, 2007, 02:02 PM

Not the highest res pic, but the latest pic of my Mac Pro can be seen in an updated computer room photo panorama I've just made:

( click here to jump )

Cheers.

blakespot

Cadaver · Aug 30, 2007, 08:52 PM

TI-99/4A, eh? I remember those. Used to annoy my pals at school by sneaking up behind them and yanking the cartridge out while they were playing games (but supposed to be working in class).

edge.it · Aug 31, 2007, 12:23 AM

waiting for the macbook pro to get sent back from repair.

Kenneth · Aug 31, 2007, 01:44 AM

edge.it

Is it safe to put to the subwoofer that close to the Mac Pro?

In my case, the Logitech Z-5500 manual suggests me to kept the 10" subwoofer at least 2 feet away from any electronic device.

edge.it · 02:08 AM

Originally Posted by Kenneth

edge.it

Is it safe to put to the subwoofer that close to the Mac Pro?

In my case, the Logitech Z-5500 manual suggests me to kept the 10" subwoofer at least 2 feet away from any electronic device.

i thought that was sufficient space. well ill know when someone who "really knows" comes and reems me! ahah lets wait and see.

(please reem if necessary my mac pro is impt!

Googer-Giger · Aug 31, 2007, 10:32 AM

Harmon/Kardon is awesome, good choice.

Psychopulse · Sep 1, 2007, 11:36 AM

New 23" display

grinder · Sep 11, 2007, 08:52 AM

Psychopulse, my hero. Moar pikshaz lol kthxbai

MarkLT1 · Sep 11, 2007, 10:34 AM

Originally Posted by edge.it

i thought that was sufficient space. well ill know when someone who "really knows" comes and reems me! ahah lets wait and see.

(please reem if necessary my mac pro is impt!

If you value your data, you'll want to keep it at least 18", if not 24" away from your hard drives.

That sub has a HUGE magnet in it. Big enough that it was able to greatly distort the picture on my CRT TV from about 12". With that kind of magnetic field, close to your MPs hard drives, you are asking for data loss.

Edit-

If you have a small CRT color TV, plug it in and hold it close to the sub. Move it away, until you see no color distortion at all. Add a couple of inches for safety, and you'll have a reasonable distance to keep the sub from your drives.

Fred33 · Sep 12, 2007, 09:05 AM

Very cool pics everyone. I especially like Fluids' office. I got to get me a place in there. I love the view.

xtremelyyellow · Sep 16, 2007, 09:58 PM

Originally Posted by blakespot

I've posted my config on here a few times.

I recently moved up to a Mac Pro and I've just added a 2nd LCD to go along with my 30" Apple Cinema Display. It's a HP LP2065 20" LCD (1600x1200), rotated into portrait mode. (The OS X ATI X1900 XT drivers support rotation).

Note: the HP LP2065 uses an S-IPS panel (like Apple's Cinemas), not a lesser panel as several, similar 4:3 20" LCDs I looked at do (Samsung 204B, Dell 2007FP).

What do you think?

blakespot

Forgive me if this is a stupid question.... But, can this be done with any of the MAC displays?

travisimo · Sep 16, 2007, 11:01 PM

MaximusNL · Sep 17, 2007, 02:21 AM

All these setups look truly beautiful. Currently out of camera. My setup is a 23" Cinema HD display (the g4-style) with a PowerMac G5 1.8. Will post a photo soon.

xtremelyyellow · Sep 25, 2007, 08:54 PM

New setup
Mac Pro 3.0 Quad
30" Display

Old setup
G5 single processor
Dual 17" Displays

darkfusion · Sep 28, 2007, 02:12 PM

That setup is sexy.

UnixMac · Sep 30, 2007, 02:55 PM

just added a new 20" screen.. I don't know how I managed without it before!

New Macs

nikstar101 · Sep 30, 2007, 04:39 PM

Originally Posted by fluidstream

Just moved to a new condo, finally a homeowner! Snapped these today, finally in a bright home office.

The View from the Desk:

WOW!!

That is a nice place, I will to completely rebuild my flat before i take a photo, otherwise it will bring the whole thread down.

Nik

bld44 · 08:05 PM

Mac Pro Quad 2.66ghz
6GB Ram
2x23" ACDs

diotav · Oct 18, 2007, 07:15 AM

xtremelyyellow · Oct 18, 2007, 10:37 AM

Originally Posted by diotav

I was gonna get the wireless keyboard but I do tens to use the number keys

Anyway, Where did you get your @ sign clock?

jasonsRX7 · Oct 19, 2007, 11:10 AM

Is the old wireless keyboard still going to be available? The new one is terrible