My Setup
written by Stuart on June 6th, 2006
Since I spend most of my waking hours sat at this very desk, I guess taking five minutes to describe what it consists of wouldn’t be too bad an idea. Firstly, here's a photo, I’ll describe each element in turn after the break.
It should be fairly obvious to say, first of all that I’m a mac user, I have a G5 iMac, the first one, without the integrated iSight, with a gigabyte of ram, and 150GB of HD space. It is a wonderful machine, the screen is excellent, and I despise having to use anything without the widescreen ratio now. I've had it for about 18 months now, and have yet to find a reason to complain about it.
Sat to the right of that is a Buffalo linkstation 160GB Network attached Hard Drive, I use this to store video, music and backups from my main machine. Luckily thus far my mac hasn't let me down, but I shudder to think what the consequences would have been had I lost all of my Data before I starting doing regular backups.
That in turn is connected to a Netgear wireless router (hidden behind the iMac), which provides the internet connection to my mac, and my trusty iBook, which you can also see on the left of the image. The iBook is my ‘on the road’ machine, and is the standard 12 inch G4, with a little extra RAM. Since I don’t really store anything on it, the 40GB hard drive is sufficient.
Now, the most important thing on that desk, the speakers. Music is key to a suitable working environment, and whilst the JBL creatures are hardly Bang and Olufsen quality, they make good noise, look pretty, and get very loud on request.
Sat to the left of my iMac, you’ll see my iPod. 40GB 4th gen, and next to that, my digital camera. It’s a little casio Exilim EX-S100 which I picked up in Japan last September. I don’t take many photos, but this little thing is great for my needs, and small enough to slip into my pocket, plus it uses SD cards, which I have a few of lying around.
Further to the right you’ll see an HP 1215 PSC, which is shared via my iMac to my iBook, very handy. I could have set it up through the linkstation as a proper print server, but printer sharing in OS X is sufficient for my needs. The HP itself is ok, the scanner is a bit loud, and I don’t really like HP printers as a rule, but it was cheap, and means I don’t have to bother my flatmate any more for urgent printing jobs.
In front of the window is a Wacom bluetooth tablet, I use it very sparingly, and it seems to have developed a battery problem, in that it holds no charge.
Other than that, and my Yucca plant which is just out of shot, that's pretty much it, my desk is usually a lot messier, but gets to the stage where I have to clean it to find the keyboard every now and then, and it's a good idea at these times to photograph it for posterity.
If you too feel like sharing your setup, be sure to pop back here and dump a link in the comments.
Ill do this tomorrow
Nice setup tho!
Never seen your room looking so tidy, im impressed!!!
Nice setup mate, not too disimiliar to mine actually (the compulsary desktop mac and apple notebook
, external hard-disk for keeping all the DC’s safe). The only thing I can’t live without (which you haven’t already mentioned) is my A3 printer, I find this a must when designing for print.