*** Show Off Your Apple Hardware ***

PooBrain said:
Must be luck, the macs at college always crashed. As for the rest of what you said..you couldn't make me puke harder if you tried.
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Lol.. Trust me, I myself have to support 300 Macs in a college by myself and its not from the lack of trying. Without going into a massive rant, it be a lot different if I had my way in setting them up.

50% of the errors are caused by users.. One girl moan that the mac was running slow, I told her to close down a few 100 of those photos that she's got open that was taken on a 16 megapixel camera!

The other 50% is caused by the people who comes up with the ideas, pay the costs don't understand them and force stupid ideas of how they should be ran upon them trying to make them work more like windows.

Yes education is the key...
 
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Here's my setup. Admittedly not normally like this, the MBP is normally elsewhere.

I have loved using my old 24" iMac but in retrospect it's not actually been the smoothest of rides owning it. It's an old 2008 model, picked up cheap after the Apple iMac refresh where everyone thought they'd go Quad Core but they didn't. It's had 2 new power supplies after misdiagnosis at the genius bar and then finally a new Logic Board that actually fixed it. Then the HDD died (thank god I got the extended warranty). Now it's got a pretty bad problem with screen burn and it has the infamous geforce 8800 GS so I'm just kinda waiting for it to die on me. I would get an iMac again in a heartbeat.

Things not so visible in the pic:

My second screen is precariously using an old Mac Mini case as a stand until I find a stand that isn't ugly. My Dad's old mini had a Logic Board problem that was too costly to fix. There's a dismantled 12" Powerbook in the cupboard next to the desk with another bad Logic Board (I swear I'm not the Jonah of Macs). Under the desk is an old PowerMac G4 (Gigabit Ethernet) that's still going strong and in the other room I have an ancient just-about-functioning Performa 630 which will hit its 20th birthday next year (comes with a whopping 8MB of Ram and a 500 MB HDD with a 33 MHz Motorola CPU)

Also a PC under the desk too.
 
Meh, it's more the AIO thing than anything else. That said, it's pretty cool that you can only see one wire in my entire setup (the mouse). No power cables or anything in view at all!

Rather looking forward to adding my new MBA to this thread next week...:D
 
Pictures to follow, but our setup now is:

2013 Macbook Air i7, 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD - Portable Computing
2011 Mac Mini, 2.7GHz i7, 16GB RAM, Radeon GFX, 240GB Samsung 840 EVO SSD, 2TB Western Digital Green HDD, External Samsung BluRay - Lounge HTPC
AC WiFi 3TB Time Capsule - WiFi Router and Backup
Apple TV 3 - Bedroom streaming device
iPhone 4S 32GB - My Phone
iPad 2 32GB WiFi & iPod Touch 3rd Gen 32GB - Both to be replaced when new iPad Mini comes out

In other words... a whole lotta Mac :)
 
Conanius said:
Pictures to follow, but our setup now is:

2013 Macbook Air i7, 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD - Portable Computing
2011 Mac Mini, 2.7GHz i7, 16GB RAM, Radeon GFX, 240GB Samsung 840 EVO SSD, 2TB Western Digital Green HDD, External Samsung BluRay - Lounge HTPC
AC WiFi 3TB Time Capsule - WiFi Router and Backup
Apple TV 3 - Bedroom streaming device
iPhone 4S 32GB - My Phone
iPad 2 32GB WiFi & iPod Touch 3rd Gen 32GB - Both to be replaced when new iPad Mini comes out

In other words... a whole lotta Mac :)
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/drool :D
 
mrbell1984 said:
Apple products look so much aesthetically pleasing on desks and so much bloody tidy than PCS! I hate wires!
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Silly thing to say really
You don't have to have many wires from a PC if you don't want?
If you have an all in one PC and elect to have a wireless keyboard and mouse then you'll have few wires?
If you put a little effort in then you can have a split monitor setup with very few wires
Reason many setup you see on here in other threads have wires if because most are enthusiasts or gamers so wouldn't choose to have any wireless peripherals

Now I'm certainly not saying that Apple products don't look nice! It's just not something which is exclusively Apple
 
MonsterMoshi said:
Now I'm certainly not saying that Apple products don't look nice! It's just not something which is exclusively Apple
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It's just the average joe finds it much easier to make it look good using Apple stuff, rather than doing a better job with other stuff. Some equally good looking stuff can be found elsewhere, but does it work as well? ;)
 
Might as well post, even though it isn't anything that people haven't seen before. New MBA 13" (spec in sig).

Nexus 4 doesn't have the greatest camera in existence...
 
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Been a decade now and that design still looks completely fresh! I remember when the Power Mac G5 first came out...it was breathtaking in person, unlike any desktop I'd seen before.
 
It really is a good system, and chassis is spot on. A pity intel never got USB3 on their x58, x79, and Xeon platforms.

I need to pick up a USB 3 PCIe card soon, as transferring large amounts of data takes over 6 hours.
 
Cosmic182 said:
Is the magic trackpad worth the £59? I love the magic mouse but its achey after a while having to move your wrist so much.
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I had the same thing with mice (the Magic Mouse however I find is simply unusable). Slightly achey wrists. Have had the Magic Trackpad for a couple of years and it completely alleviates the issue for me. I'd say it is worth it, but for accurate work you'll still want a mouse. General browsing etc, absolutely worth it.

If you own a Mac notebook you'll find that using an external mouse is pointless. Trackpad is far better in these circumstances.
 
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