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Perhaps in the past there have been topics about what peoples desktops look like and I look through these on other forums and they bore the crud out of me. Frankly I don't care what your icons look like or what your background is, what I want to know is what your work station looks like, if you only work on a laptop post a picture of your lap and the area where you usually work. As for desktop users I want to see the kind of environment you work in, very clean, mirror finish wood/metal desk, monitor has no finger marks, chair is stiff, or very relaxed, papers around you, desk has a few layers of dust on it, your monitor is covered in smudges.
Just post a picture of your workstation.

To start this off I will post a pic of mine.
My desktop
Pretty messy, crumpled up pieces of paper around, dust, monitor smudges, very comfortable reclining chair, also as for the time this pic was taken this is very clean for me, normally cereal bowls and cups would be scattered around my desk.

Please do not use this as a place to post the stats of your computer, of your monitor is fine, but not your comp, please.

But other than that, just remember to please link your images, rather than img tagging them, thank you.

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Here's mine That was a while back. Still have that configuration, although not nearly as clean as in that pic.

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My desk I seem a little scatterbrained for a girl who's locker wins the award for most sanitary in our high school. Have to have my green tea and supply of junk food/candy. You could see some pop rocks at the bottom right corner. Haha. And the uber old dry-erase board at the back that my cousin's use to outrank each other. It's a little messy but it's intimate and comfy. Nice place to work.

Glad I've never been to your house, Morgan.

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As of right now:

Yes, I have a jubilee of pens. You never know when you gonna run into that scary guy at work.

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Yay for portableness :) "My Desk" is normally my lap, or my bed but only my bed if I'm on Skype. (by the way, the other set of legs in the picture are those of Adam Richards )

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My setup.

PowerBook G4 15" 1.67ghz (playing TDS)
iPod 20gig 3rd Gen
Mighty Mouse
Bose Headphones
Crappy School PC Laptop
No Adam's Legs

Can anyone spot anything else of note?

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Here are a few picures of my dektop and PC, and of some of the Misc computers/parts that I have laying around.
http://img385.imageshack.us/img385/6615/pict00061cp.jpg

http://img385.imageshack.us/img385/3015/pict00096du.jpg
http://img406.imageshack.us/img406/7875/pict00102le.jpg
http://img406.imageshack.us/img406/4404/pict00114hu.jpg


http://img406.imageshack.us/img406/1340/pict00129pb.jpg

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Here's mine... at least while I'm home for the summer. In Kingston (where I go to school) I've got significantly more desk space.

The desktop:
IBM PIII 866 Mhz (with an 80 GB hard drive, 512 mb of RAM and two monitors) -- it runs SUSE Linux

The laptop:
Apple iBook G4 12" 1.2 GHz (with a 30 GB hard drive, 512 MB of RAM)
-- it runs OS X

The miscellaneous:

Spindle of DVDs
Fax machine (it's mom's, when I'm away she uses this room as an office)
HP Printer
Speakers
KVM switch hooked up to one of the two monitors (so I can plugin a laptop or another computer and switch displays easily)
External DVD burner
Laptop bag
Monkey (haven't you always wanted a monkey?)
Queen's Computing jacket :-)


As for Joe Matt: the FIRST sticker is nice. Is that what you meant?

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Is it my imagination, or is the Enterprise on a collision course for Earth?

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Here's my (relatively) clutter-free workspace: http://repository.patfair.net/desktop.jpg

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Heres mine from multiple views...
Main view
Top
Bottom
Floor
Behind Laptop screen
As you can see it is QUITE messy but i know where everything is so it balances out

Things of interest...
Inspiron 6k...Paper Weight aka. External HD...Zen Microphoto...Creative Travel Sound Speakers...HAAS Mouse pad...Car collection...Linux Book...pocket knife...water bottle...cd case...IBM thinkpad 760el...old empty shoe box...dust off...school bags...cell phone...keys...Ferrari bag from Italy...useless bluetooth headset(i dont have a bluetooth phone but it was $9.99 so i couldnt resist)...Car a day calender...summer reading book...sunglasses...soon to be 9v usb charger...name tag for work...random legos...uncomfortable chair...thats all i can see thats interesting.

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My messy desktop:


From Left: IBM Thinkpad, mousepad, 2 OLD (I did capitalize bold did I not, you wouldn't want them trust me) laptops. Background: wood wall paneling, magazines, notes, magic cards (hidden behind thinkpad). All of this on what is described as a card playing table made into a desk. I love it.

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Here's mine.

It usually looks like this...but sometimes it gets a little messier with papers and food.

(I know the desktop looks empty...but once you press start almost both screens get filled up.)

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A very similar thing used to happen to me, so one day I spend about an hour organizing every program into categories, and sub categories, even some had groups within sub categories. It is very clean now, wish I could say the same about my room. As for my desktop I have no shortcuts, I just feel they get in the way.
Thank you everyone so far for posting your desktop pics!

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Heh, my desktop (computer) has 0 icons and the start bar auto-hides on the left. I love the start configuration, instead of the bar getting too full of programs to see whats what, I can open, by my calculations, about 34 windows, and still take in what they all are at a glance. The auto-hide is to increase my viewable area, and I like a clean looking desktop screen.

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yes i have 3 monitors on 1 computer

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The Monty Madness thing?

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What's so special about 'Cheap Seats' that you have a sticky note about it?

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So do I...

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sweet the first peson i know other than me that has 3 monitors
/forest

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question 1 and 1a. Is your lamp neatly zip tied to a clamp?
and if that is yes, what it is clamped to?

question 2. do you have any chemistry sets? :]

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its zipped tied to the base of my othe light which is on top of my comp tower
i need to get more cable cuffs to organize the cords lol
/forest

sory no chemistry but i have bins full of electronics

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Show off! And Dave, you do know what they say a neat desk is a sign of, don't you?

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And what is chiefdelphi.com stretched across 3 monitors a sign of? :p

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level 1: aesthetics, notice draperies, black frames - it is artwork
level 2: big trouble (edit: 3 times that many clues)

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Here's mine. Our office is also our storage room, and there wasn't room for two desks, so yes, I use a small, fold up table. My photo printer is to the right of the table. It's simple, but I like it.

Heidi

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So I've recently adapted to a "desk" space, which is actually just my dinning room table. (my parents were to happy with the heat marks I get from my laptop when it's on my legs so they made me move, I also find it easy to type this way now...we'll see if i go back.)

Here's the set up now. Complete with a can of vault, and the 2006 "website award scoring sheet" as a constant reminder that I'm actually trying to finish my teams website (the application on the screen = syn text editor, I was actually working on the website :ahh: well actually, I've been working on it for almost 5 days!)

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Just curious...

Why is the webcam on the left monitor rather than the center monitor?

Tomasz Bania

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Sorry to steal your thunder Lavery and Fimmel but after amazing donations I have upgraded my computer to run with 4 monitors, yes 4! While they arn't great ones minus the one all the way to the left they work. Now on the one on the left, it is an 18 inch flat touch screen!, while I have yet installed what I need to run anything using the touch screen capabilities it still functions as an amazing monitor.
It is so cool, yet stretching things across all 4 looks rather awkward.
EDIT: OK the touch monitor isn't mine, sigh... It's the teams. It came with a beastly server we were donated and at the moment it is sitting at my house because we need to concentrate on finals rather than getting the server working. So until finals are over the touch monitor will act as a 4th monitor. Yet when I play Oblivion it becomes my main monitor, I roll my chair over put the keyboard on my lap and pull out the drawer further so I reach the mouse.

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i know this is kinda off topic but dous anyone know how to stretch videos across 2 monitors? i can mirror it with ati catilist but cant stretch it. btw im using a radeon x1300pro for my 2 main monitors. thanks in advance

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Yes, windows media player does now allow you to stretch videos across monitors, yet quick time does, at least for me. Beyond that I haven't tested it with other program.s

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(warning: big image)

Messy, and plenty of surprises!

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Here she is: my desktop.

The picture is about 2 months old, I have since traded out the huge old speakers for newer, better quality ones (with a 400 watt sub!)

http://www.hickmanfamily.com/craig/mr_compy.jpg

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This is my current system setup at home. There are two machines running 4 monitors, plus my PowerBook. I also have two additional machines under the desk that are currently out of commission.

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Nice setup ^ 4 monitors are hard to deal with but very useful.

My computers power supply got fried, so until the new heavier duty one comes in I am forced to run on a crap HP or an even crappier DELL. Hopefully it is only the power supply that fried.

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ok here is the huge mess and my computers from different angles, hey its a desktop too:

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Heh. The things I noticed right away were the controller and the backup battery, along with lots of fun, assorted wires. :D

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Here's my desktop. It's a bit cluttered but not too bad. A few Easter Eggs to be found.

Desktop Small
Desktop Large

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you also missed my power converter so no need to deal with big batteries and two cameras on the left :D its been my task to make it all cooperate

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Here is a couple pics of my desktop

http://www.rhodewarrior.org/setup/kfentonSetup1.jpg
http://www.rhodewarrior.org/setup/kfentonSetup2.jpg

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Now that's what I call "windows"

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^one question...does it change with the time of day and the weather?

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no, he took the pic minus the display, cropped out the area where the monitor is, put it as his desktop, and then put the monitor back.....

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Yup. Only problem is that I can only use my computer at around 3pm on cloudy days, and I can't move my head from side to side.

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My desk, yup, the legs were inspired by sawhorses. It's pretty clean right now, didn't have much "work in progress" or extra computers on/around it.

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i just built a Pentium D system built a coolant system from the ground up for it im runnung it at 3.52GHZ its stable at 90 to 100 degrees ferinheit. with 4 gigs of ram and a pair of 512MB NVIDIA 7600's with an SLI link. i have 3 monitors on my desk. i have it worked out so i can play a game fullscreen on on monitor and have windows still running on the other two Poor 32 bit windows will only use 3 gigs of ram. IM waiting on my copy of x64 edition and im beta testing Vista to see how itsgoing to run.

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nice system. (wish mine was that good, its actually getting there but my next upgrade is either new monitors or a new motherboard that has more pci and pci x16 ports.)

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Here's mine...



Yes, that is a wired router, it's sad, I know, but it works well.
And the giant printer/scanner/copier to the left of my desk is hooked up to the computer in the background.
My monitor is a 17" (hp vs17), LCD, with built in stereo speakers.
And when I got the desk, there was originally a shelf, but it was too low for the comp to fit under/above, so I custom built the drawer that's there now. [It basically just has all my junk in it - unread manuals, mousepads, a spindle of cd-r discs, new unused ethernet cable, camera, and whatever else I throw in there.]
There really isn't enough desk space to actually do school work, etc., so I tend to end up doing it on the couch in the background. :D

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Messy, rasterized pics for a messy, rasterized (not so much) desk.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...rson/00001.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...rson/00002.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...rson/00003.jpg

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I just redid mine last friday, thanks to IKEA.

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what's with all of the multiple monitors and expensive laptops? makes me afraid to take a picture of my desktop...

now this is what we should all have for a desktop:

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i have probably one of the most disorganized desks ever. you can see it here.
the pic is a little big, but without it being big you don't see the funny little things.

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Here's a picture of my current desktop:
http://zuma.phire.org/randompics//my_desk.jpg
The computer is a homebuilt Athlon64 in a Lian Li case, with 1gb ram, and half a terrabyte of storage. Dual monitors are piped through a GeForce 6800. The cd-rom drive has been stealthed to maintain the monolithic black look. In fact, I even gave the computer a WINS name of MONOLITH.

interesting side note: The certificate you can see in the upper right corner is from a middle school spaghetti bridge competition.

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O.K. This is my desktop:
HP zx5078cl - Pentium 4 3.06Ghz
HP Pavillion Desktop - Pentium 4HT
MacBook - Core Duo 2Ghz
30" Monitor
HP Photosmart C3180 All-in-One Printer
HP Photosmart C4180 All-in-One Printer
HP Photosmart 7900 Printer
HP PSC-2100 Printer
Western Digital 250GB External Hard Drive
Apple iPod - 30GB Video
Motorola V3c Razr
Motorola "Bag Phone" in working order
A million remotes
My yearbook
A Cello
A Mercedes-Benz Magazine
Atomic Clock
Weather Station
Chemisty Equipment
Books...Books...and MORE Books

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Now all you need is a picture of it and your all set!

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Printer and Computer. Yeah, the case came like that. (I'm software, not mechanical. :P )
The printer only prints in black and pink. If set in color mode, it will print grey in pink. Any help on this would be appreciated. (It's not the color cartrige)
The magazine in the 2nd pic I got for 5€. The DVD that came with it comes with 20 of "the best 30-day free trials" and a program that allows you to use 30-day free trials forever.
http://img107.imageshack.us/img107/2...omputerup1.jpg
http://img359.imageshack.us/img359/1...omputeruo3.jpg

Part of my computer and my monitor, my mouse, and my keyboard. I got the mousepad at Battlecry 7.
The batteries are there because as some of you may know, cordless mice *always* run out of batteries while you're playing an FPS.
Part of my chair is in the 2nd pic.
http://img107.imageshack.us/img107/8...monitortg2.jpg
http://img359.imageshack.us/img359/2...orchairub7.jpg

Close-up of my monitor.
It's raining men! Hallelujah, it's raining men! Amen!
The pic on the monitor is a clip from the "Mine" video. And yes, it's VLC media player.
http://img107.imageshack.us/img107/4...eyboardan9.jpg

An old computer I installed Ubuntu on, and my laptop.
http://img107.imageshack.us/img107/6...2laptopwg6.jpg
http://img359.imageshack.us/img359/4342/2ndcompci8.jpg

Close-up of the laptop. The mouse is labeled "Mouse", the laptop is labeled "Eric's Laptop" The magazine I got for 5€ (approx. $6.50) in Germany. It came with a DVD that supposedly has the full versions of Söldner: Secret Wars and Gorky Zero.
http://img107.imageshack.us/img107/4...opmousezj5.jpg
http://img359.imageshack.us/img359/6...agazinepn1.jpg

A stack of game boxes I have lying around for no real reason other than it's a convienent place that's nearby.
http://img107.imageshack.us/img107/5458/gamesto2.jpg
http://img359.imageshack.us/img359/3766/gamesmo8.jpg

This is to the right of my desk.
http://img359.imageshack.us/img359/6...tofdeskvg4.jpg

EDIT: Hey, I figured out how to turn the flash on. :D

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Does your camera have a flash?

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Sorry for the bit of a rez here, but I wanted to most my temporary summer setup. Since me and my brother are nose to the grindwheel on some exciting projects, we decided we need the ultimate development setup. After a few hours wrangling with BIOS settings so a PCI-e and PCI graphics card would get along:

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Nothing fancy, just one monitor, no laptop, but I DO have a Pathfinder poster on the wall! (So there!) oh yeah, and:

One sexy case
Athlon 64 3800+
Abit AN8 SLI
1GB PC2700 RAM (so slow)
eVGA PCI-e graphics card w/ NVidia GeForce 7900 GT (KO)
Creative Soundblaster Live! sound card
5.1 surround

Of course the most valuable thing on the desk is that quadrille notebook next to the tower. It's full of MORT sketches...

Pic 1
Pic 2
Pic 3
Pic 4
Pic 5
Pic 6
Pic 7
Pic 8

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check it out!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v5...y/HPIM0562.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v5...y/HPIM0563.jpg
i love my new sound system, i have two rears that are the same speakers as those in the pictures. Also more toward the right (don't have a pic) there's another monitor which i can change from my TIVO to my comp.

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Here's an old version of mine (nearly 2 years old, but the monitor setup is still the same):
http://images.bloveland.com/030805/widescreeeeen.JPG

The TiBook has since been replaced with a Macbook Core 2 Duo, the 20" CRT TV with a 32" LCD, and the crappy old server PC on the right with a dual Xeon 3.0 EMT64/3 Gigs of RAM. My desktop is still pretty old (2.8 P4, 2 gigs of Ram, dual 10k Raptors).

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Here's my desktop :p

Jacob

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My desk... the stuff to the right of the big yellow postit is my roommate's, the rest is mine :)
My piles o' shoes and sweaters... I guess it's just my big drop off spot for stuff after I get back from going outside :p
A closer look at my actual desk :)

Yus, I'm a little bit messy... my mom would have at my head if she saw these pictures, but eh, I've always been more tolerant of clutter than she has been. :p

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desk (as you notice, i installed the top incorrectly >.<):
http://img251.imageshack.us/img251/3566/dsc000909ii.jpg

toys :
http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/1381/hehenr7.jpg

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Until I get my new Mac Mini and its 20" Apple Cinema Display, here's my current setup. On the left is my Dell Inspiron 2200 laptop, and on the right is the G4 iMac. (The screen at the top of the picture is my 20" LCD television.)

My main desktop computer is in my living room, and thats a Dell Dimension with dual 3.0 Ghz Pentium 4 processors, 2.5 Gb of RAM, two DVD burning drives, and just south of a terabyte of hard drive space. In my basement are two more PCs (one running Windows 2000, the other XP Home), and a G4 Tower running Mac OS 10.3.


And yes, that really is an AndyMark single-speed tranny on my desk! ;)

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Thanks for the candy

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Here's an update:
http://lh3.google.com/jeff.rodriguez...Q/IMG_2237.JPG
It looks worse in the picture than in real life.

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Media Server, waiting on a sound card and going to replace that old TV with a 17 inch monitor

Sleeping area and laptop surfing

Workstation surver, Gaming Desktop, and random wires

Huge 10U rackmount server, doubles as a table

Overview of my desks

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http://img181.imageshack.us/img181/4558/1001714tz2.jpg
http://img177.imageshack.us/img177/8568/1001819dr1.jpg
http://img181.imageshack.us/img181/986/1001820qe4.jpg

The pictures are about a year old. I'm not sure why the old white CRT is in one of the pictures. It was replaced with a black LCD. My desktop is surprisingly clean in these pictures.

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Here is mine: ViewSonic 24' Widescreen, Custom Computer (Pentium 4 HT 3.8ghz O.C. to 4.4ghz 2G DDR2 Ram, ATI Raideon X1900 Pro, ASUS P5LD2 Deluxe Motherboard, 500gig SATA Maxtor Hard drive, Running Windows Vista Home Premium) (Oh and the new Camaro "On my calendar" is boss!)

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The new Camaro is HOT! With the Dodge Challenger final design coming out in just about 6 months and the Camaro following and then the Chevelle in 2011, I just cant wait. Now I am torn as to if I should buy a '69 Camaro and clean it up or if I like the new one more. The New Camaro is going to be expensive for me though, but the Dodge Challenger will be less expensive.

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You should really give it some deep thought and make the decision for yourself.

"Cough Cough Get the new Camaro!"

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Here is mine at the moment

Desktop
Machine Setup

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Here's my work arrangement from school:



The MacBook Pro I work on occasionally on the left leg, my own iBook G4 (which I'm about to list on eBay, actually) on the right leg.

Life is good.

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Just cleaned my desk today, figured I should post it while it is still in this condition.;)

Mac mini 1.83 core duo, 2gb ram W/ 22" acer lcd
PowerMac G4 533MHZ dual processors, 1.25gb ram, ati 9800pro
Acer laptop 1.8ghz turion 64, 1gb ram


The Laptop and mini are connected Via synergy. The G4 and Mini are connected though Gigabit Ethernet and use Qmaster to offload rendering in final cut pro and motion, it also functions as NAS.

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New screensaver from an band called The Nice from their album Elegy. I never have heard or owned the album but I had seen the image before and I really love it. It's created by a studio called Hipgnosis who are mostly known for thier iconic album covers for Pink Floyd including the ledgendary Dark Side of the Moon.

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Here's how mine was last year in school. I should have a similar setup by tomorrow.

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Antec Sonata II (Turned off the bright LED's)
2 gigs Mushkin performance RAM
6800 gs OC
Opteron 165 OC'd to 2.2 ghz
2x Dell 19"

I love my desktop background. I think I found it at www.devianart.com

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Here is my new setup.