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A 32" LG functioning as FullHD TV, and monitor for my Hackintosh.
The Apple keyboard is accompanied by a matching Apple Magic Mouse. Wonderful pieces, both.
Every one of the images on the wall has some kind of meaning to the both of us. From my love of Simpsons to her love of Alice in Wonderland and our love of food and illustration, It's a tribute to the awesome relationship we share! (I know... super cheesey)
Plex Media Center running on my Hackintosh is being mirrored into the living room, giving me big-screen access to all my movies and TV shows.
Installing OS X on a Dell Vostro A90n.
Intel Atom N270 processor
16GB SSD
2G DDR2
4-cell battery
802.11g
Bluetooth
I also have an 8GB SD card for extra storage.
My main camera bag is the Kata Owl-272 DL but I needed a "Go Bag" for when I don't need my whole kit. So I picked up a Timbuk2 Snoop insert for my Commute XL bag. I've had this bag for years and it's always served me well, but never really used it as a camera bag. I was hoping Timbuk2 would come out with a proper insert and they did.
The Snoop small insert is a perfect fit in the Commute XL bag. I almost bought the meduim one but I'm glad I didn't. Fit and finish is typical top-notch Timbuk2. The dividers are secure and easy to adjust. I was concerned that my DSLR w/ vertical grip wouldn't fit but it does. I'm able to carry the Sony Alpha A500 with Tamron 17-50mm f/2.8 and battery grip installed, 70-210mm f/4 "Beercan", HVL-F42AM Flashgun, Dell Hackintosh Laptop and various accessories. Fully loaded, the bag is comfortable to carry and everything feels well protected.
Mouse over the pic to see what's in the bag. What's missing: B&N Nook Color running CyanogenMod.
Strobist Info:
Main Light: Adorama Flashpoint II 620M w/ 24" softbox.
Kicker Light: Adorama Flashpoint II 320M w/ 40 degree grid.
Triggered w/ Pixel Soldier TF-373
I want to be a MacPro.
So work had this iMac G4 in a pile of stuff scheduled to be destroyed. No one was sure if it worked or where it had come from. Someone said "A storage closet we think." So I asked if I could have it instead of it being wrecked if it worked.
The power plug was there so I fired it up and it had a locked install of 10.4.10 on it. A little terminal work later and I was in. What a find too.
800mhz PPC G4
768 MB of DDR
GeForce 4MX 64mb
1440x900 17" Display
SuperDrive (Squee!)
Whoever owned this before wasn't playing around when they bought it and totally topped it out. It's a slick little device, I'm getting Leopard 10.5.6 to throw on it now so some more current software will work on it. Can't believe they were going to scrap the little guy.
Finally a Machine I'm proud of! A mITX i5, 8GB, 1TB, HD3000, powerful enough PC with Mac OS X Lion running smoothly.
Like a strong Mac Mini.
I have been meaning to redo my home office for a while now and it is now complete. My main LCDs are these 2 27inchers. They are multi-inputted and I switch back and forth between all my computers as well as having dual extended view out of my Hackintosh and Windows 7 laptop. With ambient backlighting, it is pleasure to sit in front of 'em and get some work done even when I'm home.
This doesn't show my #hackintosh, my workhouse that has an Intel Core i7 processor (8 cores), 8 GB of memory, and two large screens. I built the #hackintosh in 2010.
My MacBook is from 2008, my iMac from 2006. Happy long lives for them!
Two of these rattan drawer boxes fit exactly in my EXPEDIT, forming a multi-purpose drawer set. Mainly for cables, hardware, CD barrels and socket multipliers.
This is probably the most accessed drawer in the room. Batteries, mice for the trackpad-impaired visitors, camera, mp3 player(s), adaptors, etc. have all found their place in there.
Where art is created and work is completed.
Specs:
OSX Yosemite 10.10.1
GA H61m-DS2
Core i5 2500k
GTX650
8GB Corsair DDR3
60GB PNY SSD
I have been meaning to redo my home office for a while now and it is now complete. Black computer far left is my Hackintosh. Antec case in the middle runs my flip-clock and serves as my XP machine when I need that old piece of crap. The HP on the far right is a computer dedicated to media viewing on one of the big monitors.
My computer setup. Everything is nice and clean. Barely any wires visible.
Twin Dell 2407WFP's. Magic Mouse and Apple Wireless Keyboard. XTRAC Ripper XXL mousing surface. Logitech Z5500 speakers with controller. Macbook Air 11". Yes, it's a Hackintosh.
I just built this for a friend, it's the ultimate dual boot hackintosh, check out the build review at failedexe.com
My iPad on the coffee table, running the iOS Plex App being used to control Plex on my Hackintosh and watch it on my TV. Game of Thrones is on!
That beast refuses to get along with Mac OS X, for some reason. It's an i7 2600 one, with tons of RAM and HDD and, unfortunately, not mine.
Plex Media Center running on my Hackintosh is being mirrored into the living room, giving me big-screen access to all my movies and TV shows.
Built a Hackintosh inside this nice G4 case. It's a shame Apple doesn't make proper cases anymore, but I guess with the OS being free, they have to make money on custom HW.
My Home Office -- in shambles at the moment
from left to right
Bryco minidv storage rack
bucnch of cd/dvd ( old programs movies photos and music)
old 2 drawer file cab -- bottom is files for living and the top is crap im working on
Shuttle sb51g hackintosh ( love this )
on top of shuttle is 2 lacie usb hard drives bottom is older 250 ( for hackintosh backups
top usb is 1.0TB for windoze ( acer aspire one and hp dv6000 ( not in picture) )
various crap on desk
minidv camcorder ( panasonic pvgs80)
samsung 570v lcd -- need to get my other one from work
other various crap pn the rightside of desk
hp scan copy print c4180 printer
below you can see the network command center
Working on getting the office set up at the new house. Still some stuff to do, but here's the desk.
Mouse over notes for a very "Fight Club" IKEA consumer orgy.
Stage 2 of the G5 Pc. Now the parts are all "well" placed.. allot of customization done to make all this stuff fit inside the G5 case. It now runs legit OSX
I just turned a cheap used Thinkpad in a perfectly usable 'Apple' notebook.
w00t!
This is an IBM ThinkPad T41 with 1.5GB RAM RUNNING IATKOS 5i (Leopard 10.5.5)
What works:
- Native 1400x1050x32bit display resolution
- audio (mic and oudio output work. Skype runs fine)
- ethernet
- USB
What doesn't work:
- Quartz Extreme and CoreImage (ATI Mobility Radeon 9000 driver doesn't support it)
- built-in WiFi (there is no proper intel iw2100 driver)
My workaround for the WiFi was to buy a NetGear WG111v3 USB wifi adapter which works great with the drivers from RealTek. You can see the adapter sticking out on the left of the ThinkPad.
Note that I had to fiddle quite a lot with kernel extensions to get everything going. My sole source of information to get everything going was the excellent InsanelyMac Forum. Believe me, EVERYTHING you need can be found there.
Graphics are a bit sluggish due to the lack of QE/CI so gaming, HD video etc. are out of the question. It works fine for surfing, office stuff, photoshop etc. though!
Took me almost three whole days to get OS X 10.6.6 setup to the point where I could start installing applications normally and boot successfully nearly every time. Last thing to do is put in a new wireless card, which is currently in the mail. I love how small this laptop is but wish the screen had a little more resolution to it.
Shown in the ultrabay (dock) but no longer able to use that flawlessly. It seems that the computer will only tolerate being docked all of the time or being out of the dock all of the time. Could be worse.
I opened everything I could find until I had used all 4GB of RAM. Photoshop with a half-dozen RAW files, a movie or two, iDVD, Windows XP in Parallels, a dozen FireFox tabs, iPhoto, iWeb, Mail, iCal, iTunes with some music playing, Adium, CSSEdit, Transmit...everything I could find, and then used it like that for a couple hours. It ran great.
Using the shell of a broken 1986 Mac Plus 1MB sourced from eBay - I filled the innards with a 6 hard drives (2.3TB total) and an intel atom motherboard. This is now my time machine server. I didn't have space for the screen so it's got a 10.4" digital picture frame to replace that. It's getting wifi soon as well. Not actually difficult to do, surprisingly.
Parts included -
Plus some drives, sata cables and a power supply from scrap I had eating up space in a cupboard
[Edit 18/01/2011 added wifi thanks to this adaptor sourced from eBay]
Now featured on Macenstein.com, Cult of Mac and TUAW
The adjustable legs allowed for the HELMER to be used as the other side's legs to provide me with more space in between them.
My Current home setup =)
Left to Right:
1. Santa Rosa MBP: 4gb of Ram, 2.4ghz
2. Hackintosh Q6600 4GB of ram
3. Macbook Air 1.6ghz
4. My Westinhouse LVM-37W3
I've been tinkering with Mac OS for ages and ages now on and off, switching to-and-fro between XP.
Finally I think I will be using OS X as my main operating system on my custom built computer, I always have an install of XP in VMWare Fusion down there in my dock if I require it :)
Specifications are as follows:
Intel Pentium Dual-Core CPU 2.0GHz @ 3.20GHz
Gigabyte P35-DS3L Motherboard
4GB 800MHz Corsair XMS2
nVidia GeForce 7900GS (Yes old card, but do I game? no.)
640GB Western Digital Caviar Black (This is one heck of a fast HDD imo)
500GB Samsung HD501LJ
200GB Seagate (Unknown model) used for music mainly.
Pioneer DVD+-RW (Not sure about model but it's awesome)
ThermalTake Soprano case with clear window.
22" Edge 10 DVI display @ 1680x1050
Leopard 10.5.6 with latest updates (Vanilla install with bundle of P35-DS3L Kexts to get devices working properly but apart from that the kernel and main OS are absolutely untouched thanks to Leopard's great support for the P35 Intel chipset :) )
Is it better than buying an official Mac Pro or iMac? of course it's not, but it's pointless flashing my ££ for something that will just look pretty innit.
After previous abortive attempts, I successfully installed OS X 10.5.6 on my HP Mini Note PC and fully loaded it with apps in a single shot.
The bad news? I needed to. While optimizing XP, my drive was corrupted and I don't have a restore disc. A Hackintosh was my last resort for a working computer with internet access.
Not a permanent solution, as ethernet and the mic aren't working. Sound's a bit wonky too. But wi-fi and apps are running fine.
You can move your mouse over the photo to identify the gear.
The one piece that needs explaining is The-Flame - it's the silent PC I built originally to be a hackintosh, and then just ended up doing lab duty. I documented the gear here:
www.brentozar.com/archive/2009/05/how-to-build-a-silent-pc/
These days, I just use it as a general purpose lab box, throwing different pieces of software on there to evaluate and then wiping it clean. At the moment, I'm running StarWind's iSCSI target software on it, which lets me use it as a storage server.