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    Show us your computer room 2!

    Discussion in 'Notebook Cosmetic Modifications and Custom Builds' started by lupin..the..3rd, Jul 6, 2007.

  1. Albake21

    Albake21 Notebook Consultant

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    That is an awesome wallpaper, can you please post it?
     
  2. AotA

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    Looking at the pics, esp. the first one, I have a sudden urgent need to go out and get a new duster. Yech.
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    Left to right is Crunchy (who can do a mean Rinzler impression following a horror-story warranty-debacle that wound up with shipping-induced crushing :mad:), Frank (short for Frankenstein's Monster), and the youngest (who hasn't "earned" any sort of name yet). Frank's the grey one under the desk in the last pic.

    I'm still working on the cable management but it's a sight better than it used to be.
     
  3. talin

    talin Notebook Prophet

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    ^ ^ That's quite a set up.
     
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    The setup must had save you some heating bill.
     
  6. homank76

    homank76 Alienware/Dell Enthusiast

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    It's been a while since I showed my Alienware Command Center.

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  7. Kirrr

    Kirrr Notebook Deity

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    Dat big red monster! Looks awesome. Specs please...
     
  8. homank76

    homank76 Alienware/Dell Enthusiast

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    That is my Alienware M7700...nothing special about it.

    Intel Pentium 4 @ 3.8GHz
    Nvidia Quadro FX 2500m
    3GB of RAM
    500GB hard drive

    My heart and soul is the M18x which the monitors are hooked up to.
     
  9. Geekz

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    That is a niiiice setup!


     
  10. homank76

    homank76 Alienware/Dell Enthusiast

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    Thank you.
     
  11. Jarhead

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    So.... Orange...
     
  12. talin

    talin Notebook Prophet

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    Screw the setup. I want that apartment!
     
  13. Thaenatos

    Thaenatos Zero Cool

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    But you should love that orange...
     
  14. mattcheau

    mattcheau Notebook Deity

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    i do love that orange.

    Sent from my PI39100 using Board Express
     
  15. Jarhead

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    My university pride agrees.

    Though it looks so weird to see an orange laptop lol :p
     
  16. booboo12

    booboo12 Notebook Prophet

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    I'd love to own a orange laptop...i've been tempted to paint the lid on my beater of a machine but i'm afraid of doing a crappy job.

    :/

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  17. Steven

    Steven God Amongst Mere Mortals

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    What tablet do you have?
     
  18. Thaenatos

    Thaenatos Zero Cool

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    Samsung tab 2 7.0. Absolutely love it!

    Sent from my GT-P3113 using Tapatalk 2
     
  19. joshthor

    joshthor 100% Crazy Sauce

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    small update. not much new here.
     
  20. Colpolite

    Colpolite Notebook Deity

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    killkenny1 Too weird to live, too rare to die.

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    Homank, what GPU do you have in the Alienware? How do you find it running those monitors? Are you managing native res? I'm torn between a Dell U2711/U3011 or a 1080p monitor, don't know if I'll have the grunt with my Clevo for it to be worth it...
     
  26. homank76

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    I currently have Dual 580's driving the monitors at max res with no problems. I'm actually looking at buying an U3011 myself to replace my U2412 and I know I can drive both the U3011 and U2711 at max res just fine....I'm hoping.
     
  27. n1smo

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    This might have been asked already but there's like a million pages to this thread. Do you use the yoga ball as a chair? How is that working out? I'm looking for new ways to save my back.
     
  28. Metamorphical

    Metamorphical Good computer user

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    Late to the party I know but cool setup. Like the orange. Love the Genndy Microseries or The Clone Wars style Yoda.
     
  29. ALLurGroceries

    ALLurGroceries  Vegan Vermin Super Moderator

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    I use an exercise ball as a chair, and have done for maybe two years now. It's good for developing better balance and posture. But it actually compresses your spine more compared to a normal chair, so if you have lower back problems it's not going to be comfortable.
     
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    aye i do. it works fine. good for posture. every few months though it hurts my back though. tends to be during the stressful times at work. (black friday, now, major holidays)
     
  31. Yotsuba

    Yotsuba Notebook Evangelist

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    My little corner of paradise. I've been doing some work on it for the past couple of days. New chair will come on Tuesday, vacuum will be done tomorrow. Usual spoilers for giant pics.

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  32. Thaenatos

    Thaenatos Zero Cool

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    Here is my on the go setup.

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  33. pianowizard

    pianowizard Notebook Evangelist

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    I posted a photo a couple years ago but now my main setup looks very different, so here's an update:

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    You are looking at my HP 8300 Elite (Core i7-3770, 12GB DDR3 RAM, three 3TB hard drives, Intel HD Graphics 4000, Nvidia 8600GT, 8400GS and 7300LE) driving 7 monitors totalling 18 megapixels. The laptop to the left, my Gateway NX860X with 17.0" 1920x1200, is usually just used for playing background music.
     
  34. Geekz

    Geekz Notebook Deity

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    Thinking of getting this to put on my computer room to replace my desk and chair.

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    from o b u t t o - 2012 home
     
  35. Thaenatos

    Thaenatos Zero Cool

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    I like that alot! I use 2 external LCDs and my precision screen and I take up ALOT of desk space and its damn near uncomfortable to work for extended periods of time.
     
  36. Geekz

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    Same here, I'm more interested in the comfortable chair and keyboard/mouse arm.

    Good thing about it is it's modular, if you don't need the lcd mount you can remove it along with other parts


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  37. pianowizard

    pianowizard Notebook Evangelist

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    Two suggestions: 1) rotate the external LCDs into portrait orientation, and 2) replace the Precision with a desktop computer, which you can put on the floor. It's ironic that "laptops" are actually used on desktops, whereas "desktops" are usually put on the floor so you get more desktop space.
     
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    Wish it was that easy, much faster to plug a work laptop to multiple screens at home if you need to work than copy files from a work laptop to a desktop setup.



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  40. pianowizard

    pianowizard Notebook Evangelist

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    To each his own. I prefer to transfer files to and from work using my smartphone, so I don't even have to carry a laptop, which means I can walk faster and don't suffer shoulder/back pain. (Cloud storage wouldn't work for me because my file are often HUGE.) Another advantage is that my desk at home is less cluttered than for people using laptops. Laptops take up so much valuable desk space, as Sphinx complained above.
     
  41. Jarhead

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    Moved back onto my campus apartment, got a bookcase for much-needed storage, and cleaned out everything on my side of the room (roommate moved out for co-op). Didn't have my laptop in the room at the time.

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    Of course, I have to have my Hellsing collection. Need to get the rest of the mangas though T_T

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  42. Apollo13

    Apollo13 100% 16:10 Screens

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    Love the orange Alienware a couple pages back.

    I don't feel like picturing my current setup right now. Imagine a card table from the '30s with a laptop on it (yes, 1930s). And you're most of the way there.

    Instead, you get a picture (attached) from the old college days. Not that dissimilar from Tigertown in the dorm setup. I was pretty lucky with that dorm - had about 8 windows. The laptop featured is a IBM ThinkPad X41 tablet PC that I was borrowing that semester. Kinda slow compared to my regular one, but the tablet functionality was cool, as was the fact that it was an IBM.
     

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  43. Geekz

    Geekz Notebook Deity

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    small files are synched through dropbox on mine, however most of my work are stored on different virtual machines with sizes ranging from 40gb-80gb. (sigh.... and that doesn't include the different development configurations per client like vpn, source control settings, different versions of visual studio etc...)
     
  44. Syndrome

    Syndrome Torque Matters

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    ^^^

    Do a secondary HDD with a Black X at each location. Do another drive at your work location to back up your files for good redundancy.
     
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    Moved my tower into the basement so that I can enjoy silent, heat free gaming. 45' hdmi, 40 ft cat 6 with usb to cat 6 adapters on either end, audio over hdmi, powered remote hub for jump drive, and remote power on.
     
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    I dont think you have enough monitors haha
     
  47. dukenukem

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    here's my hp elitebook 2730p with slice battery which just arrived today :).
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  48. baii

    baii Sone

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    Music Bank :)
     
  49. dukenukem

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    Yep :),just love the girls of k-pop.
     
  50. jaug1337

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    who doesnt? :cool:
     
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