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Here's some photos of my Mac set-ups. Macs, Macs and more Macs.......
		The new Set up finally This is my newest set-up for my desk. I have a new Aluminum 15 inch PowerBook 1.5GHz G4 when the Aluminum PB were released. I have it sitting quietly in an old heavy duty metal keyboard drawer with a Belkin power supply sitting on top. On top of the Belkin power supply box I have an Apple Colorsync 20 inch monitor attached to the G4 PowerBook. I don't use the LCD display, just the external video output and the 20 inch monitor and it works well that way. I also have a USB white Pro keyboard attached and a Logitech MX1000 laser cordless mouse. The MX1000 is a very very nice mousey to use. I highly recommend the MX line of cordless mice. I also have a Firewire 80GB hard drive sitting to the left running Tiger to see what I think of it before I upgrade Panther on the PowerBook. Tiger was released a month after I bought the PB and Apple wouldn't give me a copy. Bastards..... I spent over $2,500 on toys that day and and they didn't care that Tiger was supposed to be released when I bought the PB but was delayed. So I didn't get Tiger until later. Next to the Firewire drive is a Sony DVD+ burner I just added to the mix. I was getting tired of the 700MB limit on CD's for burning back ups of work so I got the Sony DVD-R which has 4+ GB of burning goodness. I also have the Harmon Kardon Sound Sticks for sound and it sounds excellent. Also in the pic is my little 466MHz Clamshell I use when I'm lazy and too burned out to sit at my desk.
		My Workspace Set-up This is the current work set-up I'm using. My Main Mac is a Qucksilver 2002 800MHz G4 tower over clocked to 867MHz running OS 10.5 with the dual Graphite Apple 17 inch CRT Studio Displays. The G4 has 1.25GB of RAM and an 120GB drive for the OS and applications. I also have asecond 320GB drive for storage. The dual monitors are attached to an AGP GeForce2 MX card (thanks Wally) and a ATI Radeon 9200 PCI card. They both handle Leopard pretty well but without Core Image support. This photo is not realistic though. I cleaned up my workspace just for the photo and is never that clean. Don't ya just hate those photos of uber-clean desks with everything in it's place ? I know I do...... So I'm including the before-photo of what my workspace usually looks like... well it's not usually THAT bad but it can get that way after a really busy week. I also have a new-to-me Mac Powerbook toy that is not in the photo. It's a Lombard 400MHz G3 Powerook with 512MB of RAM and it runs OS X pretty well. I really liek the Lombards and for the money you can't beat it for going cordless on a Mac.
		A trip into the dark side....... This is the cluster-f*#k mess that is usually what my workspace looks like. From left to right: And yes, there is a Windoze Peecee under the desk on the left side. It's my garage sale $20 AMD 2800+ Peecee I use for playing games like GTA Vice City. Unfortunately some of the really cool games are still not available for Macs so I have a Windoze Peecee for that purpose. I did put the AMD board into n Antec Cheiftec Dragon server case with lots of room for expansion. Next is the Silicon graphics grey monitor attached to an SGI Indigo I've been playing around with for fun. The dual Garphite 17" CRT Apple Studio Displays make a nice set-up for the G4 and using Photoshop. The Mitusbishi CRT's Apple used is fairly decent for color matching. And the Gigabit Ethernet Dual 500MHz G4 is underneath the desk where it doesn't make too much noise. It's sitting on a piece of wood to help circulate air around the Mac to keep it a little cooler. (NOTE: The Dual 500MHz G4 has been replaced by an 867MHz Quicksilver 2002 Mac) updated pics to come soon hopefully ;-) And next to the Graphite monitors is a 450MHz B&W G3 I keep around for the ADB port becasue I have an old Wacom ADB tablet I use occassionally and the Mac G4's do not have ADB ports anymore. I have the B&W G3 attached to an A/B switch box which will allow the B&W to run on the right Graphite monitor when I want to use the G3. I can switch back and forth from a dual screen landscape on the G4 to a single monitor set-up on both the G3 and G4 Macs by turning the knob. Next on the far right is a swing away monitor stand that mounts to the desk. It holds an eMachines flatscreen CRT I use for testing stuff. It can be pushed back out of the way for convenience and that comes in handy in a mess like this. LOL And there is misc. crap, toys and computer stuff all over......... Such is my life.