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MP All Models What does your home office look like?! :) Mac Pro 7.1 but everyone welcome to share!
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It's the master thread for the series that the thread compiled. Not the master thread for my thread. Thanks for sharing though
Very fun seeing them all together.Like this?
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The 5,1 and 7,1 are nearly identical in size, just that the 7,1 is maybe very slightly less tall. The 6,1 is obviously way smaller. The 7,1 case cover is very, very heavy to lift and is a very tight fit.
Inside the 6,1 is jammed full of components, no more room left for anything else. The 5,1 and 7,1 might be externally similar size, but the 7,1 is far smarter inside - much more room to upgrade. It only has one CPU, while the 5,1 has to make room for two of them.
Of them all, the 7,1 has greatest impression of quality. Serious thought went into the design of that machine. The 6,1 is quite scary to pull apart, you end up with a desk full of computer parts and no computer anymore.
Out of them all, the 6,1 is still relatively fast and you can take it with you, it is not heavy. Even with my injuries I can carry it about in a bag.
The other two are not portable at all - they are equally heavy. With the 5,1 Apple deserves credit for creating a machine that still serves so many people and is able to be upgraded far beyond what was originally intended. The 7,1 takes what the 5,1 did well and does it better. And just subjectively I think it looks amazing sitting on the desk, it is beautiful modern design.
🔥🔥🔥 This s fire. Clean, simple, and 7.1 candy
Clean because the walls are freshly painted!
Makes a huge difference getting rid of the ugly old beige 80s style paint.
Clean because the walls are freshly painted!
Were they beige or were they the golden champan'ya effervescence that is 'starlight'?
Really like your lava lamp, I haven't seen one in a long time. You need a nixie tube clock
Been a while over here...I wonder who has done any updates to their battle stations I added a new piece of kit to mine, but as I'm currently on a project, I haven't had a chance to clean up since it's been installed...will update once I do though
I added a new piece of kit to mine, but as I'm currently on a project, I haven't had a chance to clean up since it's been installed...will update once I do though 
Been a while over here...I wonder who has done any updates to their battle stations
I’m in the middle of a huge rewiring to install my 7,1 in a cupboard (after reinforcing the shelf) with all 3 displays on 7.5m displayport cables to my desk. Cupboard also has my photography drybox, a 2009 A/V mini, and a temp NAS 2012 mini, while I get all the data sorted from the decommissioned 4,1/5,1. Plan is for the NAS mini to stay on High Sierra, and inherit the Time Machine backups & data management (Hazel Workflows etc) from the old High Sierra cMP, until I can get a Synology solution for it. The fresh Ventura 7,1 won’t have any local storage for files.
If we don’t sell the house soon, I suspect I might end up putting an Aircon zone into the top of the cupboard, so I can temperature control it.
Is it too much of a mess to see right now? Please post some pix for sure when it's done! Sounds awesome!
Here's my heap of junk!
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L-R: HP2211X monitor, conneted to bothe the cMP3,1 and the Windows machine. The Windows machine is an Acer mATX board in a monster Corsair Obsidian 750D case with a Corsair 650W PSU, total overkill, but it was all freebies, so...
The Windows behemoth is a Haswell i3-4160 with 16GB of, you guessed it, Corsair RAM ( my younger son and I like Corsair...) and is Rufus-patched to run Windows 11 Pro.
The iMac 10,1 is running Linux Mint 21.1 natively and doing it very well. The cheesegrater is running High Sierra, again very well, but I will probably move it on soon.
L-R: HP2211X monitor, conneted to bothe the cMP3,1 and the Windows machine. The Windows machine is an Acer mATX board in a monster Corsair Obsidian 750D case with a Corsair 650W PSU, total overkill, but it was all freebies, so...
The Windows behemoth is a Haswell i3-4160 with 16GB of, you guessed it, Corsair RAM ( my younger son and I like Corsair...) and is Rufus-patched to run Windows 11 Pro.
The iMac 10,1 is running Linux Mint 21.1 natively and doing it very well. The cheesegrater is running High Sierra, again very well, but I will probably move it on soon.
Slightly updated my setup. M2 Air still resides in a specific drawer in Clamshell mode, is connected to a hidden USB hub that allows to charge and sync the 13 mini, hook up to the Kensington mouse and some other hidden charging cables (USB-C on the right side of the desk, Micro USB on the left side).
Still working on some minor tweaks and improvements. Cable management under the desk still needs some inspiration (see next post). Would love to your hear your opinions and ideas!
Cable management is mostly under control but I could not figure out a good option to "channel" the cables from the desk to the drawer. The cable length varies greatly between drawer closed and open. Until I get a USB-C monitor that can be connected with one cable, there is no way around channeling the HMDI + USB-A + USB-C cross from the desk to the drawer. Any ideas and improvements are welcome.
I like the woven cable protectors. They come in several sizes and you can easily combine and hide plenty of cables.Cable management is mostly under control but I could not figure out a good option to "channel" the cables from the desk to the drawer. The cable length varies greatly between drawer closed and open. Until I get a USB-C monitor that can be connected with one cable, there is no way around channeling the HMDI + USB-A + USB-C cross from the desk to the drawer. Any ideas and improvements are welcome.
Cat cables for networking and display extension, analog and digital audio (24 channels) , clock and other stuff.
It would look really messy without those.
Or even on the desk it helps to contain cable chaos.
For example cat and power supply..
Well, its clean enough to see now - taking a break after wrestling with three 7.5m displayport cables for a day, trying to figure out which one best connects with which display. Tomorrow, the desk gets some attention.
Display & power cables routed along the underside of the machine, with adhered 3M Command Hooks.
A little DIY tip for reinforcing a shelf that might sag under the weight of chonky equipment - slotted steel L channel screwed to the shelf’s front edge, to prevent flex. Then L brackets - bonus the long slots in the channel mean the bracket screws have leeway for positioning.
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No... it's from Amazon... wife had it sitting in a closet, so I grabbed it.
DreamSky Compact Digital Alarm Clock with USB Charging Port, 0-100% Brightness Dimmer, Large Bold Number Display, Adjustable Alarm Volume, 12/24Hr, Snooze, Small Desk Clocks for Bedroom Bedside
DreamSky Compact Digital Alarm Clock with USB Charging Port, 0-100% Brightness Dimmer, Large Bold Number Display, Adjustable Alarm Volume, 12/24Hr, Snooze, Small Desk Clocks for Bedroom Bedside
www.amazon.com
Mid-2011, late 2009, early 2008 iMacs, Mac Pro in its box. All four cost a total of £155.
My home setup, mind you that the 7,1 underneath is now in my living room.
Already changing it up again so an updated setup will be on here very soon!
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Already changing it up again so an updated setup will be on here very soon!
This is VERY cool
I'm currently updating my setup as well. Will post when it's finished