I'm an SVP at a music company, running our Emerging Technology group. It means I'm half CTO and half business development.
What Hardware I use:
Work Primary:
- Mac Pro, 8 core, 3.03 ghz with 16 gigs of RAM. 4 TB of hard drive space, and dual Nvidia something or others.
This drives two Dell U2711 27" displays and 2 23" Samsungs with those ultra high res PPI.
Hooked to this machine I have an external BluRay, Drobo Elite with 8 TB for offline, a 2TB time machine drive, an Apogee Maestro hooked to two Rokit 6 studio monitors from KRK and a Magic Touch Pad. I also have a Kinesis freestyle split keyboard, which I have spaced about 10" apart. My iPad goes between the two halves of the keyboard.
My Laptop is a 17" I5 Mac Book Pro.
I also have a iPad, iPhone, and a few Android phones for testing.
HOME:
We have a Mac Mini server in a closet with a 4TB RAID off it and an iMac quad core i5 for my wife. She has an iPad and iPhone.
I use the left screen for iTunes, Pivotal Tracker and a VNC console to a screen of "tops" running on all our servers. We call it the War Games Console.
Left screen is email and "communications/information" including NetNewsWire, some other feeds, etc.
Middle right is my primary display for browsers and coding.
Far right is where I keep rememberthemilk.com, Gabble (a Yammer client), Echofon (twitter client) and IM/Skype.
On my Ipad I usually have SkyGrid running, which is a realtime news client. My laptop on the left is just so I have it available.
The other thing about my home setup is the MacMini server controls our lighting and thermostat and other systems in the house. I designed the house infrastructure to be computer-like, including states and conditional actions.
What Hardware I use:
Work Primary: - Mac Pro, 8 core, 3.03 ghz with 16 gigs of RAM. 4 TB of hard drive space, and dual Nvidia something or others.
This drives two Dell U2711 27" displays and 2 23" Samsungs with those ultra high res PPI.
Hooked to this machine I have an external BluRay, Drobo Elite with 8 TB for offline, a 2TB time machine drive, an Apogee Maestro hooked to two Rokit 6 studio monitors from KRK and a Magic Touch Pad. I also have a Kinesis freestyle split keyboard, which I have spaced about 10" apart. My iPad goes between the two halves of the keyboard.
My Laptop is a 17" I5 Mac Book Pro.
I also have a iPad, iPhone, and a few Android phones for testing.
HOME:
We have a Mac Mini server in a closet with a 4TB RAID off it and an iMac quad core i5 for my wife. She has an iPad and iPhone.
We have a Sonos for home audio.
My primary software:
Chrome, Safari, Textmate, Terminal, Evernote, Supersync (to sync itunes libraries), NetNewsWire, various Fluid apps (Instapaper, Pivotal Tracker, Github, etc), Omnigraffle, Photoshop, Fireworks, Illustrator.
My primary development environment is Textmate. I prototype in Python.
Web services used:
- Basecamp - Pivotal Tracker - Helpspot - Assistly - Github - OpenAtrium
and lots of custom stuff we have.
I have my dream setup pretty much, I'd just like a nicer desk and a faster Mac Pro