Mac Setups: Photographer’s Workstation
Jan 26, 2013 - 7 Comments
This weeks great Mac setup comes to us from Ivo P., a wedding and lifestyle photographer who uses the following hardware to handle the images and process his work:
- MacBook Pro 15″ (2011) – 2.2Ghz Intel i7 – 8GB DDR 1333 DDR3 – Matte Screen at 1680×1050
- Dell U2412M 24″ 1920×1080 (connected to the MBP)
- iPad Mini 16GB – black Wi-Fi
- iPhone 4S 16GB – black
- 2 x 2TB WD External HDD as a working drives + backup
- 1 x 1TB Samsung USB HDD for Time Maschine backup
- 1 x 1TB Samsung USB HDD as a portable backup
- 5 x 1.5TB WD Green 64MB 5.25″ SATA HDD as a backup drives used with Thermaltake Black X double HDD adapter case
- Apple wired keyboard
- Logitech M-U0007 mouse
- 7 port USB Active Hub
- Datacolor Spyder4Pro monitor calibrator
- Cambridge Soundworks “Megaworks THX250D” speakers
- Griffin laptop stand for MacBook
That’s a serious amount of disk space, and the Thermaltake BlacX USB docking station
is a really great way to be be able to juggle multiple SATA drives as if they were standard externals. PS: you’ll be forgiven if you initially thought the MacBook Pro was a MacBook Air too, but the matte screen option removes the black bezel in addition to the gloss.
Show us your Apple & Mac workstations and desk setups! Send us a good picture or two along with a brief description of the hardware and what you do with it over to osxdailycom@gmail.com
2 comments of discontinuity:
Easy one: no one makes 5.25″ HDD’s; those are optical drives. The physically largest HDD’s nowadays are 3.5″ (desktop drives).
ToughER one: I’m confused about, in the same section, saying there’s 5 x 1.5TB drives. I see two of them plugged into the 1 mentioned dual docking station, but I don’t see the other three…
The missing 3 HDD’s could totally be somewhere else in the picture, but the mistake with the 5.25″ vs 3.5″ drives is definitely wrong. Sorry, (kinda) nitpicking ;)
Hi JeffY,
You are right! The HDD are indeed 3.5″, I made a mistake. The other three are not in the image, since they contain old backups and i don’t use them a lot.
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Lol
Same Mac, Same monitor, same work :D
Pretty similar setup here too, hard to argue against what works best!
I second @dfs request for the wallpaper if anyone has it…
Where is this awesome wallpaper of Dubai and Burj Khalifa at sun set?
The drive caddy is great, I have one of those too. Really nice setup.