So if you’re anything like me, from time to time you have computer envy or system envy. I can remember browsing the web one day and I came across the photo this guy posted of his office at home. I was instantly in OMFGIWANT mode. This guy had not one but TWO apple cinema screens, and a huge lcd tv, as well as video games… movies.. shit, this looked like geek central. I had died and gone to geek heaven. I saved the photo.

This is not my office so we’re clear.. read above if you skimmed.

I remember seeing this and thinking… I can’t wait until I can get a Mac Pro.

At the time, I felt the need to take a pic of my little desktop/system and post it on my then blog..

1 – Mac Mini – It was all I could afford, my other system had just crapped out due to a power surge and I had about $700 to spend so we bought a Mac Mini. This was my first apple, the computer that started it all for me I suppose. Looks small and useless, but it had a geekbench score of 2475 so it wasn’t too bad. Quiet as a mouse, zero desktop space. It’s only shit point was lack of harddrives..  which is why (3)(4)(5) are there.

2 – Samsung 24” screen. Once you own a Samsung screen, you generally don’t like anything else. Samsung has it’s shit together and then some. GREAT screen.

3/4/5 – External hard drives. Much needed for storage of the network I was working on at the time. Keep in mind, this photo above is 3.5 years old.

6 – Lipo 6 – fatloss pills basically. I wasn’t fat but I had 5 pounds I wanted to trim up. lolz

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So I had a system that worked well but wow, to have my dream set up… that’d be sweeet. I just put the nose to the grindstone as they say and worked and worked and worked. This was still 2 years before we started Bryci.com  or the other Bella sites.

Then one day I come across this image…

I jizzed in my pants.

Sweet mother of god.. 30” screen in the middle, two 23” screens, not one but TWO MAC PROS. A Biomorph desk (they run around 3500-5000), this guy has audio video pro tools as well so whatever he’s doing.. daaaamn.

Once again, I had computer envy. Not quite penis envy, sorry ladies.

After a year of hard work, I decided fuck it and reinvested in myself. Business is important, so I picked up a Mac Pro and 30” cinema screen. Cost a little but fuck it, gotta invest in yourself to be better in life. If you’re a race car driver, you aren’t going to win races with a 78 Pinto, you gotta step up.

Way better than before, I could finally see things! I thought I had reached my limits.. this new system was so much faster then I was used to. Wow. I then of course was able to expand my abilities, I was able to multi task like crazy. Many of you hate Apple, you’re hardcore Windows users and that’s cool. I was that way too for many years, building my own PC boxes and thinking Windows was the way to be. Then Microsoft created Vista and well, it made my transition to getting off Windows easy. heh (Vista was the suck)

I felt like some pompus prick with the fast computer. All of a sudden I had a Ferrari for a computer. Wheeeee!

It was great, but wouldn’t ya know it, my desk wasn’t quite cutting it. Always something right? We lived in BC at the time this pic above was taken, but then we relocated to Calgary and as such, moved from a condo to a house. All of a sudden we had tons more room. Bryci picked up a new desk as well, which was freaking huge for her laptop she had at the time. (she then had a 13” Mac Book, now she has a 15” Mac Book Pro).

Thank you Ikea for the desks.

This was better. Soooo much more room. I loved this set up but in time I started doing more and more video editing and I started to see the restraints of one 30” screen. Fucking crazy isn’t it? When you’re editing HD video though, space is your best friend.

We ended up moving back to BC because Calgary was just too fackin cold. haha.. As such the offices got smaller, more cramped again. Wait, what’s that? Yes.. we left BC after another year and now we’re back in Alberta, Canada. More room again.. wheeeee.

I snapped this with the iphone so it’s not huge, but you get an idea of the workspace I am at daily for many, many hours. Hard work does pay off, but god damn… it gets to a point where you sort of forget where you started. Well, you try not to. I remember barely having two dollars to rub together. I was there so I know I could be back there if I don’t keep on working, busting my ass. I’m not rich by *any* means, but I at least have three dollars now, so I can rub two together and it doesn’t phase me too much. Thank fuck.

This pic is older, when i was still drinking Pepsi. I dropped soda about two months back and I drink water only now.

So.. a break down of what you see in the pic if you’re a geek like me and you’re curious.

left to right

Aeron chair – best chair you will ever own. Period. No exceptions. Worth every damn penny. I have owned mine for 3 years and it feels identical to the day I bought it. If you watch tv and movies, you’ll see these chairs almost always in offices and board rooms. These suckers are the Rolls Royce for your ass. Well worth it.

On desk…

Two Apple Cinema 30” screens. Shelf is just a piece of pine picked up at Home depot, then I slapped on some 4” legs I picked up online from Ikea.com. Simple, looks clean.

Two apple keyboards. Easily the best keyboard I have ever used.. small, flat, streamlined if you will.

Two Logitech G9 mice. – Amazing mouse. *HIGHLY* recommend. You can switch sensitivity on the fly so for gaming if you game, this rocks. I don’t have time top game so i haven’t tried it for gaming.

Apple 17” Mac Book Pro 2010 edition, Intel 2.66 i7 chipset, 8 gig ram. 500gig 7200 drive. Geekbench score is 6324. (it’s quick)

Under desk…

Two Mac Pros

system 1 – Mac Pro 2008 edition – 2 x 2.8 Xeon processors, 8 cores. 24 gigs of ram. Geek bench score of 11191. 4 Seagate 1tb hard drives. CRAZY fast system. This machine I leave in Windows 7 for when i need Windows.

system 2 – Mac Pro 2010 edition – 2 x 2.66 Xeon processors. 12 cores. 24 gigs of ram. Geek bench score of 23573. 4 2tb Seagate drives. Insane speed. I use this for HD video editing.

Under the desk, hidden by the chair… 7 Seagate 1tb hard drives in hot swappable caddies, all daisy chained via firewire 800. On top of the Mac Pro’s… 3 2tb  drives that are scratch disks for video editing.

No, I am not bragging, sorry of it came off that way. I just get asked often what I use, and I came across a pic of when I was wishing I had a diff set up so I wrote a blog.

Workin hard is fun, I would have it no other way.

Commence Apple hating now Danny.