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Every year or two, I like to share my desk tour featuring the Mac-centric products that i use to record and edit his videos for the channel. Here's my updated 2024 desk setup tour, highlighting desk accessories that could be worth checking out for your own setup.
My Previous 2022 Desk Setup Tour - • 2022 Desk Setup Tour!
🔗 Product Links:
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UpLift Credenza - bit.ly/3xHXjwA
Gather Monitor Stand - bit.ly/3Q8MI4b
Apple Studio Display - amzn.to/3UnGAHO
Apple Mac Studio - amzn.to/4d1KNZ2
Alti Wireless Charging Desk Mat - bit.ly/4aZPMrn
Wireless Charging Desk Mat Alternatives - amzn.to/3xH0THn
Iodyne Pro Data 24TB SSD Storage - bit.ly/3W8z98D
Keyboard Duster - amzn.to/3xHJaiX
Audioengine Speakers - amzn.to/4d6vDBV
Lab22 Headphone Stand - bit.ly/49Jy6iw
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Nomad Stand One Max - bit.ly/3UmQQQp
3-1 Charging Alt - amzn.to/3Ju31EM
Google First 25 Years Book - www.damaia.com/google
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⏱️ CHAPTERS
00:00 Introduction
00:17 UpLift Desk and Accessories
02:32 Dual Apple Studio Displays
03:03 Desk Setup Powered by the M2 Ultra Mac Studio
03:21 Video Sponsor: Keeper
04:26 Gather Monitor Stand & Shelf (Ugmonk)
04:52 Iodyne Pro Data (24TB SSD)
06:32 Peripherals & Wireless Charging Desk Mat
07:01 Nomad Stand One Max 3-1 Charger
07:22 Keyboard Cleaner
07:45 Frames, Ikea Peg Board and other stuff.
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I’m a multi monitor person. The physical division helps me stay organized better than one large monitor. That said, they bought us new curved monitors at work so I now have a 32” curved in the center and 2 22” widescreens situated vertically on each side. We call it the Tie Fighter.
I have the same desk. Uplift is the best desk I have ever owned. The motor is great. They have a TON of accessories you can add to it like an under desk CPU tower holder, drawers, monitor arms, desk mats etc. I have 2 monitors but I recently went back to just one 32" 4k 32GQ950-B and calibrated it. Looks amazing. I have 2 PCs into one monitor. The Mac Studio and a Gaming PC. Went Audio engine speakers because I have them hooked to the PC physically and to the Mac via bluetooth and can play both sources simultaneously.
I used to use 2 external monitors. I switched to a 32" and will eventually go for an ultrawide. I like the one monitor because it keeps it clean, and anything over 32" allows you to treat one monitor as if it were 2.
I don’t like turning my head left and right all day, so I have one studio display that I look at right in the center. My MacBook pro is to the left, but I only use that screen for zoom calls and minor things. I also have my iPad Air hooked up via USB/sidecar and it sits beneath the studio display for a little extra screen space. I also have an uplift desk with the walnut finish. I have had it for a few years and still love it.
This was great! Thanks.
Laptop + 3 External 2K monitors. No going back. Love it.
Btw, to make the Magic Mouse a class above most input devices, get a cheap *glass mousepad* . It makes it a smooth frictionless glide, and it makes it way more accurate as well.
I've been using dual 27 inch 4k displays for years and love it. It provides two clearly defined work spaces. One for Final Cut and one for everything else.
I just kinda hate that I am never look dead center but either slightly left or right haha
Mac Studio with 1 Studio Display VESA vertical for documents and Finder, e.g. and 1 LG 32" horizontal for media and rest
Ok, your storage solution is amazing. While I need no where near that amount of storage space, I'm curious about one thing. How do you get your Mac to use the external storage for your Adobe projects by default? Every single time I start a new project, Adobe creates it within the "Documents" folder on my internal storage and sync'd with iCloud. It's a big big mess!
I have two VESA mount studio displays suspended about 11” above my 60” x 30” sit-stand desk by a heavy-duty dual arm mount from Vivo that’s clamped to the back of the desk. These are powered by an M2 Max Mac Studio. The studio displays are angled so I look at both face-on, and their edges touch above the middle of the desk. I love the dual displays.
I’ve been on team uplift desk too for about a year or so. It’s a solid desk. I’m using the L currently with a Maple top. 80x78. I use a single 49 inch super ultra wide and then on the return a single Studio Display. For my daily job I can get away with a super ultra wide but not a traditional single 27 inch display. I have a lot of references open and other things when I’m working and tabbing through or space switching would drive me insane.
I always go with just one monitor. In fact in the entire organization I am the only one with one monitor and I use a lot of keyboard shortcuts to go between the open windows that I don’t need an extra monitor to take extra space I don’t have.
Definitely need 2 external monitors to manage the data heavy work I do
When I went dual monitors many years ago I noticed that my productivity increased but that I felt more neck strain and hated the fact that I didn't ever look dead center. The answer for me was to get another monitor and now I have 3 27 inch 4k monitors mounted on monitor arms. So a lot of the time if I'm not doing a lot of multi tasking, I just use the monitor in the middle but if I am doing heavy software development for example, I can have every app I need open on different monitors. That said, on the other side of my office, I have one single ultra wide monitor for my personal use and it is really nice. However there are certain dev projects I work on where my productivity would fall harshly with the loss of screen real estate.
Last time Dan did one of these I spent too much on upgrading my desk 😂 here comes another desk remodel! Ultra Wide monitors are awesome, feels like 2 displays but in one.
Let me know what you end up buying 😂
After years of using two monitors, I have switched back to one 32” and I’m much happier and more focused.
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1 MONITOR PERSON!!! I thought I was the only one!
I prefer two monitors: one horizontal and one vertical. Vertical monitors are great for things like code editors, websites or Apple Music/Spotify playlists.
Tried to work once with multi monitors but didn't work out with me.🙃 Still prefer one big 32 inch is enough.😇 If needed, just add it up quickly with iPad Pro 12,9 or MacBook Pro M3 Pro (instead of your Mac Studio).😄
2:45 I'm definitely a multi monitor person but with the Studio Display you end up dropping something like $3200 MSRP for a couple 27" monitors as you pay for redundant things in two monitors like speakers, webcam, A13 chip, 64GB storage all at insanely inflated prices. MacOS is also really buggy with multi monitors especially when you go third party(go check out all the threads at Macrumors with the Mac Studio not being able to identify identical 3rd party monitors correctly or active window losing focus on external display).
this is why i went to windows for desktops and only macs for laptop use macos is clearly aimed at being used with a trackpad on a single screen in a visually casual friendly manner; thats where all of the money is at since apple primarily makes money in laptops for personal computers hence apple's QC for desktop use is a joke especially when you start to venture anything outside of their ecosystem
check out the Woo Audio WA7 headphone amplifier. Would look lovely next to all your white and Apple gear.
Ultra-wide 34" monitor. Also where did you get the wobble board?
Uplift!
what are the gray fabric and wood framed chairs that were next to the ottoman.
“Homajor accent chairs” - type that into Amazon
I have 2 Studio displays and a 27” LG 5K Ultrafine monitor 😅 I m a software engineer Where does the art come from?
My dream 1 monitor set up is the LG 5K2K. It was originally released in 2019, so not sure if it’s worth getting still. It’s unfortunate LG hasn’t updated it.
Yeah i would shy away from that one these days. It’s got strange compatibility issues with Mac’s
how do you deal with the dust that gathers into the Mac Studio?
The duster I showed at the end though compressed air is probably better for that particular use case
Great!👍
I have one monitor in front of me and the second is to the right so it’s like having one but you have an extra
Dude: Magic Trackpad. Do it. 🙃
By the way, I went for a BENQ P3225U because I wanted a 32 incher instead of the 27 inch studio display, and I love it!
Didn't even mention the sweet Fujifilm X100 that is still impossible to find.
3:00 used to be on ultra wide 38 inch monitor but replaced it with BenQ PD3220U 4K monitor.
for the price of that Iodyne stuff for photo and casual graphic design work, I'll still stick with a NAS 😭😭
I'm one monitor standard 27 to 32 inch is my ideal monitor.
Ultrawide at home, second display + MacBook at the office. :)
Dual monitor all way.
I'm totally a dual monitor kind of person. I'm upgrading from a Late 2015 27" iMac to a Mac mini so I had to get a second monitor :)
one monitor 34 inch Alienware. very nice setup
Ultra-wide 2:1.
First! Also, what analog camera is on your desk?
fuji x100V
famous last words, "I'm being a little risky here" XD
Yeahhhhh I’m scared now
that Gather Monitor Stand would work perfectly with my set up.... and the white one is sold out
😭
Agree. Don't like the two screens as they are.
A two monitor kind of setup
ooh
Damn, I would definitely keep the XDR display. If you could, get two. Way better than the ASD. I know the price. Maybe get a ASD next to the XDR. I love having 3 displays (2 monitors and laptop.)
Still have XDR but buying two studios is less than one Pro Display 😅
@@macrumorsPut the XDR in the middle horizontally and the two Studio displays vertical. You would have to get the vesa mount version, but they do have auto rotate built in.
05:52 > RAID is not a backup solution, yes some configurations may give you redundancy. But if you delete your data, you can not recover because you had RAID.
Sorry meant having another copy of your drive in case one goes down
I’m developer, I like either one or three monitors. No two monitors.
One monitor person, hate ultrawide... Would be best, if 3:2 monitors started to emerge in the market.
And your chair?
Herman Miller but I forget the exact model
I wish Apple would make a proper ultra wide monitor, flat not curved
Yes
I am surprised you're using a Magic Mouse! I swear this is the least comfortable mouse for the last 15 years.
Try windows
I love the magic mouse 🤷🏽♀️
It’s actually amazing, but you do have to learn how to use it for a while to understand that. It’s a small mindset shift to get used to no buttons and a trackpad surface. Once you do its one of the most comfortable and smoothest mouses I’ve ever used.
It’s weird. I feel like I’m conditioned to hate it but I can’t give it up
nobody needs 2 monitors IMO
Yeah I kinda agree. Though there are times where it’s very helpful
It seems kind of dreadful to be locked into spending your time in such a sterile place.
Your cable management is upsetting and makes me question your way of approaching a project like this video. It tells me ‘lack of effort’… guess that’s the theme lately.
Or maybe I constantly get new products for review and things need to be changed out so committing hours to really good management seems like a waste 🤷♂️