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I've been thinking about an ideal working setup. Lots of people fantasize about these things. I used to have two 24" monitors with a pansy dell laptop to power

I've been thinking about an ideal working setup. Lots of people fantasize about these things. I used to have two 24" monitors with a pansy dell laptop to power them. Now I have just a 17" MacBookPro. It's excellent, but I could use more pixels. The ideal setup would be a MacPro with 2 30" screens, with something like MacBook Air setup to mirror my configuration. It would be docked like my iPhone, auto-install software that I install on the desktop, auto-configure to match the relevant system settings, auto-update the local repository that I'm developing, etc. Any time, when you need portability, you could take the Air. I'm sure a simple script could get most of this done on a local wireless network. Too bad I don't have $13K to spend on it ... yet.

ivankirigin 19y ago
To be technically correct, the ideal monitor setup is N M" screens, where N is 1 greater than your current number, each currently (M-2)"
- pchristensen 19y ago
  This would get my +10 upvote of the day
- tb 19y ago
  I believe that ideal monitor count goes up in a Fibbonaci sequence. e.g. When I had two monitors, I wanted three - now that I have three, I reckon five would be brilliant.
alaskamiller 19y ago
This is where .Mac's BackToMyMac really shines: http://www.apple.com/dotmac/backtomymac.html http://www.apple.com/dotmac/backtomymac.html They should have pushed this as well in the keynote. I'll have a MacPro/iMac, or even a MacBook Pro, on my desk and when I need to go to catch a flight, show a keynote presentation, or do some typing somewhere, I'll just grab the Air and walk away. Come back and everything's resynced and backed up on my Time Capsule. My current system involves juggling my desktop, my dell laptop, and my macbooks, along with like 15 different drives.
- ivankirigin 19y ago
  That is nice, but it should push to the ultra-mobile, not pull from the desktop. Configuration and code versioning is something that should be automated, and a pull through miscellaneous wireless networks while mobile is a bad way to go.

ivankirigin 19y ago

To be technically correct, the ideal monitor setup is N M" screens, where N is 1 greater than your current number, each currently (M-2)"

pchristensen 19y ago
This would get my +10 upvote of the day
tb 19y ago
I believe that ideal monitor count goes up in a Fibbonaci sequence. e.g. When I had two monitors, I wanted three - now that I have three, I reckon five would be brilliant.

alaskamiller 19y ago

This is where .Mac's BackToMyMac really shines: http://www.apple.com/dotmac/backtomymac.html http://www.apple.com/dotmac/backtomymac.html They should have pushed this as well in the keynote. I'll have a MacPro/iMac, or even a MacBook Pro, on my desk and when I need to go to catch a flight, show a keynote presentation, or do some typing somewhere, I'll just grab the Air and walk away. Come back and everything's resynced and backed up on my Time Capsule. My current system involves juggling my desktop, my dell laptop, and my macbooks, along with like 15 different drives.

ivankirigin 19y ago
That is nice, but it should push to the ultra-mobile, not pull from the desktop. Configuration and code versioning is something that should be automated, and a pull through miscellaneous wireless networks while mobile is a bad way to go.