The number one spot goes the to most amazing setup that I have ever seen. Not only is the setup amazing, but the coverage and showcasing it is also amazing. There is even a site dedicated to faqs about the office.
Mitch has converted his attic into an office where he can telecommute from. Highlights of this setup include a mac pro loaded with storage, 180 degrees of monitors and a Kinesis freestyle keyboard. Check out his faq site where he showcases the hardware used, and his build process.
In case you missed the last week. I have covered 4 other workspaces that are all worth a look. Here’s a list of them below.
Steve Price also came in second place when Gizmodo featured 134 of the most impressive workspaces you’ll ever see. I think that Steve Price should have won that, as he has a far better setup than the setup that won. My winner, that will be shown here tomorrow, beats this setup legitimately. So, I’m sorry Steve, you’ll have to live with another #2 spot.
Like many others, Steve Price is also working on building a new setup, as seen here on his blog.
Check Back tomorrow for #1. The winner really deserves this, as it is by far the best setup that I have ever seen.
The number 3 spot goes to Steve Larson, for his rig that won the Gizmodo Reader’s best computer rig contest back in 2007. Even by today’s standards, it is a sick setup. It definitely looks like it belongs on a ship in The Matrix.
He is in the process of building a new setup right now; it is being documented on his Flickr stream. His new setup looks immense, with at least 15 monitors. It looks like it could be the command center for NASA.
In an ideal world, this is what my room would look like. I am just a few years away from collecting that much computing equipment.
Yesterday, Chris Pirillo took the 5th spot on my list of top 5 workspaces. Bilista57 narrowly beats our Chris Pirillo for the number 4 spot. I first discovered Bilista57’s when browsing youtube, and I discovered his setup video a few months ago. He hast recently posted a few more videos in this post. Bilista57 beat out Chris Pirillo mainly because he had more toys. They have comparable computer setups, but Pirillo is lacking the gaming systems and big TVs. I am sure that Pirillo has a good entertainment system, but he I haven’t seen it featured on his blog, so he loses out in that category. Also, Bilista57 has a visible server close by, which is definitely FTW.
Today’s featured workspaces is that of the famous blogger Chris Pirillo. He has a webcam pointing at this desk 24/7, so you can always check up to see if he’s working. He’ll often have interesting things to say to the camera, so it’s worth the watch.
His workspace features quite a bit for a geek to lust over. The first thing one notices are the 2 enormous 30″ Dell displays that provide him with ample screen real estate. His dual monitors are powered by a mac pro. This photo above is out of date, as it still shows Chris running Vista. Above his desk, there are a bunch of flashing coloured lights that actually do serve a purpose. They are 6 TIX LEDs clocks.
Although Chris is not the first person in the world to use 30″ displays in a dual monitor setup, he was one of the first to popularize it, and make them seem non-excessive to the non-geeks.
I have always been envious of many of the elaborate work spaces that I come across online. The likes of Gizmodo and Lifehacker have been highlighting many work spaces over the last few months, and I have been bookmarking the best of these.
I have compiled a list of what I think are the top 5 work spaces on the internet. Each day this week, I will be highlighting one of these, starting with number 5 on Monday, and counting down to number 1 this Friday.
My ideal workspace is still a work-in progress. I am going to work as a treeplanter this summer, and I will be putting some of my money earned to doing an overhaul of my workspace at the end of this summer.
Pictured above is the the V1 Chair, which would be in my room right now if it didn’t have a $2000 price tag.
That’s right, after my next hardware upgrade, I am going to be ditching hard drives. Seriously, why does my computer still have gears and motors in it? It’s not a freaking adding machine from Babbage’s lab. My transition away from hard drives will most likely happen in the next desktop that I build. I am going to be switching to solid state drives. There will still be a place for HDDs in a backup roll for me, but not as a device that my OS runs on.
Solid state drives (SSD) are rapidly falling in price, making them a reasonable cost for the performance gains. Most SSDs can achieve about 200 MB/s access speed. In a desktop, this can be dramatically increased by putting a few SSDs in RAID 0. I posted a video a few weeks about a guy that put 24 SSDs together in RAID 0, who got insane access speeds of about 2 GB/s. Obviously, I wouldn’t be able to afford 24 SSDs (unless someone donated some to me ), but I can see buying about 4 being practical in the near future.
Below is the results for an HD Tach test that I just ran on my laptop. My current 5400 rpm hard drive had just of 70MB/s peak access speed. I just can’t deal with these number anymore. Hard drives are by far the bottleneck in today’s computers with fast processor and memory. It is time to start ditching hard drives.
If you’re not convinced yet, check out this insanely quick boot accomplished by putting two OCZ SSDs in RAID 0. It’s not as impressive as the last video that I posted, but it is still pretty darn quick.
The number one spot goes the to most amazing setup that I have ever seen. Not only is the setup amazing, but the coverage and showcasing it is also amazing. There is even a site dedicated to faqs about the office.
), but I can see buying about 4 being practical in the near future.
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