I was working for a friend the other day, helping a company move all their computers from their old office to a new one. Whilst my mate got on with the important stuff like servers and networking, my job was simple, just unplugging computers and putting them in a box, and then taking them out, plugging them in and switching them on at the other end.
One thing I noticed was how nicely designed the cable management on the apple cinema displays was. They were paired with Mac Pros and I'd never seen them before. Just one relatively slim cable coming up from under the table to the monitor. Then the keyboard and mouse daisy chained off the monitor. I thought this was such a great design compared to all the other crappy set ups I had to faff around with all day, which had 4 cables coming from under the table and all going in different directions. Are there any non-Apple monitors which have similarly good cable management?
Oh and although I'm a fan of Macs, you do get the odd fanboy which are funny. There was a guy who was particularly worried about his special Macs, but couldn't give a toss about the PCs. He asked me what I was here to do, and I said "I'm here to decommission the PCs", to which he replied "oh right, so they're sending a specialist to do the Macs then?". That obviously made me laugh. But then the next day at the new office I was given some stickers, one set marked 'MONITOR' and another set marked 'PC' to mark the plug sockets. God forbid if someone pulled out the wrong plug a few years down the line. But then the same guy asked me if I had any 'MAC' stickers as it would not be correct to label the Macs PCs. I laughed at him... but he was serious. I said no. He went away for five minutes, came back and said he had an idea... just to label the Macs as PCs, it'd have to do. :roll:
Makes me laugh even now.
/unnecessarily long thread about not a lot.
One thing I noticed was how nicely designed the cable management on the apple cinema displays was. They were paired with Mac Pros and I'd never seen them before. Just one relatively slim cable coming up from under the table to the monitor. Then the keyboard and mouse daisy chained off the monitor. I thought this was such a great design compared to all the other crappy set ups I had to faff around with all day, which had 4 cables coming from under the table and all going in different directions. Are there any non-Apple monitors which have similarly good cable management?
Oh and although I'm a fan of Macs, you do get the odd fanboy which are funny. There was a guy who was particularly worried about his special Macs, but couldn't give a toss about the PCs. He asked me what I was here to do, and I said "I'm here to decommission the PCs", to which he replied "oh right, so they're sending a specialist to do the Macs then?". That obviously made me laugh. But then the next day at the new office I was given some stickers, one set marked 'MONITOR' and another set marked 'PC' to mark the plug sockets. God forbid if someone pulled out the wrong plug a few years down the line. But then the same guy asked me if I had any 'MAC' stickers as it would not be correct to label the Macs PCs. I laughed at him... but he was serious. I said no. He went away for five minutes, came back and said he had an idea... just to label the Macs as PCs, it'd have to do. :roll:
Makes me laugh even now.
/unnecessarily long thread about not a lot.
. The monitor solution is nice for desktops but not really terrific for laptops in my opinion. They are rather expensive, thats true, but the colors are really great.
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