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I love me Mac. You see, this is the first laptop I've been able to do this:

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What on earth is going on?

  • Top Left Workspace, is OS/X Leopard - naked. With Skype, Notes, all my non-business stuff. Thats notes 8.5 beta basic, BTW. I still cant get 'standard' working, and I dont have time to try.
  • Top Right, is parallels with an image of my old Blingmaster. So I have a Domino server, and Notes 801 (designer, etc) running all the HADSL business stuff.
  • Bottom left, is a current customer work environment running XP under VMWare fusion. Notes 6.0.3 (yeah, seriously!), lots of VPN action, etc.
  • Bottom right is where iTunes lives, feeding me podcasts all day.
All of this on a standard MacBook Pro with 4gb (and a slightly faster hard drive). All day, every day.

Perhaps I'll pursuade the wife I want a under-the-desk Mac Pro, like David Clarks. quad Xenon-quad-core with 32gb of Ram, and a pair of 30" displays... Mmm..

Posted by Bill Buchan On 13/06/2008 | Digg This |

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Gravatar Image1 - Notes 8.5 b1 can be run in basic config on mac? Wow, missed that one.

Posted by Kerr At 11:38:18 On 13/06/2008 | - Website - |


Gravatar Image2 - That's all very nice and dandy... but what about gaming? Emoticon

Posted by Pedro Quaresma At 12:14:51 On 13/06/2008 | - Website - |


Gravatar Image3 - ...and you can expand the spaces to show up to 16 virtual desks - in a 4 times 4 grid

Posted by Gregory Engels At 13:36:32 On 13/06/2008 | - Website - |


Gravatar Image4 - Doom 3 of course.. Colin McRae rally.. And the nintendo Wii next door..

---* Bill

Posted by Wild Bill At 13:36:55 On 13/06/2008 | - Website - |


Gravatar Image5 - I can recommend the MacPro solution you talked about - although I would not go for 2 30', better 2 (or 3, which I have 23'). The 30' are just too damn big. But with 3 screens, you can make swishing noises and pretend you are on the deck of the Enterprise.

Posted by Andrew Magerman At 13:37:54 On 14/06/2008 | - Website - |


Gravatar Image6 - I was curious how others were arranging their screens. Mine's about the opposite. top left: Fusion - day to day Notes designer
top right: skype, iTunes, NeoOffice, various mac stuff
bottom left: Firefox
bottom right: Notes 8.5 standard (email, corporate apps)

If running 2 vms, usually both in top left

Posted by Lance Spellman At 06:13:26 On 17/06/2008 | - Website - |


Gravatar Image7 - Ahh. I smell a religeous war brewing - the 'top-lefties' versus the 'top-righties'. And of course the complete schism - the 'horizontal workspace' flat earthers..

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Dunno. Horses for courses really.

---* Bill

Posted by Wild Bill At 10:20:08 On 17/06/2008 | - Website - |


Gravatar Image8 - Can you post a bigger screenshot?

Posted by CC At 17:56:08 On 18/06/2008 | - Website - |


Gravatar Image9 - CC - ah - no.. The idea was that you werent able to actually *read* my inbox, or the work in progress. Emoticon


---* Bill

Posted by Wild Bill At 17:37:02 On 27/06/2008 | - Website - |


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