Are you in a garage
My setup is in an old garden shed I’ve converted to my tech studio.
I added insulation, radiant barriers, lighting, air conditioning, and have three 3d printers, a laser cutter, and a workstation for my laptop with a wide-screen monitor along 2 sides, and a workbench and tool wall on the third.
Whole conversion probably cost about 1200 in materials, and it’s amazing.
3 3d printers, a laser cutter, a workstation, a wide screen monitor, and an ac for under $1200?
Just trying to figure out what exactly that $1200 covers.
$1200 was for a mini-split AC, plywood, insulation, and some Ikea Skadis boards to convert the shed.
They did say just the conversion cost that much. The most expensive thing was probably the AC unit to convert it into a nerd studio. The rest of the stuff is what you place the now-converted room.
Yeah.The laser was about 2k and the printers are about 1200 between them.
What goes on the fourth monitor?
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I feel a little cramped for space with 4 monitors these days. 6 is actually my preferred setup, but I don’t have the desk space for it.
I find 2 per PC is my useful limit. Which means my current 5 isn’t quite enough. Monitor arms are always a challenge at that scale, though.
My work laptop’s graphics card maxes out at 4. I’m pretty sad about it.
Mine too. It’s kinda sad.
I never understood the obsession with multiple screens. Isn’t it better to be obsessed with one giant screen? That way you don’t get black bars in front of you.
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I got to clarify. I’m talking about a single ultra wide screen with high resolution but also scaling so texts aren’t super small. There are gaming ones that are OLED so great color and performance. Both windows and Mac OS have software that lets you split in half or 1/3 + 2/3 (which you can’t do with two screens).
It’s ultra wide so you can look left and right and not top and bottom.
If you’re connecting a laptop, you’ll have a tiny screen for slack or a video or something.
I do agree that it’s more expensive.
Thank god, MS Teams now lets you share a window instead of a screen. Coworker would share his 4k and all of us needed magnifying glasses
I strongly agree, which is why I use a single 65" 4K gaming TV, instead of 4x 32" 1080p monitors arranged in a grid. You get the same screen real estate, minus the bezels.
a single ultra wide screen with high resolution but also scaling so texts aren’t super small
Meaning, 3440x1440?
Yes, 34 inch
Yes, mine is 35 inch. That resolution on that size is the sweet spot for pc screen, imo.
Yep, chat/slack and email too.
I got 1, HD screen
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One out of the 3 monitors doesn’t match, and none of them are OLED (or even IPS).
The unmatched screen makes that part of the wallpaper better
