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This isn’t my set-up, but the monthly MacFormat magazine I buy (three months old thanks to sea-mail) has a “Me & My Mac” page in it and the latest issue has a “Design Student” who lives in what appears to be a posh appartment and has all of the following equipment:

- Apple PowerMac
- Apple 30” and 23” monitors
- Apple 12” and 15” PowerBooks (15” belongs to his girlfriend)
- Apple Mac Mini (used as a media centre)
- Apple’s wireless keyboard and mouse
- three external hard drives
- some external speakers with sub
- nine Apple iPods (various models including U2 , Shuffle and four Minis)

It’s set-up on a rough-sawn-look wooden desk (probably expensive even though looks cheap) with an expensive Aeron Herman Miller chair.

And this guy is supposedly a student?!?! Plus he’s has only been using Macs for 18 months!

Evidently he does travel “a lot” back to Taiwan from England, so he or his family must have bulging bank accounts.

grin

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Buzz Bumble - Oct 29, 2005 11:33pm

This isn’t my set-up, but the monthly MacFormat magazine I buy (three months old thanks to sea-mail) has a “Me & My Mac” page in it and the latest issue has a “Design Student” who lives in what appears to be a posh appartment and has all of the following equipment:

- Apple PowerMac
- Apple 30” and 23” monitors
- Apple 12” and 15” PowerBooks (15” belongs to his girlfriend)
- Apple Mac Mini (used as a media centre)
- Apple’s wireless keyboard and mouse
- three external hard drives
- some external speakers with sub
- nine Apple iPods (various models including U2 , Shuffle and four Minis)

It’s set-up on a rough-sawn-look wooden desk (probably expensive even though looks cheap) with an expensive Aeron Herman Miller chair.

And this guy is supposedly a student?!?! Plus he’s has only been using Macs for 18 months!

Evidently he does travel “a lot” back to Taiwan from England, so he or his family must have bulging bank accounts.

grin

That student is so unreasonable rich, it annoys me.

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That is rediculous.  I am a student and I can only dream of things like that.  If i had that i would never leave my dorm.

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Apart from iPhoto (presumably he has a digital camera too) and iLife, it doesn’t even mention what software there might be.

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Buzz Bumble - Oct 29, 2005 11:33pm

he or his family must have bulging bank accounts. grin

perhaps drug dealers?

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that seems unecessary.

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Damian B. Guevara - Oct 30, 2005 01:55am
Buzz Bumble - Oct 29, 2005 11:33pm

he or his family must have bulging bank accounts. grin

perhaps drug dealers?

If they were drug dealers he would not need an education.

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Why would you even need 9 iPods? Or 2 PowerBooks?

It’s excessive even for a professional, much less a student.

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michaelstone - Oct 30, 2005 12:52pm

Why would you even need 9 iPods? Or 2 PowerBooks?

It’s excessive even for a professional, much less a student.

Only Steve Jobs needs 9 ipods.

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Why would anyone need 9 ipods?

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annette - Oct 30, 2005 03:32pm

Why would anyone need 9 ipods?

well,. if they’re minis you need all the colors aviable for matching with your clothing.

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thats why i got two nanos.  one for my white clothes one for my black.

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see what i mean, that’s capitalism baby, if you have the money why not? if i had it i’d buy one 12” and one 17” powerbooks.

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haha. good point i never thought of that way. why would i carry around a pink mini when i have a blue shirt on.

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It’s cheaper to buy one of the multi-coloured iPod skin packs (plus you wouldn’t have to keep juggling the syncing of multiple iPods).  grin

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I am not a huge fan of the skins. I have a blue one but it makes my ipod look kind of cheap. Maybe I just haven’t found a good skin yet.