![]() It’s a Steelcase Leap v1 which someone was selling for £50. My chair is the bargain of the whole setup. As a nice bonus, the motors haven’t failed since I installed the new controller! Chair It’s a small thing that makes a huge difference, and well worth the $45. This enhances the desk with memory positions - pressing the up button a specific number of times will automatically move the desk to the pre-programmed height. One of the best parts of the desk is a customised version of the controller, dubbed Megadesk. Luckily the desk has a 10 year warranty, but it’s a real pain to swap out your desk, and so on reliability alone I couldn’t recommend it. Purchased in 2015, this is the third incarnation after the motors failed on the previous two. The sound quality more than makes up for it, though! DeskĮverything (except me) sits on an IKEA BEKANT sit/stand desk. The only complaint is I find them a little uncomfortable to use all day, compared to the Jabra Move headphones I used previously. The old adage, you get what you pay for really applies here. Even though I work from home, years of office work have conditioned me to wearing headphones while I work - nowadays they are useful at drowning out the household noise, rather than open-plan office chatter.Īfter faffing around with cheaper headphones, I invested in the Bose QuietComfort 35ii cans. The essential companion to a coder’s day. You will notice from the picture above that I like to use the laptop display as a third screen, this ruled out the (otherwise excellent) Henge Dock. It’s really nice to be able to dock and undock the laptop so easily, something that was a bit of a pain with the older MBP design. After a false start with a Caldigit dock (which didn’t seem to recognise displays when the laptop woke from sleep), I settled on a Startech Thunderbolt 3 dock which has been pretty much flawless. Since I was looking to connect two external displays via DisplayPort (to achieve 60Hz refresh rate across the board), options were limited. For many, this means dongle life / hell but a nicer outcome is the option to connect the laptop to displays, input devices and power via one cable. ![]() Although the touch bar took much of the headlines, another big change was the introduction of USB-C ports for all external connectivity. Sadly, they don’t seem to exist! DockĢ016 saw a big Macbook Pro design refresh. Since I look at code all day, crispness of text is of paramount importance to me.įor reference, here is the ppi for some other common 4k screen sizes:Īlso worth noting is a 5k 32” screen has the same ppi as a 4k 24” one. I specifically wanted two smaller screens to preserve ‘retina’ sharpness: these displays offer a screen density of 183ppi (pixels per inch), which is not too far away from the MBP’s built-in screen (which has 220ppi). They are 24” in size, which is unusual for 4k displays: most are at least 28”. I use Docker on a daily basis and although at the time of writing there is a tech preview available, it doesn’t seem worth the upgrade until it is ready for prime time.Ī dual desk mount arm holds two Samsung U24E850 4k monitors. Docker is not fully supported on the M1 chip (yet).I have considered a Mac Mini but the portability of the MBP (even in lockdown times) is not something I’m prepared to sacrifice. My setup has always included two external monitors, and going back to one would seriously hamper my productivity. The M1 Macbook Pro only supports a single external display.I have serious M1 envy, but two things are holding me back: I still stare occasionally at the touch bar, marvelling in its uselessness. Thankfully, the laptop is docked 99% of the time, which means I don’t have to use the awful keyboard. Each time I’ve made sure to buy one with Apple Care, which has been essential - in both cases I have made a claim (for this device, the screen had a group of dead pixels - the screen replacement would have cost £600 otherwise). This is the second time I’ve bought a Mac from eBay. Purchased second hand on eBay in October 2019 for £2,399.00, which included 2 years Apple Care. My main machine is a 2018 Macbook Pro (aka the one with the touch bar), 15” screen, 2.9 GHz 6-Core Intel Core i9, 32GB RAM, 1TB SSD. In this article I’d like to share my home office setup. ![]() Personally, I have been enjoying the benefits of home working since 2014, although I am fortunate to have a separate room in which to call my ‘office’, and so it is easier to maintain a healthy work/life balance, and I can shut the door to drown out the noise from the rest of the household. ![]() The figures don’t lie: in April 2020, almost half of the workforce in the UK worked from home. The COVID-19 pandemic transformed the workplace for many people during 2020, closing offices and forcing millions to work from home. ![]()
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