Gadgetory

yo guys johnathan here and welcome to dream desk 4 which is simple but powerful packs a ton of pixels but this one is special because this dream desk is mine hi Meredith yes how's it going good how are you I'm good sorry if this is super random oh yeah so back with dreamed us three I remember you tweeted and that kind of really stuck with me just I remember seeing that tweet about how your son woke you up to go watch the ps3 I'm building my desk right now so I kind of had the idea of surprising your son with a setup like mine oh man eat well sad yeah yeah oh this is so cool like how do I have white Michael when I saw this is and this be asked oh yeah I wish you had any idea how much fucking he was you have inspired so many best like changes and and you know just inspiration for him in general to continually try and redo what they are yet so this setup is centered around a 2016 15 inch MacBook Pro and LG's ultra fine 5k display being able to dock a macbook pro into a 5k display is something I've wanted for a really long time using a 5k iMac and then going back to a 4k display always felt like a bit of a downgrade so this gives me the best of both worlds now the desk itself funny enough is technically a dying table so if you walked into the office section IKEA you would never see it so what I happen to stumble upon it in the dining section I immediately fell in love it has a beautiful glossy reflective top tons of room for activities really well built legs that are classy but also let you do some serious wizardry with cable management now the MacBook Pro itself is the top spec i7 model with Radeon Pro 460 graphics in controversy and dongles aside performance for me has been fantastic the video you're watching right now is shot in red 6k raw and was edited entirely on this machine jumping back to the ultra fine 5k huge shout out to LG for not only sending this my way early but also sponsoring dream guys for it is a beautiful 5k display that connects through a single Thunderbolt 3 cable and on top of giving you dock functionality with three extra USB seaports it is also powering the MacBook Pro which is awesome small things like being able to control the brightness within Mac OS is a nice touch but more than anything it is a really impressive looking display if you've used or you're coming from a 5k iMac it is every bit as good and possibly a little better it's super bright has beautiful colors honestly so far I couldn't be happier with this combo now behind the monitor making everything look nice and pretty is the hue lightstrip plus from philips who are also awesome enough to sponsor us for getting to partner with philips has been one of the coolest experiences so far for me if you've watched any of my videos you know I love lights and there's something special about adding color to your setup especially your desk it kind of just gets your brain going and for me helps creatively now as far as the speakers I have been searching and looking for the perfect pair pretty much all year but finally I think I found them these are the atom Artists threes which look amazing and pack an incredible sound and a relatively small package they have a ton of inputs but also connect their USB which is super handy the four and a half inch carbon fiber Wolfer pumps out some pretty impressive low-end but we set up to me most was the high end I am not sure what kind of magic is going on here but these are some of the clearest speakers I've ever heard in my life being able to hear every instrument every nuance is Incred and then things like stereo link or a single control one speaker controls both of them is icing on the cake now to the right of the desk this is ela C bolt 3 which is a 2 terabyte Thunderbolt 3 external SSD with insane speeds inside are 2 1 terabyte m2 PCIe drives which pump out over 2,000 megabytes per second on the right side and over 2500 on the read so with this you're essentially getting the same performance of the MacBook Pro internally but on an external drive what's kind of cool is that it comes with a removable stand that attaches magnetically and also a magnetized cable door that pops open to plug things and encloses to keep things nice and tidy as far as the rest of the setup to keep things clean and to connect your Bluetooth I'm rocking the Apple wireless keyboard and the Logitech MX master I finally given up the performance MX and it seems like any problems or bugs I had with MX master before are gone and so far after this switch I am really enjoying this mouse rounded out the desk things would not be complete without the Tamas desk lamp which gives me some of that toy story Pixar action now that my setup is complete though it is time to hop on a plane and head to st. Louis so made it out to st. Louis holy balls is it cold my face is known but that is beside the point because it's now time to be Miss Meredith the mom let's go now because Meredith and her son were going to see family for the holidays the time frame was extremely narrow so what I did was overnight the computer the monitor the speakers the accessories from B&H and Amazon luckily they came through the only thing missing though was the most important part of the setup the desk itself so after we made sure everything else was there we headed out to Ikea I got to tell you guys Meredith is an incredible single mom the initial tweet of her being that involved with her son spoke volumes to me but getting a chance to hang out with there was a completely different level she battles vascular EDS and no joke just came off surgery this week instead of staying back resting she was right there with me at IKEA going to Lowe's to rent a truck in seeing how selfless she is and how much love she has for her son is incredible I you know that keeps me going my diseases second to the fact that I'm a mom and I make everything fit into the mom part first and you know I obviously do what I can to take care of myself but it's it's all secondary to being a mom you get inspiration from having a kid that that's unreal like I I didn't know what inspiration was until I had a kid to fight for you know it has kept me going when things were not looking great now to keep things a surprise she was able to work with her sister-in-law to keep her son distracted trying to do this in a single day may have been a little ambitious time was flying by but it was now time to build out the setup now for her son bebe there were four elements of my setup that I really wanted to bring to his the first of which being the same desk which we were able to find a 15-inch Space Gray MacBook Pro that he could dock into a monitor white speaker so he could get that really clean white stormtrooper look and most importantly I wanted to give him a splash of that TLD lighting which ended up working amazing because after talking to Meredith he had been wanting Phillips hue forever so it's the end of the day been battling the clock but somehow managed to pull everything off Meredith is on our way right now to pick up bebe who has no idea what is coming next my heart's like pounding how's it going dude hi nice to meet you nice to meet you too yeah um surprise uh yes sir you know seeing her say that like you clean your desk because of that yeah my videos was cool I was wrong of them that's so cool dude so I figured I was building my desk and let's make you a set up like mine I can't even say thank you enough uh-huh it just amazes me so much that you would actually think about that tweet and end up coming to my house and showing up with a amazing desk the experience of it I think was was a lot of fun you know I I knew you're gonna do something great for him but I didn't really think I'd take a part in it so it was neat to spend the day you know with with you and you know getting getting to meet you that was that's just great that's really cool this was a great way to spend a day he's happy he's so happy and surprised and I don't get to do that very often so I mean who gets to hang out with you know with somebody that they admire that much so to see him actually get to meet you in real life I think as awesome as the desk is just getting the hang with you is is probably what will stick with him for life good job all day all day every day every day he was on their block until we made a way later way dated a man