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so setup tours are among the most intriguing and interesting tech related videos on YouTube sometimes are called studio tours or tour of a geek setup or room or workspace or workstation there's even a subreddit that calls them battle stations whatever you want to call it it has a whole lot of popularity on YouTube last week there was a call for mini set up tours and dozens of you submitted videos of your own setups to be showcased here so welcome to the setup tour project 2012 we'll start with people who use their laptop and nothing else as our main machine hey guys what's up Josiah tech here and this is my desk now as you can see it's pretty small but I like it all my gadgets are right next to me and close and easily accessible within my reach and that's just a benefit I like from my desk I'd like to share with you some things about my setup this is my sony vaio laptop and it is resting on a M design rate instead I'm using a Apple wired keyboard we can even Mary keep it connected to it what's up with your body styles here and this is a mini tour of my setup it's pretty simple as you can see laptop over there on top of the box and it's pretty special about my setup is that I actually have another desk right behind me for studies and all of that what's going on guys my name is Tomas and during this video in response to mkbhd s request for rooms setups I hope you enjoy I done everything through text because I tried to keep it down to its time constraints thanks for watching and peace this is my super quick setup tour of my workspace over to the left I've got my laptop I've got a clock which turns into a energy meter I've got my tablet which is used for for things like homework while I enter into Evernote I've got my time tables quite a lot of my books I've got this little paper waiter says practice makes perfect what is up guys this is my setup right here phone tablet iPod laptop next onto the people who have a lot of pixels whether that's two displays or three or more as you can see there's an iMac here it's 27 inch quad core i7 with eight gigs of ram the mid 2010 model connected to that is my secondary display which is the frigate so me lobe XL 3 2 to 0t it's a really good gaming monitor as well as a secondary display currently I use a dual monitor setup this is my 13-inch MacBook Pro values for school and these are my Android powered devices Nexus 7 P 1000 and the white version of the Galaxy Nexus I use PC d50 sin Heiser's for headsets and a black widow for a keyboard and a Razer Mamba for mice what's up guys just on with JDK we here today I've got a quick death setup to earth first off its my macbook pro 13 inch early 2011 a 24 inch Acer s2 4 3hl LED monitor a 21 and a half inch asus monitor an Apple MacBook Air 11 inch late 2010 an iPhone 4 a blue yeti stereo microphone a Playstation 3 and also an Xbox 360 slim below you can see is my HP printer an Asus wireless access point and also a link sees gigabit ethernet switch what's up guys this is my little workstation the thing that stands out the most would probably be my custom-built PC with my dual monitors I'm not going to go into the specs because obviously don't have time another thing would probably my MacBook Pro which I can hook up to both of my monitors hi guys stay down here doing a little office tour walk the doors of my office and you come into the right and we've got a printer and some headphones and a guitar and a guitar amp and a custom desktop my father built for me on the floor is a Mac Pro that I use as a backup machine in the center is an iMac to the right of that is a MacBook Pro and the left of the iMac is another monitor that's hooked up to the iMac a couple of magic Mouse's with Magic Trackpad and that's it thanks guys so this is my submission hope I make it one thing I really like about my setup is when I'm editing you could see I have my TV mounted on the wall so I could watch TV while I'm editing in stuff my setup is really nice I have an iMac MacBook Pro and a monitor as you can see there's the microphone I'm using right now the blue snowball this is technology attics test setup well it's hard to fit everything within 20 seconds everything is powered by custom-built PC this includes the 323 inch monitors which are all running screen savers from really sleek calm and on the back they have Ikea LED diode which allows me to change the color there's an iPad 2 and a Dell XPS M 1330 and you can't forget the audio some of these guys coming up have some really interesting audio solutions hey guys my name is Andrew and this is my desk so I have a 15 inch retina MacBook Pro iPad 2 and this headphone stands I made myself it's just stained wood and painted PVC pipe with a hole drilled into the woods the pipe can go in and you can just hang your headphones on there just like that it's really nice looks great it's easy to make by yourself thanks welcome mkbhd fans here's my desk the reason I love my desk is because of how simple it is I barely have anything on it so it's very easy to work on it without feeling cluttered one of the unique things about my desk is my headphone holder may have two binder clips one with the two-inch long handle on just the small body it's a very easy hack to hold my really junky headphones anyway I love my desk and I hope you do too hey marques here's my setup tool video so here's my Mario oxygen 49 MIDI controller my macbook air 13-inch Traktor Kontrol s2 my 27 inch iMac with a black widow razor keyboard my audio interfaces are Native Instruments Komplete audio 6 is my e th and 15th row yet I'm a ps3 that's about it just make you up little work my desk setup I have for my dorm that I moved into about two weeks ago I have my two monitors separated there by my right speaker so my speakers will be equidistant from both of my ears and to save space on my desk up top I have my mic in camera and down below I have my sub as well as my tower and DAC hey friends this is a mini tour of my music production setup alright so first I've got to bed sheets on the wall to reduce audio reflections I've got my monitors on Stan's behind the desk to save space and improve sound my computer screen is on a shelf to save even more disk space I have extra disk space to the left and right of me for my mixing console and an extra keyboard and then my master keyboard my computer keyboard and pad controller right in front of me the rest of these submissions are notable setups that you can probably take something from and using your own hey everybody what's up it's Nick here and welcome to the setup project so here is my setup now I like to keep my desk kind of clean and free of clutter so the only things I have on it are my computer my headphones and my microphone and then behind me I have my bed with probably the ugliest comforter you've ever seen and this is where I just like to throw papers whenever I'm working on like school projects and stuff and then I like to keep my laptop back here whenever I need that and what setup would be complete without having some kickass decorations so I have my deaf Punk and deadmau5 posters so thank you for watching and good bye what's going on everyone it's your average consumer and although this is a bit of a smaller desk well I think is special about it is that everything is within reach for me I feel it really gives a boost in productivity I can have my work tools and my games all in one area I hope you guys enjoyed this quick tour of my workspace this is my set up tour definitely what makes it specials that I have basically a device from every platform and OS so from left to right we have a MacBook Pro with Retina display third generation iPad Motorola Xoom Windows Phone fourth generation iPod Touch 22 inch IPS monitor Galaxy Nexus HP Envy Nexus 7 and for what work it gets to be too much there's the ps3 and 360 hey guys what you're probably noticing right now I said I don't have any sort of computer or laptop that is because my iPad and Bluetooth keyboard is kind of like my computer and it pretty much handles all the things I want to do on it pretty well for example video editing on pinnacle studio and photo editing on Photoshop top so that's my desk thanks guys well guys this is my setup but I really want to show you guys this great highlight here I got a bunch of devices playing this video I want to check it out yeah it's pretty cool so oh I guess I'll have a link in the description to it yeah this is my video response to márquez's set up to her project 2012 I kind of got this idea from my boy JJ and root got the transformer prime HP TouchPad 23 inch monitor for editing videos dope premiere a soos g7 for xx laptop and several devices playing one video at the same time alright what's up guys is mkbhd and this is the last part of the set up tor project 2012 and which i'll give you a tour of my current setup so i'm recording with the Canon t2i here so the focusing is going to be manual so some stuff might be out of focus temporarily but I'll give you a good look at just about everything that I use here daily and like I said my desk doesn't really stay the same for too long but my setup is pretty consistent usually I'm one thing you notice there's a lot of stuff is really need that's just because I tend to be a neat person but I'm going to start all the way here on the left because a lot of setup tours do start here on the left and I'm not going to give a mini-review per se of everything in this setup but I will definitely give you guys names so if you want to look up things that are in the setup or that you see just type the name that I say into the YouTube search box and you'll be able to find this stuff and see if I've already done a video about it so right off the bat all the way on the left here is a disc this is not something to find a video on but this is the design for the school that I play for right now that I'm on their Ultimate Frisbee team so that's the disc and right here all the way on the left are these two storage bins and this is these is the place that I keep things that I don't necessarily need you know up here or on the desk all the time so in here you know it's printer paper for my printer right here I have the you know extra keyboard storage every geek has a cable collection I have cables right in that side part there you know extra things that I don't necessarily need all the time and you can also put stuff on top of that and on the left here that's also my internet suite so I'm moving along this is kind of like the main center piece this is the desk it's a Vika Alex and I did build this myself you know how to draw the holes for cable management which is below the desk which is why I don't really see a whole lot of cables especially when you're sitting down and you got these legs that attach to it here and the drawer system all go on the left and I guess I'll start up here with the router and this is my internet basically my internet hub which is nice that it's right next to where I sit when I'm at my desk so if anything goes wrong I can just look at the lights but this is the router this is the asus and 66u it's the Cubs nicknamed the dark knight router and it's it was rated I got it because it was rated basically the best router out there so when I was looking up a router to get for the apartment I decided on that one and there's my modem and my ISP gets me about 60 down 20 up so that's what I'm getting this on this left surface here is my tablet say hi this is the Asus Transformer Pad Infinity the TFC 700 1920 by 1200 display have done a review on that it is awesome and I use this basically for consuming media so I watch a lot of videos on it YouTube videos when I'm in other rooms in the apartment stuff like that and a lot of reading emails because the Gmail client is sweet so that is the tablet here and I guess I'll go down because down here are these drawers and these our school drawers so I have some organizers in here and I keep with a lot of stuff in here neat but I have pens I have microfiber I have cable to connect the cameras and flash drives some pencils now just getting out on these pencils tape measures and paperclips basically the top two drawers here are going to be organized stuff and then bow that I have notebooks and paper and my textbooks are behind me in the bookshelf so yeah and I guess we'll start moving further to the right here and by the way this guy is hook it up via ethernet to my desktop but we'll get to that in a second so this is the Ultrabook that I happen to use this is the asus zenbook prime ux31a also and a full aluminum body so the construction is really solid but this is my favorite I take notes on this machine when I bring it to class this is the only thing I've taken notes on so far is just that nice it's really lightweight performs well better than I really need it to has a really nice keyboard so and the trackpad is big I like it this is my favorite so you can check out my review on that but uh when this laptop isn't here this is where I put my notebooks to do homework so that's the section the homework section I just have notes data right up here is the blue spark microphone this is what I've been using for more than like the past year but it's a microphone that I used to record my videos with and when I want to bring it out and do a Google+ hangout or a live show or something like that I just pull it out it's long enough cable I can put it anywhere on my desk but put it right here on top of this lamp and that's the neat thing this is a lamp it's an LED light provides sort of this ambient backlighting so it's kind of shining up on the wall it gives a little halo effect but it also spreads light around the room so there is also two buttons on here to raise or lower the levels but I do like this lamp a lot so I want to favorite pieces of I guess furniture maybe ha ha ha then there's the studio monitors a lot of people like their sound we went over those sound setups a little bit earlier in this video but these are these are Aiki audio m5o 5v2 studio monitors they are amazing sounding I'm almost hesitant to try anything else because I'm afraid I won't like the way they sound compared to these these just sounds so good right here we have a five inch woofer and a one-inch tweeter excellent sound for the price amazing sound for the this size the compact size of these cabinets and they're sitting on these foam isolation pads from Editors keys I have not reviewed those but they are really helpful useful because they reduce any sort of vibration on the desk in fact there's zero vibration of anything it's just pure sound so that's that's a pretty neat feature that's why I have those isolation pads and they Cana you might notice your when you're sitting in the middle of a both point towards your ears I used to have them facing straight out but I find that a it's really important to have them facing you for the best quality sound so they're kind of inverted towards me a little bit and that's the way they've set up and I guess we're getting to the Beast here now this is the the single monitor setup that I'm currently using now I've mentioned this before but my setup rarely stays the same I'm considering a second monitor actually for my setup but probably a second 30-inch monitor but this here is a dell ultrasharp of 3000 7fp say 2560 by 1600 monitor and with a logitech c910 webcam up top this is easily my favorite monitor I've ever used I love the 1600 vertical pixels and it's connected to the boss down here and that is the Mac Pro now I guess I'll do this first this is the desktop which you guys are probably guessed about by now I've moved past the Mac Mini I'm aware that there's a new Mac Pro coming out soon but this will hold me over this is the 2012 3.33 gigahertz six core Mac Pro and basically the only things I bought from Apple were the Mac itself and the upgraded 5870 graphics card everything else I bought an SSD a 512 gigas SD now for myself and also 16 gigs of ram I did not buy those things from Apple I bought them from third parties so that's kind of running the show right now and that's a blue lounge cable box which keeps the cables tidy so I don't have to look at some crazy cable mess there's a woods in there everything like that so then there's the way you control your computer and usually my phone is either on my desk or in my pocket when I sit down I just kind of put it on my desk and this is that's the Samsung Galaxy s3 and it's running Sanna jin mod 10 on it it's getting a full full day of battery really I haven't had any battery issues as long as I've had this ROM so really impressive rum and then I'm using the Apple keyboard and trackpad and the cyborg rat 9 Mouse now a lot of people would say this is a little bit of a weird setup but I really only have the trackpad there for Mission Control so I have spaces I have three different spaces open pretty much always for the same purposes and that's what I use the trackpad for I like a chiclet style keyboard matches the monitor you can see the aluminum going on I like it anyway I can't really recommend the cyborg rat 9 for everyone it is a great mouse for me and I had to get I look like the wireless version because it's so far from the desktop but I gotta say the battery life this is not a joke and this is not a defect it lasts one day on battery okay so all the batteries there's there's one battery in the mouse and there's one battery up here this is the charger it's green for go like it's it's on and you can see when I move it the thing blinks but basically the battery dives just about at the end of every day so at the beginning of a new day you take the new battery out put it in take the old battery out put it in charge and you asked about one day on battery with this guy but anyway I'm gonna go ahead and show you that's the controller setup it's also a little bit of a mouse pad here there's the other right-hand studio monitor from Ikea do and right here is the two laptop chargers for different laptops I use one of them is sittin right there and the other one is in my closet it's a fatty but that's my uh the school provided laptop which isn't the best which is why I got that and then there is breakfast of champions just give that a second there yeah there it is breakfast of champions here's the Nexus 7 one of my favorite tablets out there but I don't use it all that often because is I use the pad infinity a lot and this is just kind of for having a nexus I mean I like the fact that this infinity runs stock Android but this guy right here is a pretty solid I think it's off right now actually yeah it's running stock Android and I just use it for the app so a lot of the apps experience is really nice but seven inch form factor is cool but that's basically everything under here you can see Andy just kind of chillin with the cyborg a charger thing and if you want to look at it to my doc there you go that's what's open right now anyway and there it is that's my wallpaper I have a wallpapers album in Google+ so if you want to check that out my Google+ length is always in the description of my videos so I wallpaper album up there and that's basically it so if you have any questions obviously feel free to post them down below we can discuss this we can discuss why I haven't gotten a freaking second monitor for this yet which second monitor I should get should I get another one of these probably will end up getting out of one of these to have them identical but yeah that's basically it for my current set up so if you like this sort of a setup tour project idea definitely be sure to leave a thumbs up on this video and if this is a good enough project for you guys I will probably be doing this sort of project I get every year though it takes a long time to compile and download all these videos to give you guys all your shout outs but there you go this has been the mkbhd setup tour project 2012 thank you for watching and I'll talk to you guys in peace you