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Weekend Review: This week's rigs
Each week, we recap the Rigs of the Day that have graced our pages over the past seven days, and crown a "Rig of the Week." Here is the current entry.Reader *nathan asks, "Where did the computer go?" Let's hope he got that thing back together. jasonsewell wow'd us with the 50" TV connected to his Mac mini running FrontRow. His set up makes the TV I won in college in 1989 seem even more pathetic.* In fact, we were so stunned by jasonsewell's set up, what we went on a bit of a multimedia rig frenzy. Reader ICULOOKN had a similar arrangement, with the clever addition of an iSight camera, and beenester decided to use a G5 Powermac as his multimedia Mac. Very cool.
OndraSoukup believes in raising Mac addicts from the start, and Zennifer attached a swivel arm to the back of her G5 iMac for a very cool floating effect.
So which is the Rig of the Week? We've got to go with Zennifer's floating iMac. Sure, the swivel arm is kind of bulky, but you won't see it while working. We really like it. Well done!
If you'd like to see your own rig featured here, simply upload photos into our group Flickr pool. We select one image to highlight each day, and crown a Rig of the Week on Sundays.
*Yes, I still use a TV I got in college in 1989 as my primary TV. It's sad.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Julia said 12:21PM on 5-28-2006
This whole rig thing is getting so boring ... who's got the biggest one? And now there's even a weekly sum-up.. I know it's sunday, but don't you have other news worth posting?
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B said 12:51PM on 5-28-2006
hmm, i wonder if there's ever been a swivel-screen imac before...nope, i guess apple never thought of that...oh wait, the G4 imac...
all she did was chop off the metal stand and attach it to...another metal stand...way to go zennifer
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Jarett Weintraub said 2:05PM on 5-28-2006
Yeah, and? It's the rig of the week, dude, not the Nobel Prize. It looks cool, and it's useful, and it's precisely *because* it was done on the G4 and not the new iMacs that it's so great.
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isecore said 2:40PM on 5-28-2006
I actually like the Swivelmac-idea.
The stand that comes with it is okay, but I like the idea of a "floating" Mac and being able to put papers and other stuff underneath it as well as being able to easily push it aside when I want to use the entire desk for something.
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Zennifer said 2:07PM on 5-29-2006
Take another look at my flickr set. I posted more images that show the true usefulness of the swing arm.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/81451441@N00/155705087/
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