Building the ULTIMATE Apple Silicon desk setup
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- Опубликовано: 21 дек 2023
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Since I moved across the country, I felt it would only make sense to completely revamp my Apple silicon desk setup for video editing! So today we're going to build out what I think is the ultimate desk tour, complete with dual monitors, podcasting equipment and bookshelf speakers!
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I like a dual monitor setup, but can't stand having the split between the two directly in front of me. I moved to having one monitor straight ahead with the second off to the side in portrait mode. I feel like a single ultrawide would be a better solution, but they are expensive for a 2160p model.
Or you can have two stacked 49”ultra wides. That gives you a lot of screen real estate.
Just to mention Luke , you should screw the countertop to the two pedestals . There's going to be a lot of weight on it , and it may sag downwards . By putting 4 screws from inside the pedestals upwards into the top, it will keep the top a lot straighter . Although , now that i see the finished product , you may not need to screw the top . But if it was screwed , you could slide it around a lot easier .
Yes, please show us how you upgrade your Mac Pro! You also mentioned an "el gato capture card" and "road caster." Since I do no audio/video editing, would also appreciate you explaining what these are as well as their pros and cons! Thanks, Luke. Keep up the great work!
A “capture card” allows you to record footage from an exterior source to a computer. It’s mostly used for video gaming, so you can record or stream gameplay. Elgato is the main brand in the space
The rodecaster is a hardware audio interface with faders for microphones and other various audio sources.
Elgato and RØDE are brands that make these products.
Thank you!@@colemowery
The rodecaster is an audio interface, it takes the analogue signal from the microphone and turns it into 1's and 0's the computer can read. I believe the roadcaster has many channels as well so you can have multiple microphones
I’ve been transitioning my windows setup to an apple silicon setup. It’s going great. Love your setup!!!!
My new desk is your old one from wayfair 😂
You really might want to raise the speakers. Having the tweeters at ear height would be ideal. Given the width of the two monitors there'll be no way to get them closer to each other. For optimum stereo reproduction you and the two speakers should be at the three corners of an equilateral triangle. With the current set-up there will probably be an acoustic 'hole' in the centre.
Using a kitchen counter top is always a good idea. I've had mine for well over ten years now, spent many hours in front of it, and it still looks great.
Agreed on both points. Better still would not to have speakers in boxes but to cut holes through the wall and mount concentric drivers flush. The neighbours may not be too happy though.
It’s a good day when Luke Miani uploads a new video
Looks good! I am really curious to see the Mac Pro get kitted out, can’t wait to see it!
I did the same thing for my desk upgrade. I ended up building a hutch for it using two Ikea bookshelves and some black veneer 5/8" melamine panels for backing to add a tv to. Still need to build out the overhead lighting, doing that with some xmas cash.
My desk is a beast, Ikea cabinets and massive tabletop. Best way to go
Yes to the Mac Pro upgrade video. It might help in seeing why it even exists.
Nice. When I was working from home in computer biz I had an dining room table that wasn't be use and I used it. It was perfect because dining room table are very deep compared to regular desks. It was about the same width as your desk so lots of space. Then I had one set of drawers like your using. What I like about the dining room table is how deep it was so I could keep the monitor back and have lots of deskspace for keyboards and other things. Last dining room tables can be easily found from new to used at a big variety of prices.
Looks great! Consider putting your wires coming out of the monitors in a loom each to clean up the look just a bit more.
My main display is the LG 42" OLED C2 display, then i use two 32" displays on each side, in vertical mode. It creates a giant canvas.
as someone who started watching in like 2019, nothing beats that old duel iMac set up.
Yeah I also thought of that
I still have a bit 23” Apple Cinema HD Display from 2002 as the main monitor in my home office setup. It holds up really well. Paired with some Soundsticks, it’s amazing how well it all holds up in 2023!
Hopefully I can share this video with my roommate this weekend. Great video 🎉
Amazing setup love it!
Yes to the kit-out. Room’s turning out nice man. We miss ya in DC though.
Excellent setup. I am excited for the new year with viewing your new content of 2024.
The primary advantage of the studio display (for me) is the built in speakers. I really enjoy not having any clunky speakers or extra cables on my desk and the quality is quite nice.
And retina 5K on a 27” is perfect 1:1
Love this! Let's go!
Great setup Luke, can you please make a video upgrading the Mac Pro and how your utilising it?
Slick setup, dude!
Awesome video Luke! I’ve really been wanting to see your maxed-out Mac Pro video
Also I just want to say I really like your choice of background music, in basically all your vids. Especially the second one here, Way of The Walk by Dusty Decks, is my all-time favorite background music to use when I’m editing family movies in iMovie. I’ve probably overused it by now but I love it! I think you and I have very similar music tastes. 😁
New set up looks amazing 🤩 I would just paint the bottom black it’s so far from view that you wouldn’t notice the difference 👌🏽
VERY NICE SETUP...BENQ IS VERY INNOVATIVE!!!
I don’t understand how you can claim the 5K Studio Display isn’t good enough and then replace them with 4K monitors?? If you got them for free then that’s one thing but don’t try to tell us that they’re better.
He wants a 32 not a 27. Besides it’s not about the resolution 4k is far enough for a 32 inch screen. 4k vs 5k is little difference but 27 to 32 inch is big difference….
Nicely Done !
i give your new setup (without the cold blue floor light) 10/10 luke! very tasteful!!
That's a sweet setup. I especially like those BenQ monitors, I'm very tempted to get one for myself. The Apple Studio display is way out of my budget.
I have the exact same Alex draws from Ikea for my desk setup! 10/10 would recommend. Great video :D Makes me want to revamp my setup haha
I use a 32inch dell 4k monitor, I love it for design work. 144hz is also lovely when scrolling around in figma
Great video and yes to the Mac Pro kit out!
Your new setup looks very good, just the right combination of utility and aesthetic. Once you’ve fully acclimatised yourself I can’t wait to see you road tripping up to Cupertino to trawl the thrift shops and bring back more Apple oddities. Happy holiday season.
I think it's really clever how you put this desk together. I would have never thought to use butcher block for the desktop but it looks awesome and at the same time highly functional. Looking forward to your future videos. Happy Holidays my friend!
This is what is popularly known as the "Ikea Desk Hack." Many people use the Karlby counter top. I got the Karlby myself and I like it a lot. The other part is the Alex drawer sets, available in black, white, and the turquoise-green shown in the video. I also opted for the turquoise-green. The Alex drawers are pretty nice.
I built a similar desk back in 1979. I used standard office file cabinets though, so Pendaflex size on the left and 2 desk drawers on the right and one Pendaflex-size. I still use this today. The setup supports my full weight so I can sit or stand on it or put a hundred points of stuff on it.
Doing the speakers is tricky with monitors. Sometimes the wire from one speaker to the other is on the short side so it can be difficult to put it on the sides of 2 monitors. I have 4 27 inch monitors on my primary desk so I just have my speakers on 1 monitor.
I built a similar setup as his with metal file cabinets from Target recently. Works great!
I have a IKEA Alex desk myself. It’s a great desk with two drawers and space in the back for cable management.
Nice setup Luke. Maybe the speakers on wall mounts and a desk shelf (Balolo) for a cleaner an warmer feeling. Greetings from The Netherlands.
I have the same cable management shelfs on all my desks. They are amazingly simple
I had a 32 INCH dual monitor setup mainly to watch streaming TV while doing my normal thing on the 2nd Monitor. Both were 1080p so not to use for any real editing. Now I'm on my MacBook Air with the 32" as the Streaming Monitor. Smaller but keeping up well.
Awesome set up for office 🎉
Audio nerds (like me 😊) be mindful, there will be A LOT of reflections on a massive tabletop surface like this.
If you need to do audio or mixing, the smallest flat surfaces possible are best! Putting speakers on stands next to desk, even better
He could've better used floor standing speakers with a more then 30º toe in.
In most cases that would've sound way better.
I would definitely change that mouse for a Magic Trackpad
You should have kept the Studio Monitor so you you can zoom and add one Ben q. Its so nice to have that built in.
As for.a longer term desk solution, I highly recommend the giant L-shaped (7feet wide, 4 feet on the other side) AutonomousAI desk that also has standing capability. huge surface for both lots of creative tech AND space on the side for "lab projects"
Looking forward to seeing what you do to your Mac Pro as Mac Studio/Mini tend to get recommended instead.
I am glad I watched ur video back then. It was about BenQ EX2780Q.
REALLY A GREAT SCREEN FOR THE MONEY. I love it so much. Speakers are decent, 144Hz is a pleasure to look at and colors amazing. And I really like its frame color. No silver no black. Just a nice “copperish” tone.
BenQ screens suffer from bleed but nothing I wont overcome.
Hello Luke! Enjoyed the video. Would love to see the Mac Pro upgrading video! 😊
For a monitor I use the LG OLED 42" C2 television as a monitor. Works beautifully. It's the perfect compromise of size of display and viewing angle distance. I don't like the Ultra-wide monitors because they compromise on pixel height and cause everything to feel "smashed" vertically. Buthaving a 4k display that CAN run 5k like the LG42" is a big but NOT TOO BIG Oled. It's great. I use it both for my 2009 Mac Pro setup, that still runs great - THANK YOU btw for your video on the 4,1 & 5,1... and I use it for my 2023 M2 Max Macbook Pro.
This is amazing. I’m also building my perfect home office for content creation!
Looks good. Edifiers are a little meh, but i am biased because i started on those and moved on to Audio Engine HD
While physically bigger that BenQ monitor is less resolution than the Apple Studio Display...
I see you went with the popular IKEA hack desk. I've been wanting to do that as well, but for what I want to do, I'd need more space, so would need to move to make it happen.
Huge yes on the Mac Pro video 😎
Two (2) 32" 4K monitors is great! Exactly the same setup I have.
Did you try running each monitor at native 4K resolution at 3840x2160? If yes, was the text and other items too small? Certainly, if pixel doubling was used with effective display resolution of 1920x1080 as specified in the display setup in MacOS, the text would appear way too large.
yes I would like to see a fully kit out Mac Pro. thanks
Awesome!! Just talked to my husband and we're going to do the same setup. I need a 3-screen setup due to my work, but definitely going to get the 27-inch BenQ monitors. I've been looking for the best monitors for the new Mac Mini and the BenQ will do for sure. Keep doing what you are doing!!
I went with metal file cabinets from Target for mine. Just another option to consider.
Bro i remember watching your videos when you literally first started. Knew you’d make it happen eventually. Good stuff
Decouple the speakers from the desk and get them on isolated stands.
Get SoundID from Sonarworks and flatten the response curve of them relative to the room.
Those 2 changes alone will drastically improve your audio editing to be more precise.
luv ur content
Thank you, for posting this new desk set-up video inside of your new Los Angeles apartment. Also, you forgot to mention for people living outside of Southern California that, today it is sunny and 70 degrees. Wow, two (2)- 4K monitors that are 32-inch each is really a lot of screen space. Since, I prefer to have only one monitor would just buy Apple's 32-inch 6K XDR display. Also, to make your desktop complete you have to add an Apple "space gray" track pad just as, I have done to the left of your keyboard (smile...smile).
Luke get Iso Acoustics stands for those Edifiers. They will improve the sound quality.
Approved 💯
I like it 🖥 🖥
Only thing is maybe having elevation legs so you can also use it while standing up but you do have other spaces you could move to if it is to stale to sit in that office chair. Those legs might also take too much space so you don't have space for those drawers under the desk and it might make cabling a nightmare because of the extra length needed.
I actually bought a 32" 4K monitor as well for my Mac Studio. They're actually pretty nice, though not quite as nice as the 5K display. That said, I can buy 4 of these displays for the cost of 1 studio display. Nuts. Nice setup!
Looks amazing!!! Where did you get the edision desk lights?
Yeah, I want to see a video about maxing up to the Mac Pro.
YES make a video about optimising the Mac Pro 👍
really nice setup . but for dual monitor i have two 32 inch but they are staked on top of each other cause i found myself moving my head right and left so far
What have you done with the great desk that move upside down to work standing?
Whilst most would express discontent of the notion of new content, I am content. Bring it on! And please feel free to collaborate more on video with Noah Rubin. I love his filter-less approach.
Please tell me where you bought that shelf
I`d love to see that Mac Pro upgrade vid!
I missed your move video.
I hope you explain the reason for the move.
When will we get the first Ambilight iMac or do I have to build one with 2005 white imac
yesss do the Mac Pro vid!
Yes make a video how you upgrade the Mac Pro!
Great vid , btw How’s your experience with Mac external screen scaling ?
Looks awesome with the dual monitor set-up. My only concern is that you will sit too close to the monitors. I would have gone for a deeper 30-32 inch (80cm) deep desktop. What do you think?
I initially had the same thought. The IKEA counter tops come in a standard width of 24". You can find butcher block tops in more sizes at Lowes and Home Depot but they are quite a bit more expensive. I went with the Karlby because it was less expensive and was actually in stock. The 24" depth has not bothered me.
The value of having PCIe as a creator is hardly understood by most people. From internal SSD Raid's to the higher end Blackmagic cards, to fiber networking, etc. Kudos on getting the Mac Pro. Please do a video!
yes to the video of the building out the Mac Pro, please
Sorry. But 4K on MacOS? First it renders to 5K and later scaled back to 4K. It’s a big no for me.
Why do you go low res on the monitors?
Awesome
I’m just wondering, what happened to your iMac Pro
What's that LED strip you got on the floor there at 2:26 ? I'm looking for something like that. It seems like it's covered with a diffusor so you don't see the individual leds.
Any alternative to the Apple Sutdio Didplay to use as a 2nd monitor for an imac?
Good regards for a new start Sir :)
What is the model of the BenQ Monitors you got Luke??
Hey Luke,
Did you buy those 32" monitors or is this another add?
I didn't see a disclaimer.
It’s good idea and better design continuo to the best
Very very curious: Why would you move to California in this day and age? (Honest question)
The other nice thing about the studio display is the built in speakers. Keeps the desk cleaner. (I personally love my Studio Display)
I love the setup. That lamp looks interesting. It's TVÄRHAND from Ikea with a different light bulb? Can you link the bulb ? :)
Dude really said “unconventional” to his desk setup when everyone and their mom have the ikea hack desk 😂
You need to go into System Settings and disable putting the hard disks to sleep to save power. It's an optimization DJs use
I am very sensible of what you done to let live again machines! I am as you with not liking destructing machines for nothing. As I described previously, cut I electrinic components at about 8 years old of an tuner when my parents decided to put in trash. I didn't understand why put in trash some electronics components if some where working inside. I made some kits and calculated how much it could cost if I should buy them seperatly. Doing calculation one day! Thanks for your green and economical attitude with electronic!
Yep, would love to see the Mac Pro video
Can you do a Apple Product tier list of 2023?
entire video on upgrading mac pro to the max!!!
Never seen anyone voluntarily move to California. Actually insane.