Gallery: A Cool Dozen Cult of Mac Fan Workspaces

11:59 pm, November 1st, 2009, Lonnie Lazar

Moving closer to the more simple end of the set-up spectrum, William Lockie’s whole family gets it done from this neat and tidy workspace: his MacBookPro and iPhone, his mum’s lamp iMac and his dad’s iMac 24 and iPhone. He says, “We’re die-hard apple fans!”

There’s no more here than a last generation Mac mini with Belkin Companion and iPod, but we love Ap May’s simple, clean, inviting workspace.

Andrew MacDonald has an impressively minimalist approach, too, with a 24″ iMac, his Macbook and his iPhone 3GS.

We’d be remiss in failing to thank Aurélian Lewin for giving us a look at his groovy lava lamp and the killer wallpaper he’s got on the 17″ MacBook Pro, would we not?

Jan-Peter Herberger’s desk is made of black MDF — it’s 5 meters long and hollow where all cables are drawn… making this a lovely minimalist partners’ workstation with what looks like a 24″ iMac and a 15″ MacBook. Nice.

We featured our friend Bob Eckstein’s workspace a while back in a piece on Steampunk. The New York-based cartoonist is hard at work on a graphic novel about 19th century British whalers, so he covered all his Apple gear in scraps of driftwood and transformed his office into something resembling the Captain’s Quarters of an 19th century whaling ship. Aargh, matey!

Speaking of office transformations, we leave you with Damian Rintelman’s ‘office of the future,’ which is actually the result of a prank played on him by co-workers. Somewhere underneath all that foil is a 15″ MacBook Pro, multiple external hard drives, two LCD monitors, keyboards, and more.

Remember these are just a dozen of over 90 workspace photos submitted by fans of Cult of Mac and tomorrow’s Magic Mouse winner may not be one of these. Check out the Facebook fan page, become a fan, and submit your own workspace photo or other cool Apple-oriented shots and you may find it featured in a blog post down the road.

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15 comments

This is fugly, at least hide your cables and throw away useless old computers.

CM, on November 2nd, 2009 at 1:25 am

yea i could of had wasted money/light on connecting my 20 old monitors so that my workspace looked good, but i decided to take a simple picture. failed.

i imagine my workspace of the future. uuu, damn i wanna grow 10 years know!.

Edgar, on November 2nd, 2009 at 1:41 am

I always think its funny when people show off their three monitors, this is what have deal with at work

From work

Alex, on November 2nd, 2009 at 1:45 am

I don’t have a Facebook account, but I sure wish I could have posted my workspace pics… Is there any way to email them in CoM?

Joe, on November 2nd, 2009 at 2:45 am

Wow some commentators are real whingers. Thanks for sharing everyone who sent a pic in.

saman Jebeli-Javan, on November 2nd, 2009 at 3:23 am

Thanks for posting my pic as part of the cool dozen work spaces… My three monitors are for the editing computer, with the big 24 inch monitor on the right being the client view one… when not hosting clients i use that monitor as a second screen for the macbook pro…

Liked seeing what every one else works with this was a fun thing to follow thus far seeing all us mac fans out there and how we use our machines.

Cheers

Christian Henning

Christian, on November 2nd, 2009 at 3:48 am

“Christian Henning has a tidy editing suite running a G5 MacPro …” Probably you mean a PowerMac G5 !

Al, on November 2nd, 2009 at 6:07 am

surely by def on CoM you cannot be cool with non-Apple products?

ged, on November 2nd, 2009 at 7:12 am

on page one you have a typo. G5’s weren’t called mac pros, just PowerMac G5’s. Kinda surprised that such a mac focused blog doesn’t know this….

Jon, on November 2nd, 2009 at 7:39 am

It’s nice to see Mac setups that aren’t completely barren and cold! I, however, prefer them that way. It’s just a nice change to see some atypical workspaces that look more lived in.

Mandy, on November 2nd, 2009 at 10:22 am

@Al @Jon – thanks for the catch on the mis-ID of Christian’s PowerMac; what I get for writing this late at night.

Lonnie Lazar, on November 2nd, 2009 at 12:23 pm

Thanks for choosing my space and I do graphic design, video editing, photography, stage design, website and IT support for a private school. the reasons for the 6 screens and would love to have a couple more…need the screen space and the mouse…..hihihihi

Nils Bertrand, on November 2nd, 2009 at 2:43 pm

Thanks for posting my office. I swear that I am a mac geek it’s just all that silly tinfoil was everywhere.

Damian Rintelmann, on November 2nd, 2009 at 3:12 pm

Thanks for featuring my workspace on here. I sure hope i win the mouse, i was in town today and can find nobody with any stock

Andrew Macdonald, on November 2nd, 2009 at 3:48 pm

Sean Caine here… Thanks for the feature – I’m flattered. That would be my HOME office in Miami, my New York one is tiny and ugly. My “office office” would be my iPhone… ofcourse.

SxCAINE, on November 2nd, 2009 at 7:13 pm