What’s better than having two MacBook Pro laptops in your computer setup? Having the two powerful machines wrapped in cool-looking skins that confound and excite onlookers, of course.
Such is the case with today’s dual-MacBook Pro, dual LG-display workstation that the user depends on for coding and videoconferencing.
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Coder runs dual MacBook Pros and dual LG displays
Coder and Redditor FX2000 showed off the productive-looking setup in a post entitled, “Coding / Video Conferencing setup.”
“Very slick looking,” noted a commenter. “What are those items to the left of the desk?”
“Macbook Pro 16 and Macbook Pro 14 powering the setup, they have a dbrand teardown skin on,” FX explained.
In other words, “those items” are only the computer setup’s computers. But the skins make them look like anything but normal MacBooks.
“Haha, I thought you were running them open cased!” the commenter replied.
“Me too,” said another person. “Like what coding has your machines getting that hot?!”
As if FX needed to modify the laptops’ cases to dissipate massive amounts of heat (not recommended). That didn’t turn out to be the case, of course. FX just likes the cool-looking dbrand Teardown Skins that appear to reveal the machine’s guts without actually doing so.
Why not use a display in portrait mode?
Photo: FX2000@Reddit.com
And then another coding-related topic came up regarding FX’s two stacked landscape-mode displays. A 34-inch LG UHD (3840 x 2160p) VA monitor sits on top of a 49-inch DQHD (5120 x 1440p) curved ultra-wide IPS display.
A commenter suggested, somewhat dismissively, that FX would “want a vertical screen for coding, wouldn’t you.”
But FX wasn’t having it.
“I’m sure some people do,” he replied. “I prefer having horizontal space so I can see multiple things at the same time. When I’m coding I usually have reference material on the top (Figma designs, specs, docs, etc.) and VS Code running 2/3 on the bottom with a preview browser running on the remaining 1/3.”
Another person wondered about the top monitor’s ergonomics, asking if FX’s neck gets tired from looking up.
“It’s tilted down and I don’t use it all the time, I mostly park stuff up there that I only need to look at occasionally,” FX said.
What’s with all that acoustic paneling on the wall?
Photo: FX2000@Reddit.com
FX indicates in his post title he uses the setup for videoconferencing as well as coding. And you can see a Elgato Facecam perched on the wide display and a Blue Yeti USB microphone on a stand to the right in the photograph. There also a Elgato Stream Deck + audio mixer and production console on the desk.
But does that justify an entire wall covered in acoustic panels?
“All that acoustic paneling is overkill,” a commenter noted. Another made a coding joke: “What’s with the acoustic foam? Is it so you can scream when it doesn’t compile?”
But neither the setup nor FX’s response indicate the panels are even for dampening sound.
“It was cheap and I hated that wall,” he said.
Shop these items now:
Computers:
Displays and webcam:
Input devices and desk mat:
Audio-visual:
- Blue Yeti USB microphone
- Microphone boom arm/stand
- Elgato Stream Deck + production console
- Ring light with stand
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