It has been a while since I posted my work battlestation. This is my setup in my teaching laboratory, and it continues to delight me and my students, and baffle most of my colleagues!
The desk is a standing desk, with some flexispot legs fitted to my old desktop. The centrepiece is an iiyama 34 inch monitor, flanked by two 24 inchers. The right hand one is hardware mirrored to the 80-inch display screen for my class, so I can know when I am presenting things that I am not going to accidentally flash my work emails (or my ebay shopping) to the class. I am definitely a "more is better" guy when it comes to monitors, but this is enough real-estate to be going on with, without needing to open the laptop screen too… for now (it’s also the limit of what my graphics can support!). Shown on the screens (rather than my actual emails etc.) is what I actually use the screens for, day-to-day. The iPad under the main monitor is being used as a digital photo frame, and scrolls through a whole load of pictures of my kids.
Speakers are the Q acoustic 2010, which are pretty good for their size, but benefit from some eq boosting to the bass from the amplifier (Loxjie A30). I have recently swapped their positions vertically with the outer monitors, partly as this is a teaching laboratory, and I was a little "penned in" in the corner by ALL OF THE MONITOR, but the secondary effect is that the speakers raised to ear-level sound massively better than they did even angled up from desk height. I kept on reading that this would be the case, without really believing it. I am now a believer. There is also a hidden speaker switchbox, that flicks the output to some big floorstanders in the corners of the room, which provide stereo sound for when the class are watching a video.
Keyboard is my own design (Helvellyn) and the macropad is a pcb based on Joe Scotto's Scotto9. I also have a random old numpad (TH21), as I clearly haven't fully embraced the minimalist keyboard ideals… Trackball is the Ploopy Adept; which I have “anyball” modded, with BTU’s and a snooker cue ball as the ball.
Lighting is (in addition to the room lights) a couple of lamps, and a quntis light bar, which I was sceptical about, but is actually really nice. When I am at my desk really early, I can just have the desk lighting on, and it is like I am in a little "pod" to get my work done.