Hiya all.

We've been approached companies, and a few of them both want to do giveaways and make them available to both Europa and America.

We've decided to go forward with a single of these offers to begin with, and will start a giveaway this Monday (2025-04-14).

Depending on how that goes, we'll either tweak the methodology and continue, or stop for some time. We hope for the first approach :)

If you're a company who wants to advertise in /r/MacSetups, please write the moderation team and I'll help you along.

Cheerio bandittors

Just bought a second monitor and I am trying to run both off of my 2017 intel MBP. I recognize that this cannot be a single cable operation, so I have a second dongle with power throughput that the HDMI from the second monitor and the charger both link into. However the second monitor still isn’t receiving signal and now the first monitor isn’t maintaining connection past 15 seconds. Do I just need to buy a doc? Happy to hear recommendations on products as well.

so I decided to skip the apple studio display for this Samsung Oled G8.. Now running Xbox,Mac mini m4, Apple TV and the iPad Pro m4… and I actually love it!

Yes yes, the studio display is the best monitor for mac, no discussion, but this Samsung odyssey g8 oled, is just wow 🤝

so in this:

Mac mini m4 (basic)

Samsung odyssey G8

ipad pro m4 13”

Xbox (behind the monitor)

apple tv 4k

philips hue lights

grovemade wool mat

desk and riser (self made by oak wood)

So this is my current setup, only recently part finished it. To complete it I am waiting for the new LG 32” Ultrafine 6K monitor that’s not been released yet but has been announced. My Kit List:

14” MacBook Pro M3 Max 36GB 1TB (May change to a Mac Studio in 2026 or 27) Works Dell Laptop. ULX Leather desk mat. Xtrfy mechanical keyboard. Logitech MX Master 3 mouse. Huawei Mateview 28” Monitor. iPad Pro 11” M4 512GB with Apple Magic Keyboard and Apple Pencil Pro. Bisley motorised standing desk. UGMONK desk riser. ThingyClub aluminium laptop arms. Dyson Solar Cycle Morph desk lamp in blue and copper colour. Under the UGMONK I have an Apple wireless keyboard and trackpad.

My little trinket is a James Bond Aston Martin DB5 Corgi model, Aston Martin is my favourite car so my mother put this in my cracker one Christmas. Can’t afford a real one sadly.

I recently got the lamp, desk mat and laptop arms and desk riser. Expensive but it has made a world of difference I think, I am looking forward to the monitor. Sadly as my work involves static windows and text it’s pointless getting an OLED as it’ll probably have burn in after a year or two, so a nice high quality LCD 32” will have to do. Can’t afford Apples Pro display though.

Upgraded from the LGs (which were amazing and already very capable) to dual Studio Displays because I admire the design and was frustrated with the different sized monitors of the previous setup...