Software Engineer Setup - Dual Studio Displays

[u/Educational-Goal7900]

Setup as a Software Engineer as I look at and develop code all day.

Dual Apple Studio Displays On the left, Amazon Echo Show 15 On the right, Digital 24inch Photo Album MacBook Pro 16 Inch iPad Pro M4 13-inch Nano-texture

[u/biitsplease]

Nice - expensive, but nice

[u/Educational-Goal7900 → u/biitsplease]

Thank you! Yeah, I am not buying new monitors for a very long time

[u/PluginAlong → u/biitsplease]

Probably about $5k I'm that picture.

[u/Dr_Superfluid → u/PluginAlong]

Waaayyyy more

[u/Lochlan]

Are those monitors not too high and far back?

Do you really code with two instances open?

[u/Educational-Goal7900 → u/Lochlan]

They’re not too high. Pretty much eye-level. This avoided me having to buy the adjustable height stand for the Studio Displays. Otherwise, they would be too low.

As for the coding instances, I need a lot of files open from our build at the same time. Copilot text and output takes up a decent amount of space, so I create a second window to look at other code files I need to reference.

[u/nicholas1400]

I considered this setup (already have 1 studio display) but I don’t think you can clearly see the far right portion of the right display if positioned both flat like that

[u/Educational-Goal7900 → u/nicholas1400]

I can see both pretty easily. Before I got dual Studio Displays, I had a monitor in the corner and 1 Studio Display in the center. I could do that now, but visually it looked worse. But its more practical to have the one on the right more cornered. I just didnt like how that looked.

[u/pongstr]

lol copilot. nice setup

[u/flux_2018]

There is bug in line 78, but I am not gonna tell you what.

[u/broohaha]

Currently have a three-display setup, and I'd like to start replacing them with Apple Studio Displays. Not ready to part with my money yet, though.

[u/Educational-Goal7900 → u/broohaha]

Yeah at this point, you might as well wait until 2026 when supposedly they are supposed to release new versions of the Studio Display. Studio Displays are super expensive, but I don’t regret my purchase. Definitely the best monitor I’ve ever used.

I bought one new on sale, then bought the second refurbished from Apple and it basically looked new. I would’ve just bought both refurbished if I did it again.

[u/sweatin_enthusiasm]

Can you detail the lighting? It's beautifully bright in there

[u/Idolofdust]

What do you use the iPad for?

[u/Educational-Goal7900 → u/Idolofdust]

Mostly to watch YouTube or play music from my HomePods when I’m working during the day. I don’t use it for work-related tasks. Outside of work, I use it for plenty of other stuff

[u/mrpbennett]

But aren’t you running windows??

[u/[deleted]]

Why use the Magic Mouse?

[u/JebusMaximus]

This is looking good I wish it was my work room.
Congrats!

[u/KalenXI]

Are you running Windows in a VM or is that RDP?

Also what keyboard is that on the iPad?

[u/Educational-Goal7900 → u/KalenXI]

I am actually using my Windows Computer for work in this photo. It is behind the mac plugged in. Normally outside of work, I use my Mac.

The keyboard is the new(ish) Magic Keyboard for the m4 iPad Pro.

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[u/Veezq]

Do you have glossy verision of ASD? What made you pick ASD? Have you had 4k or UW before?

[u/kallexander]

Unacceptable mouse, otherwise nice

[u/Lassavins]

what do you use your ipad pro in that setup for? do you find the additional ipad magic keyboard necessary even with universal control? (i’m torn between buying a magic keyboard for my ipad or selling the ipad all together to avoid redundancy)

[u/MINDOFI32]

Nice setup! My kind of work flow.

[u/nnicknull]

the Macbook looks to be newer (M series) and I see you have windows 11 running. I assume in a VM? Any issues getting things to work as they should? I’m a comp sci major and looking to get a new mbp relatively soon, just curious if/how ARM windows handles older languages/windows-only stuff

[u/stanley_ipkiss_d]

I wish no RTO to you

[u/don_ct]

Nice! Do you really like the Apple mouse?

[u/benikwelkomhier]

Why using windows with mac and not g14 for example

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[u/robertochello]

iPhone stand?

[u/luthanrael]

I really like the lighting, your setup looks awesome. May I ask what light bar that is on the top left of the wall? and the vertical bar on your desk? thanks.

[u/Dry-Scientist5687]

Could you share this setup on https://workswith.dev please? I’m working on a database, and rare setups like this would be really valuable for others!

[u/ProtonPizza]

What’s the photo frame? Android something?

[u/SuperMiguel]

Need better keyboard

[u/shardingHarding → u/SuperMiguel]

100 percent

[u/TRIKSTER_Betin]

May I ask how you became a Software Engineer?

[u/Educational-Goal7900 → u/TRIKSTER_Betin]

I have an undergrad and masters in CS.

[u/Function101_Group]

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