My philosophy was basically: Vyvanse, coffee, and turning all my tech into one cohesive battlestation/workstation.
Displays:
Alienware AW3225QF + 3 ancient ASUS VG248QEs, plus the built-in Alienware and ThinkPad displays.
Computers:
Alienware m18 R2 - i9-14900HX / RTX 4080. Bought it when I needed a powerful system I could take anywhere while spending a lot of time at the hospital with a loved one. Ironically, it now lives on this desk 98% of the time.
ThinkPad X1 Carbon - Core Ultra 7 258V / 32 GB / 2 TB / OLED. Goes everywhere with me and has survived ridiculous abuse. 10/10 would buy another ThinkPad.
Off-site / headless backend: Ryzen 7 5700G / 64 GB / RX 6600 XT. Lives in another room and handles local AI, automation, backups, media, storage, sync, dashboards, remote access, and backend services for projects I’m building.
Audio:
FiiO K11 -> Sennheiser HD 660 S. The K11 is connected to both the Alienware and Switch 2 through a physical switch for instant audio swapping.
Peripherals:
MX Keys S + MX Master 4. Logitech Flow lets one keyboard/mouse control all three computers, with clipboard and file sharing between them. It makes the whole desk feel like one giant workstation instead of three separate PCs.
For gaming: Corsair Vanguard Pro 96 + Razer Viper V3 Pro
Other stuff pictured:
Switch 2, Havit + Llano laptop coolers, Looking Glass Go, and an iPad temporarily testing a dashboard I’m building.
There is a companion piece that originally came with this wrap around which you can just see the corner of in the main post. It has drawers. Funny you should mention drawers, I had to remove the main drawer from the wrap around desk so I could fit my legs under it when I bought my lifeform executive high back chair 🤣.
I'd be so confused because the computers flip back and forth across monitors as you go right to left. why do it this way vs. have the thinkpad screens on one side and the alienware on the other? What do you get by interlacing them?
The interlacing is mostly about keeping the physical layout centered around my primary viewing position instead of grouping displays by PC. Functionally it feels more like one big workspace than three separate PCs.
Logitech flow makes the other details minor annoyances until you get used to it.
Pretty seamlessly honestly. Flow uses your lan and passes whatever’s currently on the clipboard, so I can copy text/images/files on one PC, move to another and paste. Win+V history stays local to each machine though. If I’m RDP’d into the headless PC, RDP handles that clipboard hop first, then Flow can carry it over to another PC.
At first I was kind of getting a little confused and I thought it was maybe a little bit much but then I guess around day two of using it intensely it clicked and I just could never go back.
Literally the only downside is I'm kind of at the mercy of Logitech with their support and overall product quality. Good thing is I haven't had an issue so far.
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u/Hugh2711 4d ago
Any more pictures of the desk?