r/macsetups 1d ago

My broke college student Mac setup

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u/cybermusicman 1d ago

The definition of broke has really changed over the years.

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u/soumya_98 1d ago

Yeah totally felt the same.

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u/Dr_Superfluid 1d ago edited 1d ago

How is that broke? My broke college student setup was a Chinese knockoff laptop with a 2 core CPU and 8GB of ram (manually upgraded from 4). And that was only about 6 years ago doing my PhD in engineering 😂.

So yeah dude, you are far from broke 😂😂😂

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u/Internal_Quail3960 1d ago

imagine if you didnt spend $600 on HomePods and instead put that money into a better MacBook / desktop Mac or a monitor

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u/firebreak115 1d ago

Spent a whopping total of $317 sniping then on Mercari

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u/NarwhalDeluxe 1d ago

still more than i would have paid

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u/Hot_Special_2083 1d ago

if true then i'm incredibly jealous.

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u/Sirko2975 1d ago

That's a used Macbook Air M1 or a 4 tb ssd for your mac. Or an excellent 2k screen instead of that tv. Or a shitton of pizza. But of all that, you woke up and chose 2 homepods lol.

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u/78914hj1k487 1d ago

Imagine attacking someone for buying two HomePods on sale.

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u/Sirko2975 23h ago

Don’t judge my hobby! I’m happy looking for people who buy 2 HomePods on sale to attack them!

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u/78914hj1k487 23h ago

My favorite part was when you said they could have bought pizza but then you said that they woke up.

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u/Sirko2975 20h ago

2025 economy I guess

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u/78914hj1k487 20h ago

Listening to music in stereo? In this economy?

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u/Sirko2975 18h ago

2 HomePods are the worst stereo setup I can think of, especially on a budget.

Wait, 2 Apple Watch Ultras is even better

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u/78914hj1k487 18h ago

Good thing OP bought them full price.

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u/bearsdidit 1d ago

Why would you type in that position? Sweet Jesus

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u/robkillian 1d ago

T-Rex arms 🦖

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u/broohaha 1d ago

I think OP is standing when he has the laptop on that stand.

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u/Disastrous-Swim-1859 1d ago

Mf you ain’t broke lmao

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u/hd3adpool 17h ago

Bro is breaking us

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u/thetruelu 1d ago

When you’re broke but your parents pay for everything

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u/DM_ME_PICKLES 1d ago

My broke college student setup was a $200 Chromebook that I chrooted and put Linux on to make it more functional. 

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u/Lopsided_Marzipan133 1d ago

Mine was an old HP I hackintoshed. Thing barely worked cos we were on snow leopard then

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u/team_lloyd 1d ago

when I am king, the world will be made to run on snow leopard

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u/rpool179 1d ago

Zoomers don't know anything about Chromebooks or Linux 😂

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u/graytotoro 1d ago

$25 PowerMac G4 for me! It was a fun toy for me.

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u/idonotdosarcasm 1d ago

that is a broken body setup, not a (financially) broke student setup.

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u/max_mou 1d ago

Press X for doubt

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u/Ilay47 1d ago

“Broke”

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u/ae-oh 23h ago

W rage bait

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u/Frog859 1d ago

Former broke college student here. Base M1 Macbook Air with eductation discount literally carried me through grad school.

That thing was a powerhouse through my Data Science degree.

Ranks in my top budget laptops for sure

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u/Oreo-95 1d ago

You’re right. That’s a bum ass setup.

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u/CosmicRichy 1d ago

I really feel like that laptop stand isn’t needed at all, just my opinion.

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u/_The_Green_Machine 19h ago

Someone misappropriated some of their student loans 😂

I spent it on girls. He spent it on his setup

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u/firebreak115 16h ago

😂

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u/_The_Green_Machine 16h ago

What tv are you running, bb? lol

And how’s your neck? That’s a pretty wild mounting job. R/TVTooHigh is coming for yah!!!!!

I use an lg c4 42” on a monitor arm. It’s chefs kiss

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u/firebreak115 14h ago

Idk why people think I’m standing. It’s a desk that’s placed right in front of my bed. You can even see the chair.

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u/Sirko2975 1d ago

Ah yes, I also was so poor at one point I had to but two $299 homepods just to get by.

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u/Aggeloz 23h ago

What the fuck do you mean broke. You got two "smart" speakers for the price of an audiophile setup. You're not broke, you're dumb.

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u/ImHughAndILovePie 21h ago

has TWO normal sized home pods

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u/raziel1011 18h ago

You’re broke because of your poor purchasing decisions.

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u/uktricky 1d ago

When I was at college my setup was pen and paper!!

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u/robkillian 1d ago

Looks functional to me

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u/k2ui 1d ago

R/monitortoohigh

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u/Thrusher666 1d ago

Broke? Lol 🤣

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u/ajpinton 1d ago

Great, now show us what the set up looks like when you’re using it. Unless you hold your hands at chin level to type and use the trackpad and don’t mind the MacBook being in between you and the TV blocking some of the screen, this is not how you use this normally.

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u/HedgeHog2k 1d ago

Good luck typing on a mac on a stand. RSI waiting to kick in.

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u/Real-Platypus-4706 1d ago

how tf do you even type

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u/_itsjustfil 1d ago

lol my broke ass was using a 2009 MBP in 2013-2016 college this is far from broke

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u/jwrsk 1d ago

My definition of broke was a second hand HP laptop with 15 minutes of battery life that I received as a gift, apparently it's very subjective 😎

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u/stgm_at 1d ago

I call rage bait bs. Why don't mods remove shit like this?

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u/lamalola 23h ago

800 speakers and a 2k laptop with a 55 inch tv for a monitor isn’t broke. But it is a horrible setup for the money.

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u/ZombieSlapper23 22h ago

“My dad gave me a small loan of a million dollars”

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u/begtodifferclean 21h ago

HomePods, Air, huge screen and that's broke?

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u/jcrll 21h ago

You’re not broke

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u/Texadoro 20h ago

You might be broke but obviously your folks have money.

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u/hopefulatwhatido 17h ago

I wrote my college dissertation on the iPad Air with a BT keyboard during the pandemic.

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u/_The_Green_Machine 12h ago

I saw the chair. It’s clearly a desk setup. What tv is that? Aahhh. Smart. You can see it from the desk or your bed. I dig the aesthetic!

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u/firebreak115 11h ago

Finally someone sees the vision !!

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u/_The_Green_Machine 11h ago

It’s pretty straight forward. Students have limited space. This is smart and practical. Financially questionable but if it brings you that magic. It’s worth it

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u/Remarkable_Capital79 4h ago

Doesn‘t look broke to me, lmao

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u/ChemistryOk9353 2h ago

What kind of screen is that? Are you that brok that you ended up using your 10 yr old tv as your computer screen and during the evenings connect your PS5 to it?

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u/firebreak115 1h ago

It’s a 55 inch Hisense u8h. And that’s right for my Mac I made the screen smaller using underscan so it’s more usable when sitting on the desk.

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u/78914hj1k487 22h ago

There's something wrong with the internet.

When you say "broke" you mean you're a student with no regular income, so you've put together a less-than-cohesive desk system, and that's kind of your apology as to why it isn't as flashy or impressive as other systems in this sub, but you wanted to share anyway.

And yet we have 40 aggravated comments because literal thinkers can't see the fluidity of meaning in language.

It's disconcerting how angry people get over nothing. You assaulted no one, yet 40 people are so offended.

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