Dream Desk - The Ultimate MacBook Pro Surprise Setup #Helpful Post

yo guys johnathan here and welcome to

dream desk 4 which is simple but

powerful packs a ton of pixels but this

one is special because this dream desk

is mine

hi Meredith yes how's it going good how

are you I'm good

sorry if this is super random oh yeah so

back with dreamed us three

I remember you tweeted and that kind of

really stuck with me just I remember

seeing that tweet about how your son

woke you up to go watch the ps3 I'm

building my desk right now so I kind of

had the idea of surprising your son with

a setup like mine oh man eat well sad

yeah yeah oh this is so cool like how do

I have white Michael when I saw this is

and this be asked oh yeah I wish you had

any idea how much fucking he was you

have inspired so many best like changes

and and you know just inspiration for

him in general to continually try and

redo what they are yet

so this setup is centered around a 2016

15 inch MacBook Pro and LG's ultra fine

5k display being able to dock a macbook

pro into a 5k display is something I've

wanted for a really long time using a 5k

iMac and then going back to a 4k display

always felt like a bit of a downgrade so

this gives me the best of both worlds

now the desk itself funny enough is

technically a dying table so if you

walked into the office section IKEA you

would never see it so what I happen to

stumble upon it in the dining section I

immediately fell in love it has a

beautiful glossy reflective top tons of

room for activities really well built

legs that are classy but also let you do

some serious wizardry with cable

management now the MacBook Pro itself is

the top spec i7 model with Radeon Pro

460 graphics in controversy and dongles

aside performance for me has been

fantastic the video you're watching

right now is shot in red 6k raw and was

edited entirely on this machine jumping

back to the ultra fine 5k huge shout out

to LG for not only sending this my way

early but also sponsoring dream guys for

it is a beautiful 5k display that

connects through a single Thunderbolt 3

cable and on top of giving you dock

functionality with three extra USB

seaports it is also powering the MacBook

Pro which is awesome

small things like being able to control

the brightness within Mac OS is a nice

touch but more than anything it is a

really impressive looking display if

you've used or you're coming from a 5k

iMac it is every bit as good and

possibly a little better it's super

bright has beautiful colors honestly so

far I couldn't be happier with this

combo now behind the monitor making

everything look nice and pretty is the

hue lightstrip plus from philips who are

also awesome enough to sponsor us for

getting to partner with philips has been

one of the coolest experiences so far

for me if you've watched any of my

videos you know I love lights and

there's something special about adding

color to your setup especially your desk

it kind of just gets your brain going

and for me

helps creatively now as far as the

speakers I have been searching and

looking for the perfect pair pretty much

all year but finally I think I found

them these are the atom Artists threes

which look amazing and pack an

incredible sound and a relatively small

package they have a ton of inputs but

also connect their USB which is super

handy the four and a half inch carbon

fiber Wolfer pumps out some pretty

impressive low-end but we set up to me

most was the high end I am not sure what

kind of magic is going on here but these

are some of the clearest speakers I've

ever heard in my life being able to hear

every instrument every nuance is Incred

and then things like stereo link or a

single control one speaker controls both

of them is icing on the cake now to the

right of the desk this is ela C bolt 3

which is a 2 terabyte Thunderbolt 3

external SSD with insane speeds inside

are 2 1 terabyte m2 PCIe drives which

pump out over 2,000 megabytes per second

on the right side and over 2500 on the

read so with this you're essentially

getting the same performance of the

MacBook Pro internally but on an

external drive what's kind of cool is

that it comes with a removable stand

that attaches magnetically and also a

magnetized cable door that pops open to

plug things and encloses to keep things

nice and tidy as far as the rest of the

setup to keep things clean and to

connect your Bluetooth I'm rocking the

Apple wireless keyboard and the Logitech

MX master I finally given up the

performance MX and it seems like any

problems or bugs I had with MX master

before are gone and so far after this

switch I am really enjoying this mouse

rounded out the desk things would not be

complete without the Tamas desk lamp

which gives me some of that toy story

Pixar action now that my setup is

complete though it is time to hop on a

plane and head to st. Louis

so made it out to st. Louis holy balls

is it cold my face is known but that is

beside the point because it's now time

to be Miss Meredith the mom let's go now

because Meredith and her son were going

to see family for the holidays the time

frame was extremely narrow so what I did

was overnight the computer the monitor

the speakers the accessories from B&H;

and Amazon luckily they came through the

only thing missing though was the most

important part of the setup the desk

itself so after we made sure everything

else was there we headed out to Ikea I

got to tell you guys Meredith is an

incredible single mom

the initial tweet of her being that

involved with her son spoke volumes to

me but getting a chance to hang out with

there was a completely different level

she battles vascular EDS and no joke

just came off surgery this week instead

of staying back resting she was right

there with me at IKEA going to Lowe's to

rent a truck in seeing how selfless she

is and how much love she has for her son

is incredible I you know that keeps me

going my diseases second to the fact

that I'm a mom and I make everything fit

into the mom part first and you know I

obviously do what I can to take care of

myself

but it's it's all secondary to being a

mom you get inspiration from having a

kid that that's unreal like I I didn't

know what inspiration was until I had a

kid to fight for you know it has kept me

going when things were not looking great

now to keep things a surprise she was

able to work with her sister-in-law to

keep her son distracted trying to do

this in a single day may have been a

little ambitious time was flying by but

it was now time to build out the setup

now for her son bebe there were four

elements of my setup that I really

wanted to bring to his the first of

which being the same desk which we were

able to find a 15-inch Space Gray

MacBook Pro that he could dock into a

monitor white speaker so he could get

that really clean white stormtrooper

look and most importantly I wanted to

give him a splash of that TLD lighting

which ended up working amazing because

after talking to Meredith he had been

wanting Phillips hue forever so it's the

end of the day been battling the clock

but somehow managed to pull everything

off Meredith is on our way right now to

pick up bebe who has no idea what is

coming next my heart's like pounding

how's it going dude hi nice to meet you

nice to meet you too yeah um surprise

uh yes sir

you know seeing her say that like you

clean your desk because of that yeah my

videos was cool

I was wrong of them that's so cool dude

so I figured I was building my desk and

let's make you a set up like mine

I can't even say thank you enough uh-huh

it just amazes me so much that you would

actually think about that tweet and end

up coming to my house and showing up

with a amazing desk the experience of it

I think was was a lot of fun you know I

I knew you're gonna do something great

for him but I didn't really think I'd

take a part in it

so it was neat to spend the day you know

with with you and you know getting

getting to meet you that was that's just

great that's really cool this was a

great way to spend a day he's happy he's

so happy and surprised and I don't get

to do that very often so I mean who gets

to hang out with you know with somebody

that they admire that much so to see him

actually get to meet you in real life I

think as awesome as the desk is just

getting the hang with you is is probably

what will stick with him for life

good job

all day all day every day every day he

was on their block until we made a way

later way dated a man