so in recent years I've got I'm pretty into the hobby of writing as you guys may know I haven't been making as many YouTube videos and I still want somewhat of an outlet to put stuff down into real life and yeah writing has just been a really positive thing for me and you guys know me at this point I've kind of gone Balls to the walls trying to find a optimal way to write the best um probably not necessary but I just kind of wanted to have somewhat of a thought experiment to see what could
writers be using to maximize their writing so yeah this is what I've came up with and I've been really happy with a lot of it and in today's video we'll be going ahead and giving you a tour of the setup so yeah let's go ahead and get right into it so everything is running off of this pretty old Mac Mini that I got in 2021 for $80 from my University Surplus Store I have experimented with a number of computers on this monitor that we'll talk about later and yeah this one just has really good compatibility
with it and I just had it and it works for what I needed to it has a dual core i5 4 gigs of DDR3 RAM and I put an SSD in it and yeah it's been good enough for what I needed to do it's not amazingly fast but yeah it's good enough so I just have a stack of books right here um I just have too many books I kind of ran out of space but on top of it um I just have my old books Nova air thing is like a few years old at
this point but occasionally I like to be able to jot some stuff down or it's also useful to just have like my synced book I take notes on for my other tablets and yeah this one's just chill because it's pretty small so I just leave it right here and yeah pretty great tablet still even in 2025 although I don't know if I'd recommend it at this point the desk is a custom one that I got made on Etsy and then I attached these leg that I got from eBay they're from a midcentury modern table that
was made in Japan and yeah it's been pretty Rock Solid the keyboard is a qk 60 hhkb variant with Bubba u4s the switches are not tuned or anything so they sound not the best but yeah I'm using gmk Y on black and then I don't know where the heck I got this space bar from so yeah this track ball is a Logitech m570 I I got it from the thrift store for like a dollar and then I just put this like random track ball I had I have no idea where this track ball came from
but yeah works pretty great and the battery life is amazing so so the monitor is a books Mira Pro it is a 25.3 in 130 PPI monochrome eink monitor that I honestly have no idea if it's made anymore this thing was really expensive when I bought it and this is my second one because the first one died like a month after I got it and yeah I had to fight B&H for a month to get a replacement and that was a whole Fiasco it kind of soured me on the monitor now that I've had more
time with it I'm kind of enjoying it a lot more than when I initially got it and it's also Super Beta E I would highly not recommend this monitor unless you really know what you want and yeah I really like it but I'm kind of in a special class of really dumb people so everything is held on by a Herman Miller Allen monitor arm this is a pretty bougie monitor arm that I got for like 80 bucks online it was used but yeah showed up in Gray condition so I'm very thankful for that and I
prefer this monitor arm because as you can see it isn't protrude back so I can put this desk completely flat against the wall and I just really love the way it looks especially with this monitor the color of the gray monitor arm with the gray monitor I think it was a match made in heaven so the lamp is a tiso lamp mini there are bigger ones that I have in my dust setup actually this is the smaller one I got it 5 years ago and I've like never changed the bulb and it's been very reliable
these things are really bougie and definitely not necessary I'm just like a really big fan of the guy who designed it his name is Richard zapper so I'm a pretty big fan of incense because I use them while meditating and praying and yeah these have been my favorites from this PR called neone condo I just got like a big pack on Amazon and I like go through a few of them every day that is a little ball that I have I forgot the brand but I'll try to put a link in the description down below
that is a Hami plate that I'm using as kind of like an ashtray for my incense and yeah I'm just kind of like pretty into incense nowadays and like I think I became like a Granda when I was in the countryside in Japan cuz now I like drink matcha every day too so yeah the chair is a sitting office chair it's made in Korea and it's actually pretty reasonable for how much better it is than the other chairs on the market before this I was using that little meditation stool to type and this is like
a real game changer um this is actually like surprisingly comfortable I'm like already fairly used to sitting like Chris Cross or whatever and yeah this definitely elevates it so highly recommend it made in Korea make a dedicated video on this monitor so I thought I'd just kind of go ahead and give my brief thoughts about it because there's not too many videos or information about ink monitors in general so while this video was mainly made for writers I actually use this for more than just writing I mainly do my ay here nowadays now that I'm
in my hometown for a little while and not in La um I'm just been really enjoying it and yeah so this is my main eny spot and as you might guess it works amazing for anky cuz it is just you know black and white or whatever so yeah the writing response rate is pretty quick as you can see it's like you know responding quickly to what I'm trying to do um yeah whatever you know it it works really well and I think that this monitor really excels in the stuff that I'm showing you guys today
so you might have noticed but I'm pretty into studying Japanese and as a result I tend to read a lot of Japanese books and at the moment this monitor has been really amazing for just popping on a massive book in this app called two reader sometimes I'll do really large books and it's really useful just having both of them side by side and yeah it's honestly a really great setup this is really where this monitor shines so I currently have the backlight monitor on one cool and one bright as you can see you can make
it significantly brighter which oh that is very bright I prefer this one cool one warm and yeah not every variation of this monitor had the front light only the newer model did and mine is one of the newer models here's the same text on a 300 PPI panel both with front lights and yeah when it's at this size you can kind of see the green text but as long as it's readable um it's like you know pretty solid and yeah this is just been like an awesome reading experience and then here's what the monitor looks
like in the ultra clear mode as you can see whoa that is way slower and the ghosting is still pretty apparent but that being said look at how much sharper that is wow I don't know if how it actually use this because it's guess it's pretty usable if all you're doing is reading but I tend to interact with the text pretty actively whilst I'm reading and yeah as you can see manga looks pretty amazing on this um such a dream to see this on such a big screen you know so yeah pretty amazing I don't
know how much video stuff I would do on this that's kind of like taking a minivan to a race course to S really designed for that but you technically could I think when you play videos on eink displays it really shortens the panel's lifespan so I try to avoid too much movement as much as possible in general so as I alluded to earlier in the video I probably would not recommend this to like 99% of the general population it's pretty buggy sometimes and I've had to do a lot of trial and erir to get it
to run as best as possible at some point I was running with like a display link USBC adapter and like figuring out the best way to get it to work with like the dithering on M1 MacBooks and whatnot and yeah it's like this whole ordeal so if you know what I'm talking about and you know it's for you maybe you should look more into it but for most people it's probably a noo so yeah that's it for the setup today thanks for watching you guys I kind of made this because I'm still working on the
productivity desk setup for 2026 um I think it took the 10 year anniversary for my death set videos so I kind of wanted to be a banger so you guys will get this in the meantime while I'm still cooking that up so yeah thanks for watching
