Khoi Vinh
Designer and writer; design director of NYTimes.com, later a principal designer at Adobe, and author of the Subtraction.com blog.
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Uses Incase
I use a neoprene laptop sleeve from Incase to shuttle it around; it's actually a case sized for a regular MacBook which means it's a little bigger, but I need the extra room to tote along a Mini DisplayPort-to-VGA adapter and a USB-to-Ethernet adapter too.
usesthis.com 12 Oct 2009
Loved Kensington Expert Mouse
Next to my main keyboard is my main mousing device: a four-button Kensington Expert Mouse. It's hard to believe but I've been using Kensington trackballs for over sixteen years now. It's my favorite mousing device by far.
usesthis.com 12 Oct 2009
Disliked Apple Cinema Displays
I'm also completely unimpressed by Apple Cinema Displays. They're way too pricey, and actually what I want out of a second monitor is color inconsistency.
usesthis.com 12 Oct 2009
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Liked Dell 1905FP
This Dell 1905FP isn't particularly large, but I'd rather have a second monitor of modest size than only one 30-in. display.
usesthis.com 12 Oct 2009
Mixed on KB Cover
Also, I tend to keep my keyboards covered with a KB Cover. It's rubbery and looks pretty attractive, but it does slow you down a little until you've become accustomed to it.
usesthis.com 12 Oct 2009
Loved iMac
It's a great piece of hardware and to me it's kind of crazy to think that it's just consumer-grade iron; I barely use a third of its true processing power, I'd bet.
usesthis.com 12 Oct 2009
Liked Synergy
Most of the time, I'm using Synergy to control the MacBook from the iMac's input devices that sit next to it. Synergy treats both computers almost as if they were one computer, which saves me tons of switching back and forth.
usesthis.com 12 Oct 2009
Mixed on Rain Design mStand
When the MacBook is in the office it usually rests on a Rain Design mStand, which is a really beautiful piece of industrial design; it feels very substantial, and the laptop really looks great on it. My one complaint is that the mStand is fixed at one specific angle.
usesthis.com 12 Oct 2009
Uses Speck SeeThru
For added safety, I somewhat dorkily keep the MacBook Air in a Speck SeeThru hard shell case, which I describe to people as the Internet-age equivalent of covering my couch in plastic.
usesthis.com 12 Oct 2009
Uses MacBook Air
So late last year I bought this 1.86 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo MacBook Air (I custom ordered it with the faster processor that normally ships with the solid-state drive model, but I bought a normal spinning hard drive to save money); it's maxed out with 2 GB of memory.
usesthis.com 12 Oct 2009
Where they publish
Blog subtraction.com His blog since 2001.
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GitHub khoivinh His account.
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