TIME Magazine has published a photo essay, “Al Gore’s American Life,” which shows former U.S. Vice President and current Apple Inc. Board of Directors member Al Gore’s personal computer setup which features no less than three 30-inch Apple Cinema HD Displays which are each capable of 2560 x 1600 resolution:
See the full image, which includes Gore’s very cluttered office, here.
MacDailyNews Take: Obviously, Gore enjoys (screen) real estate, but you’d think that massive monitor setup would help Gore achieve something much closer to a paperless office (see full image). Think of the trees, Al. Although we’re hardly ones to talk, we hereby nominate Gore for TLC’s “Clean Sweep” TV program.
Is this the place where he invented the internet?
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MDN word: “place” as in is this place…
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…and I care why?
GREEDY!!!! Save the environment my ass… imagine the energy over a year on those things…. lol! just jealous.
Pretty messy desk, and terrible ergonomics. Barely room to move the mouse.
Nukeman,
Stop the nonsense about Gore claiming he invented the internets.
That’s been debunked now for years, so drop the idiocy.
Man think of all the Global Warming those things cause, we’re all gonna die!!!!
And think of the electricity he’s burning by having that kind of setup. Talk about being a hypocrite. Think about your carbon footprint there Al….
I love Sundays!
OK, that’s just funny to me.
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Three 30″ screens, and he STILL can’t see the big picture!!!
I could be mistaken, but I think those are three 24″ displays; sitting here looking my 24″ display and the relative size of the key board in relation to the screen size in the photo.
“Man think of all the Global Warming those things cause, we’re all gonna die!!!!”
“May 20, 07 – 11:52 amComment from: RC
And think of the electricity he’s burning by having that kind of setup. Talk about being a hypocrite. Think about your carbon footprint there Al….”
He uses 100% GREEN energy. No fossil fuels powering those babies. 😀
Stop the nonsense about Gore claiming he invented the internets.
Yeah – In 1997, I saw Bill Gates claim that Microsoft invented it.
Now that is a nice set up! Even a big screen TV on the wall.
Notice that Al does recycle – an old door in the large picture hsd been used for big board paper. The mass of paper will be “incoming” mail, reports, etc. Just shows how much goes through his office.
I like the picture though. My office, with only one small 23″ display can be just as bad at times!
Apple doesn’t make a stand-alone 24″ monitor. They have 20″, 23″ and 30″. Their only 24″ screen is inside the 24″ iMac. Thought you should know…
AL GORE, CONTRIBUTING SIGNIFICANTLY TO GLOBAL WARMING
Will you just look at all that excessive heat and electricty he’s using. One 30″ monitor is good enough for most professionals who need the extra screen real estate, most get by with a smaller sceen just fine.
But NOOOO, our supposed champion of the ecology is using THREE MASSIVE MONITORS when G.W Bush only uses a MacBookPro with a 17″ screen.
Then just look at the CLUTTER OF AL GORES OFFICE. Obvious signs of a disorganized mind and a forgetful one, as everything, including what’s on his computer screen needs to remain in constant vision or it’s “out of sight, out of mind”.
“Mr.President Gore, did you sign that bill about sending the troops to stop the looting and killing in post hurricane New Orleans?”
Al Gore – “Oh yea, I forgot, let me see, it’s in one of these piles somewhere”
People like to bash GW Bush, and in some cases I agree with them, but this picture revels a ton of information about Al Gore and it’s not all good.
what a crappy setup. 3 x 30″ is nice don’t get me wrong, but look at the crappy desk with mouse space. i think it sucks
He isn’t using fossil fuels to run those. They’ve been retooled to run on smug.
“You want the screens?
You can’t handle the screens!”
http://digitaltigers.com/displays-arena.shtml
@iSpot-a-Hypocrite
Bush uses a computer?!! That’s got to be the surprise of the day!!
As for your opinion about Gore, well, you know what they say . . . . if you can’t handle the message, just attack the messenger.
Al Gore’s office powered only by wind energy from hot air ejected from his mouth and combusted methane spewed from his large ass.
It must to be nice to be a director at Apple, call up and say I want 3-30″ monitors, top of the line powerMac and enought video cards to power these babies up. And oh yah, overnight them to me.
You ain’t seen my cluttered office.
Lots of clutter, no screens.
No plants either.
“top of the line powerMac”
Mac Pro, maybe?
Looks very gory to me. I’d rather see Rush’s set-up
What you don’t see is the GREEN ENVY energy being tapped off the internet to run all those 30″ monitors
If that runs out, then there is always the interns using their treadmills just on the other side of the office wall to tap off of.
Sure the interns each consume $30 a day in oil needed to produce the food they eat to run the treadmills, but that’s not on Al Gores head, he’s using green energy, the interns just need to starve instead to save the enviroment.