Keyboard trays were created by/for people who use their keyboards no more than 3 minutes in a day.

After having experimented with desks with moving parts …. I’ve found that simple large flat surfaces are the way to go. Ikea is great for them - just don’t buy chairs from them. Another good alternative is to buy used (real) office furniture - its usually 5 times heavier and sturdier than consumer stuff.
Get the largest desk you can fit in the room.
If you are like me and like multiple monitors stay away from monitor mount arms. They move too easily - which means that the monitors easily go out of aligment - and a slight nudge to one of the monitors can ruin your day.

I have a Logitech G7 wireless mouse (which comes with 2 battery packs - so one charges while you use the other) - but YMMV with macs.

Invest in a docking station (dunno if they make those for mac notebooks).

Go easy on climate control - get a fan instead - the planet and your electric bill will thank you. I have the Seville Classic Slimline from Costco but you can find similar ones elsewhere.

A little neat thing I forgot about Synergy is that it not only enables sharing of KVM, but the Clip Board as well. Copying something on one computer makes it possible to paste it into a completely different one, independent of operating system. It only works for text, though.

On the machine whose screen you want to share:
System Preferences > Sharing
then choose Apple Remote Desktop. Click the Access Privileges… button, and choose your options. To allow sharing to VNC clients, the lower section has a “VNC viewers may control…” checkbox with accompanying password field. Check it, enter a screen-sharing password (not necessarily an account password), then OK to dismiss, and Start to turn screen sharing on.

On Leopard, just enter screen sharing in Spotlight’s search field. Or google for it.

VNC is a semi-decent client, and has multi-platform versions. Chicken of the VNC is a Mac version.

One word of warning: with no USB keyboard plugged in at all, some Macs will enable Bluetooth at boot time and search for devices. Bluetooth will then REMAIN enabled after boot. You can control some of this using the Bluetooth prefs pane.

Agreed on the hardwood. I’m looking into it. There are other desks in the office not shown in the photo, and I may add another. Unfortunately Logitech does not offer any drivers for Mac OS X or Linux for this mouse. Maybe it works better on Windows.

Asbjørn,
I’ll try to drop by IKEA this weekend since I’ll be in the neighborhood anyway. Are those plates hard, rigid plastic? I have a carpet protector now, but it’s not really solid enough.

I had to have an AC firm add another source outlet in my office. It was just a small bedroom in the house, and two desktops, a printer, a laptop and me overwhelmed it.

I could never live with such a small desk. I keep lots of stuff on my desk, so I can find it. Then every few months, I have to clear off all the, er, stuff.

I use belkin KVMs, but depending on the OS and mouse, you may lose all the fancy keys. My MX518 gets stupid when I switch from Linux to Windows and back.

Did you enable accelleration in the mouse drivers? You might need to install Logitech’s driver suite to enable the feature, but when it’s on, the mouse pointer movement should accellerate with the speed of the mouse. I think it works fairly well.

The floor protecting plates we’ve installed in our home office are Kolon from IKEA. I’d recommend the transparent ones, although the flowered patterned are kind of fun too.

It’s on the pricier side, but it fit my needs perfectly.

And I had the same carpet issues with my basement office when I got it finished. They put padding under the industrial carpet which made it difficult to scoot around. The carpet got damaged one day due to a leak and when I replaced it, I excluded the padding. It made the biggest difference.

I used to use synergy but my neck would hurt switching between 3 monitors (even next to each other). I got a better system now with 2 monitors next to each other and I remote desktop into any other computers. I find KVM switches and all the extra wires to be a hassle.