See I'm smarter about it than TM! I get to play with all of those (Oscilloscopes, Logic Analyzers, etc) all day long as much as I want, but I didn't have to pay a penny for any of them!! Just one of the many perks of having swipe-card access to all our Computer Engineering labs on campus!! And considering our brand new Oscilloscopes have USB ports for saving screenshots as well as short video clips, and our new $4000 Logic Analyzer just came in yesterday (cuz some idiot student decided to fry the old $1500 one!), I'd say I'm quite content to not have to pay for any of it!
As for the desk, I am definitely leaning more towards custom building my own. I'll try to draw up some quick sketches and post them so that people can give me some input in case I forget to take something into consideration!!
Oh, and I've definitely decided on Layout 1! I want side of the desk to be computer related and then the other have to be open space to work and/or use my tablet pc. I'm also thinking about adding a little 6" high "shelf" on the computer side to raise the monitors up a little bit and to give me more desk space for my G15 keyboard, mouse, and numpad!
I'll keep everyone updated with sketches and then pictures!!!