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I used to buy a $100 chair every year because it would break, I have had my miller for almost 11 years now.
I bought a $100 chair, and then I bought a Herman Miller Aeron. The $100 chair is much more comfortable. For one thing, the seat pan is padded cloth instead of mesh. Even my coworkers prefer it, so we outfitted the office with the $100 chairs, and nobody wants to sit on the uncomfortable $800 Aerons.
Arms aside, I'm not crazy about the chair. It's not really comfortable for anything besides sitting straight up at a desk. The Steelcase chairs I've had at work are more versatile, although I've broken one of those too.
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That's going from one extreme to another. Neither gives you value for money. There are many brands in $300 range which sell quality ergonomic chairs built to last. $700 you save you can spend on electric height adjustable sit/stand desk.
Which brands? I've tried a couple $200-300 chairs, and while they last 2-3x as long and are a bit more comfortable, I feel like their utility is still linearly related to cost.
Buro Metro is highly recommended ergonomic chair in Australia. 10 years warranty. I think I paid $250 AUD which is less than $200 USD.
I know the Aeron is extremely popular, but IMO the Embody is a better chair: http://www.hermanmiller.com/products/seating/performance-wor...
Got rid of my Aeron because it was too hard and rigid.
For anyone wanting to try one out, go to your local Design Within Reach and you can have a demo.
Quote from Blink by Gladwell:
"In late 1993, as they prepared to launch the chair, Herman Miller
put together a series of focus groups around the country. They wanted
to get some ideas about pricing and marketing and make sure there was
general support for the concept. They started with panels of architects
and designers, and they were generally receptive. “They understood
how radical the chair was,” Dowell said. “Even if they didn’t see it
as a thing of beauty, they understood that it had to look the way it
did.” Then they presented the chair to groups of facility managers
and ergonomic experts—the kinds of people who would ultimately be
responsible for making the chair a commercial success. This time the
reception was downright chilly.
[...]
Before long, however, the chair started to attract the attention of
some of the very cutting-edge elements of the design community. It
won a design of the decade award from the Industrial Designers Society
of America. In California and New York, in the advertising world and in
Silicon Valley, it became a kind of cult object that matched the
stripped-down aesthetic of the new economy. It began to appear in
films and television commercials, and from there its profile built
and grew and blossomed. By the end of the 1990s, sales were growing
50 to 70 percent annually, and the people at Herman Miller suddenly
realized that what they had on their hands was the best-selling chair
in the history of the company."Now what is missing from the comments is a good summary of the differences. I read the comments to I don't have to think for myself and so I don't have to digest the article. I think of the comments as the mturk version of AI article summaries. GET ON IT PEOPLE! :)
I've been trying both chairs out, and found some of the Mirra 2's features a lot better than the Aeron (notably it's forward tilt and it's more adjustable arm rests), but hated the softness of the seat mesh which felt like I was sitting in a hammock and put pressure in unwanted areas, causing numbness.
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I used Aeron at work. It's decent but not worth that amount of money though.
Can you give me some recommendation ?, i looking for a cheap office chair but ergonomic
I'd recommend buying an expensive ergonomic chair from Craigslist or an office furniture liquidation company. You can pick up a great chair at 1/3 the retail price. You should be able to find a Steelcase Leap V2 for $200-300. Then make sure you download the user manual off the web so you know how to configure it correctly.
Wow, this is just full of people who don't like the aeron. I agree it's expensive. I just buy used ones on craigslist for $375. I just wait till there is one. I've got 3. I've had a work aeron since 2002. Love the things they work for me. I know plenty of people they don't work for. I used several other ergonomic chairs and they pinched the nerves at the back of my knees and caused the outsides of my feet to go numb.…
- New mesh material which is apparently more supportive
- New back support mechanism which is a combination of the two previous options (which you could not put together) - both the lumbar and the pelvis supports
- Chair is angled 1.8 degrees further forward
- Tilt mechanism causes the chair to hug your body more, with less latency
- A new white-ish color option
Other than that it looks the same.
I'm in the middle of an assessment of both Aeron and Mirra 2, so yeah I've been in the details a bit too much this week...
...as a programmer I find it easy to make decisions based on facts, but when it's a decision based on how something feels, I lock up in panicked indecision and almost always make a choice I regret!