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PSA: Used office chairs are a much better deal than new, at least if you are paying close to list price. About 10 years ago I bought a steelcase leap for less than $300. I've used it at least 250 days a year since then with no problems. List price on that chair is $1k.
Damn this is awesome. I'm actually dreading working from home because I don't have a desk, keyboard, or anything of the sort.
Dining tables make the best desks. Lots of surface area, and plenty of room underneath for cables and boxen.
I work from a proper ergonomic office desk now but it beat many other alternatives including a dining table and various purpose-made 'home office' desks.
(Accepting I got lucky with the height of the radiator).
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That seems incredibly overpriced unless you need absolute color reproduction or some other specialty.
It isn’t about color, it’s about resolution. My LG ultra fine 5k monitor is amazing. Will never go back to cheap monitors again. It pairs perfectly with the 5k iMac Pro.
https://www.amazon.com/Dell-Monitor-P2415Q-24-Inch-LED-Lit/d...
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Cherry MX browns might be an option, they are supposed to be quiet.
Still very clacky if you bottom them out which 99% of people do. Mechanical keyboards, unfortunately, do not have a place in the office space.
I have neighbors with mechanicals that bother me so bad I’ve had to pack up and go home for the day. This is over music on noise canceling headphones.
Different people actually have different amounts of trouble with this, with some having lots of problems. Just lucky I guess?
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Why are you wasting money? You can get 5 27" monitors for the price of one of those and 3 or 4 43" 4ks for the price of both.
What? How about some specifics. My requirements for a monitor is high resolution for plenty of desktop space (minimum 4k) and IPS panels for viewing angle, besides, I think IPS is the least straining panel to look at. When you combine these two requirements you are likely at 700+ for a single monitor. But hey, I see 80 col Vim developers, too, so everyone’s needs are different.
I have worked from home for nearly a decade. I guess I don’t know what I’m missing but I don’t need 1k chair. I sit at my dinning room table on a 50 dollar chair from Ashley Furniture. No problems at all. True I don’t have a desktop and use a laptop so I can take it with me to onsite meetings or move to another location like my patio, couch, or garage. I’m not sure what I’d spend 1k on besides the machine I use to ge…
Damn this is awesome. I'm actually dreading working from home because I don't have a desk, keyboard, or anything of the sort.
Dining tables make the best desks. Lots of surface area, and plenty of room underneath for cables and boxen.
I've been working remotely for a little over 18 years, at first in a tiny 450sqft apt with 2 roommates and now in a house with an office with many other situations in-between in a few different cities.
The most important thing I've ever done for my sanity, productivity, and consistency is set up a permanent space to work. Same chair, same surface, work only. My whole life could be a complete shit-show but my "office" was tidy and available, even if that "office" was an edge of the kitchen table.
There are other things like making sure roommates and significant others understand the boundaries when working and such, but dedicating a workspace has always been the most fundamentally essential.
You can buy a Herman Miller refurb on Amazon for $500. It's a great deal. You also need a second monitor, mechanical keyboard, webcam, headset. $1k is plenty for all of that
People with mechanical keyboards in conference calls can jump in a lake. haha