Poll: Best Chair For Desktop Coding?
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#12Depends on what you want to optimize. Health? Standing cured all my back problems and helped me lose weight. Comfort? Nothing beats a couch and some pillows under your back. I stand as much as I can then retreat to a soft couch when I get tired.
What desk do you use?
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#13Quite an unbalanced list in terms of cost: Standing $0 Exercise Ball $15 Herman Miller Aeron Chair $1,150
You're forgetting the cost to change your home setup to support standing. Of course, you can go very cheap and use cardboard boxes to hold up your monitor and keyboard.
I got my standing desk from Ikea (from the 'As Is" section) for about $100
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#14I'm using a Herman Miller Embody. I had an Aeron before, and I personally think the Embody is absolutely worth the additional money.
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
You're forgetting the cost to change your home setup to support standing. Of course, you can go very cheap and use cardboard boxes to hold up your monitor and keyboard.
I got my standing desk from Ikea (from the 'As Is" section) for about $100
My standing desk is a set of $60 industrial shelves from CostCo.
If all you care about about is functionality, furniture can be pretty cheap. I'm thinking of the Xooglers video where Google's massive line of desks was a series of doors on top of sawhorses.
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#16At work, I'm on an Aeron chair. It's pretty comfortable.
At home, I like a couch. Couches let me spread out and contort myself into weird positions as I feel like it. (As an example, my roommate in college once walked in to find me laying on the ground with my MacBook Pro on my stomach and legs on our couch. I didn't even realize I had gotten into that position until he said something.)
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#17Invested in a Herman Miller Mirra and couldn't be happier.
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#18Ikea Markus http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/00103102
Ha, I was just about to suggest this! It's the chair I have at the moment (6 months old) and it has "fixed" my back problems (as much as something can fix) that were caused by years of a terrible chair that caused me to lean forward all the time.
The way this chair reclines and fits my back makes it super comfortable and helps my back.
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#19I have a standing desk so I try to stand most of the time, but I also invested in a pretty comfortable padded bar stool with a back as backup.
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#20I'm using a Herman Miller Embody. I had an Aeron before, and I personally think the Embody is absolutely worth the additional money.
Seconded. Having owned an Aeron and multiple other high-end chairs, I wholly believe that the Embody is the best option out there. Considering how many hours we spend on average in front of the computer, buying a chair that encourages a proper posture and relieves stress on joints is easily worth the money, imo.