I've always wanted a Herman Miller chair, but unfortunately I've never been able to afford one. Some day...
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#12That is my dream chair... Unfortunately, they cost north of $1000 here in Australia.
< $3/day to be comfortable while hacking code?
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#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not totally sure either, but my best guess is they're aesthetically pleasing and supposedly ergonomically great, which is I guess appreciated amongst the crowd that spends all day sitting in front of them. They seem to have a fair amount of research to back up their ergonomics (see this blog post regarding Aeron chair design: http://www.hermanmiller.com/research/solution-essays/the-ben... )
when the aeron first came out it was panned as being ugly fwiw.
yeah... my first thought was 'orange? really?' It just seems like they are going to look very dated in a few years. I mean, I kindof like the look of the aeron, but part of that, I'm sure, is that I came of age during the dot-com, when they were super cool. I'm still kinda disappointed in myself for not getting one at a dot-com closeout. That would have been... appropriate.
I have a few '70s steelcase chairs... they are not bad chairs, they are still in pretty good shape and work okay, but the avocado green is... avocado green.
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#14That is my dream chair... Unfortunately, they cost north of $1000 here in Australia.
Spending money on a good chair is totally worth it. I picked up an Aeron back in 2006 and it is still going strong today. I think I paid around $700 for it, so that breaks down to $100 a year. I know up front costs like that are hard to do all at once but if you can buy quality items such as a good chair and desk and keep them for a long time it totally pays off. I did this with my desk too. The Fit System from Anthro is bad ass, aside from having to move it.
http://www.sit4life.com/products/Herman-miller/Aeronreg-chai...
http://www.anthro.com/getdoc/406c4518-c3e1-4447-8e77-bfd5944...
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#15I haven't used a Herman Miller chair, so I don't claim to understand why they are popular, but from a purely aesthetic view of the world, that is a very nice looking chair. Can someone enlighten me as to what the big deal is about Herman Miller chairs?
herman miller: chairs that are ugly as all hell, but comfy as a cloud in heaven.
Hard to tell from looking at them but you never want to leave them once you sit in one.
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#16Looks like a less expensive version of the Embody, which is a good thing. I've got an Embody at home and at work and won't sit in anything else. I think this will be a good replacement for all those Areons out there. Attractive, cheaper, and likely better quality. It seems like a winner for them.
I love my Embody. For the past year and a half or so, the chair has single-handedly made my work more enjoyable. A good chair is more important than perhaps anything else. You don't know what you're missing until you've found the one that fits you best.
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#17I've always wanted a Herman Miller chair, but unfortunately I've never been able to afford one. Some day...
Have you looked at used ones?
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#18That is my dream chair... Unfortunately, they cost north of $1000 here in Australia.
Mirra 1: $895 incl. GST
http://livingedge.com.au/shop/216-mirra-chair.html
and Living Edge has specials on from time-to-time.
I personally love the Embody… waiting the 14 week delivery time was not so fun though.
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#19That is my dream chair... Unfortunately, they cost north of $1000 here in Australia.
< $3/day to be comfortable while hacking code?
Much less if you consider the life of the chair will be many years :) Also, the cost of Physio in Australia.... Well worth the price tag in my opinion.
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#20That is my dream chair... Unfortunately, they cost north of $1000 here in Australia.
Spending money on a good chair is totally worth it. I picked up an Aeron back in 2006 and it is still going strong today. I think I paid around $700 for it, so that breaks down to $100 a year. I know up front costs like that are hard to do all at once but if you can buy quality items such as a good chair and desk and keep them for a long time it totally pays off. I did this with my desk too. The Fit System from Anthr…
Seconded. When I started my business I was sitting on a pretty ordinary Staples cheap-o office chair. Within a year I felt like I was eighty years old -- my back was killing me, especially when standing up or sitting down. It felt like how it must feel to be Grandpa Simpson.
I eventually bit the bullet and bought a better chair (a Steelcase Leap -- see http://thewirecutter.com/reviews/best-office-chair-is-the-st...) for around $850. Man, it hurt to spend that much money on a freaking chair. It felt like ridiculous extravagance. But it wasn't long before my back pains were completely gone.
If you make programming your profession, you're going to be spending most of your life in two pieces of furniture: your bed and your desk chair. There's lots of places where it's OK to cheap out, but don't cheap out on those.