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Ikea has recently begun offering a pair of electrically adjusting sit/stand desks: http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/S19022530/ http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/S49022270/
Ikea has recently begun offering a pair of electrically adjusting sit/stand desks: http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/S19022530/ http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/S49022270/
Holy shit. That's amazing. I use a Geekdesk ( http://jseliger.wordpress.com/2012/09/23/the-geekdesk-writin... ) and it cost twice as much. Is it twice as good? Maybe. But even something that's not as good but half the price will be within range of MANY more people. One question: do the Ikea versions remember their heights? That to me is a killer feature, because trying to figure out the "right" spot every time a desk…
Personally, I don't miss that at all. In fact, I think the variation is good for my back, I often move my table up and down little bits while sitting or standing, just because I change my posture.
Ikea has recently begun offering a pair of electrically adjusting sit/stand desks: http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/S19022530/ http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/S49022270/
I'm using a non-motorized adjustable standing desk at work, and love it for the quick adjustablility. All motorized standing desk seems to be frustratingly slow, and I imagine this is by design to offer better safety. Does anyone know of a good non motorized standing desk at a similar or lower price?
Ikea has recently begun offering a pair of electrically adjusting sit/stand desks: http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/S19022530/ http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/S49022270/
They're ~$500 and ~$600... Anyone know where I can get a standing desk (don't care if it's adjustable) that isn't insanely expensive?
Not adjustable unless you take all your stuff off it, but a whole lot cheaper.
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Holy shit. That's amazing. I use a Geekdesk ( http://jseliger.wordpress.com/2012/09/23/the-geekdesk-writin... ) and it cost twice as much. Is it twice as good? Maybe. But even something that's not as good but half the price will be within range of MANY more people. One question: do the Ikea versions remember their heights? That to me is a killer feature, because trying to figure out the "right" spot every time a desk…
I'm having a tough time tracking down anybody saying it does, in fact, have memory functionality. That's certainly a feature you'd want to advertise, so it seems reasonable to assume that it doesn't have that particular feature.
Ikea has recently begun offering a pair of electrically adjusting sit/stand desks: http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/S19022530/ http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/S49022270/
Holy shit. That's amazing. I use a Geekdesk ( http://jseliger.wordpress.com/2012/09/23/the-geekdesk-writin... ) and it cost twice as much. Is it twice as good? Maybe. But even something that's not as good but half the price will be within range of MANY more people. One question: do the Ikea versions remember their heights? That to me is a killer feature, because trying to figure out the "right" spot every time a desk…
No. Source: friend bought one yesterday.
Ikea has recently begun offering a pair of electrically adjusting sit/stand desks: http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/S19022530/ http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/S49022270/
They're ~$500 and ~$600... Anyone know where I can get a standing desk (don't care if it's adjustable) that isn't insanely expensive?
A quick search here shows small standing height units for as little as 250UKP including VAT and motorised ones for ~500UKP - so I expect you'll find some fixed height examples available in your state in the $250 range (assuming that prices follow the 1UKP->1USD pattern seen in what I pay for electronics and similar goods rather than the actual exchange rate which is currently closer to 1UKP->1.6USD - that may be an ill-informed assumption).
Another option for home if you have the skills (or friends that do!) is to make one. Before I got the free desk we were going to take the tools to breakfast bar furniture (which a friend had going spare after some renovations and which legs of the right sort of height) and install it in that corner of the home office.
It turns out that I was finishing/understanding my work early and getting bored.
I think that the standing desk with bar stool combination that someone else mentioned would be a great idea for schools!
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I don't know why the GP poster is being downvoted. For most of the world's population, $500 is not cheap. I find it difficult to categorize the desk, a tool for productivity, as a luxury. I know that's just personal bias speaking, though. The market supplies alternatives of varying degrees of quality, functionality, and design for ordinary desks. I wish there was equal demand for standing desks. Nothing ever seems to…
For $100k/year workers (the main HN audience), it's cheap. Especially considering it, along with a chair and a computer, is by far the most important tools for said audience.
So you don't believe the tale that the primary audience for Hacker News are actually working on startups?
If someone can't afford US$500, they can make a desk out of a plank of wood on top of some bricks or old furniture. A standup desk is a minor modification. One can then put a bunk bed for sleeping above the desk, and thus share the room with co-founders. Co-founders can then take turns sleeping in the car.