The only real/ergonomic solutions are these:
http://www.ergotron.com/portals/0/html/exploreWorkFitAll/mat...
I use the WorkFit-C for about 10 years now and I can tell you: With this one, the standing desk discussion is over!
Affordable adjustable standing desk
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#32We have a crank standing desks at work. Everyone has the same pattern. Once they crank it up, they stay standing for days. And once it gets cranked down, they sit for days. I'd love to have this motorized option. I was surprised at the shape of the desk. Anyone care to speculate as to why they didn't go with a plain rectangle shape? I'm a big fan of the plain rectangle, not sure I want to spend $500 on something else…
We've got electric motor ones in the new office I moved to recently. It is quite nice to switch back and forth throughout the day. 2 or 3 days per week, I will move to standing 2-3 times for 30-45 minutes. The other days I'm seated the whole day, but those seem to be the days that I'm moving to and from meetings.
Generally, I would say that 75% of people stay sitting most of the time, 15% will stand for about an hour per week, and the last 10% (including myself), stand fairly regularly.
I particularly like to raise it when I have others visiting my desk, it is nice to have everyone on the same level (literally, then hopefully figuratively).
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#33We have a crank standing desks at work. Everyone has the same pattern. Once they crank it up, they stay standing for days. And once it gets cranked down, they sit for days. I'd love to have this motorized option. I was surprised at the shape of the desk. Anyone care to speculate as to why they didn't go with a plain rectangle shape? I'm a big fan of the plain rectangle, not sure I want to spend $500 on something else…
A motor is a lot better than a crank but still a little tedious. Make sure you can hit the button once, do something else for a minute, then come back to find the desk at the right height.
My favorite so far are the pneumatic/spring desks. Someone walks into your office, two seconds later you're standing side-by-side pointing at things. When you're done, it's just as easy to go back down.
There's still a lot of room for improvement though, no matter which desk you end up with.
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#34Cool, but why not buy a tall stool or drafting chair that matches the height of the desk instead of figuring out all these convoluted ways to lower the entire desk? The whole idea is to sit less, so it shouldn't matter very much how comfortable your chair is. I use an $85 stool with my standing desk (the bare-bones kind you'd see in high school science classrooms), and I prefer it over any of the $300+ office chairs…
I would like to agree. My Yankee sensibility tells me I don't have to spend hundreds of dollars when the goal is simply to stand up at my desk. For the few times I need to sit I can use a stool as you suggest. That said, I've been sitting at desks for decades. I'm a little reluctant to buy or build a high desk with the assumption that I will be able to stand at it all day and be productive. The adjustable desks give…
It's surprisingly cheap/easy to put the whole thing together with things from Amazon and IKEA. For example:
4x Olov 36" legs [1] = $60
1x Linnmon 47" x 24" table top [2] = $20
whatever small shelf will fit your monitor(s) = $20
1x Adjustable Stool [3] = $85
Total = $185
[1] http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/30264301/
[2] http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/00251343/
[3] http://www.amazon.com/National-Public-Seating-6424HB-Upholst...
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#35Someone should do a skit with people throwing Aerons into dumpsters.
Frame: http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/10117561/ + whatever table top you want: http://www.ikea.com/us/en/search/?query=table+top + bed risers if you're 6' or over.
Hard to break $200. These are geek sexier and some are adjustable: http://www.simplifiedbuilding.com/projects/category/furnitur...
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#36Cool, but why not buy a tall stool or drafting chair that matches the height of the desk instead of figuring out all these convoluted ways to lower the entire desk? The whole idea is to sit less, so it shouldn't matter very much how comfortable your chair is. I use an $85 stool with my standing desk (the bare-bones kind you'd see in high school science classrooms), and I prefer it over any of the $300+ office chairs…
My mind just went "Wat?! Just buy a buy a bar chair and don't spend 400-600$ for high-tech table?". Some part of me now hates you :) . Thanks for the idea.
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#37Wait... IKEA??? $489??? SOLD!!! Don't even need to know anything more... SHIP IT!!!
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#38$489 is a mere $10 cheaper than the electric, fully adjustable desk I bought over a year ago. http://www.scandinaviandesigns.com/office/desks/network-plus...
Mine was $499, and is made of slightly better materials than the average ikea desk (i've owned plenty of those, nothing wrong with them).
Guess SD should have been advertising them on Apartment Therapy!
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#39The "Wall bureau" is pretty neat too. So neat that it's the Royal Ontario Museum's collection...
http://www.andrewjonesdesign.com/f-wallbureau.html
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#40Last time I looked at getting a standing desk for my office at home, I decided it'd be cheaper to get a third monitor and a second keyboard and mouse. They would go on a permanently-standing-height desk next to my regular desk. In linux you can reconfigure displays using the `xrandr` command. A keyboard shortcut would then toggle between the two desks.
So I assume you also have a 2nd set of keyboard/mouse with the standing monitor? Regardless, I would much prefer having all three monitors on a large rising/lowering platform.
I don't think $500 breaks the bank here - it's an expensable item, costs less than a high-end smartphone, and probably has much better ROI.