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4.5
12/24/2024 UPDATE -- Still a great desk. NO regrets. It was even more useful than I thought it would be, even though I mostly sit down at it.Now that you can buy a great desk like this in the $200 range, there is no reason not to get one if you're making the world better while riding a desk! (And, thanks Amazon, you got it here a full day before you said you would — and of course notified me that was happening.)ASSEMBLY:I won't lie, lots of parts! But the screw holes were right where they should be, pre-drilled, and mostly easy to screw in. Otherwise, VERY doable. In fact, my wife and able business partner had the new desk mostly assembled after I crashed for a couple hours. It's a big box, by the way, so get someone on the other end of it. The delivery guy had it on one shoulder, but I used a hand cart — it being untold decades since I was 25. And if you wind up with a couple extra screws, don’t worry, they send the screw parts you need and sometimes a couple extra.OPERATION:A cool thing: It takes two presses to make the desk move, you you're chances are close to ZERO of accidentally actuating a desk height change. Otherwise, the 3 custom presets easier to change than the buttons on a car radio, and custom up and down adjustments are in something like .1 in. increments.NOISE:Pretty quiet. I might even be able to move it in a Zoom meeting and it be inaudible to my friends on the other end. (And, yes, I'm going to try it.) I use my PC's default mics, so maybe they'll pick up some vibration transients that I can't feel with my hands.A COOL, UNCOMMON FEATURE:Yeah, it's that funny little shelf underneath. It's well-placed so that you will never bark a shin on it — and I mean never, EVER. I am using it for my "chordage", as I call it. You know, the power and signal lines, and those little transformer thingies for all the peripherals you may use. Maybe I'll store books there later, but for now it is the chord and cable management feature I always wanted on a desk.ONE COOL AND "VALUELESS" THING:It's easier to organize and plug in some cables when you can raise the desk to its full height. Okay, so NOT valueless. And true of all adjustable-height desks. ?STURDINESS:Don't sit on this desk, or any adjustable desk, but this desk is rated at over 150 lbs., so yes, it holds my two monitors, my workstation, all the chordage from my dozen or so peripherals WITH EASE. This desk feels solid and sturdy. No giggling, no wiggling, and it is as solid and rigid as if it was a solid welded assembly and not a practically infinitely variable height working surface. There is no looseness, no hysteresis, no problem at all, and I can't wait to get to work with it.THE REAL SURPRISE:Of course I got to have a good standing location from which to work. But the real unexpected thing was the SITTING POSITION adjustment. No matter how many times I try to keep my posture straight, a slightly-too-low height (my old desk) just kept unconsciously hunching me over. Now, I can adjust the desk to fit me where I am at my optimum posture. And when the work day stretches late into the night, I can raise the table up a couple inches to help "enforce" the posture I want to have. I can even adjust the desk height for the screen I am using most that hour.DURABILITY:Well, that's the question, isn't it. If I can amend this review, I will let you know later. I'm guessing I'll change height about a dozen times a day. I am a SolidWorks designer, and all my peripherals and computer screens and a steaming mug of black coffee don't make the little motor sound any different than when I tested it with the desk empty and bare. If the motor and linkage should ever fail, then I might as well just purchase a new desk.HOWEVER, this thing is such a life upgrade for me that EVEN if it only lasted 2 years, it would still be worth it. That said, I am a mechanical designer, and I listen hard for things not working exactly the way they ought to, and I like this one. SO DON'T BE SURPRISED if in 2 years I comment, "Yep, still going great!" And then the same in 5 years. And, who knows?
