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Humanscale Float desk https://www.humanscale.com/products/standing-desks/float-table which is a mechanical sit-stand desk
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MODELS START AT $1749
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We paid ~£250 for our Flexispot EC1 with a 140x70cm worktop. It's not silent but it goes from my sit to stand height in about 15 seconds and isn't that noisy, it's trivial to hit mute for 15 seconds whilst it's lifting.
The manual Flexispot desk is probably near silent but you won't be hand cranking 40kg of desk/legs, desktop, monitor(s), monitor arm(s), laptop, keyboard, lights/etc up by 30cm by hand in a few seconds.
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Yeah... but hand-cranking means I'd never do it.
Electronics means the desk comes with higher fragility and I'm not ready for a desk to need a firmware upgrade, and the ability to service/maintain is reduced... so it's not just speed and noise, it's also whether I want to own and live with a desk with electrics in it.
Whereas the float is a counterbalance and spring, and it moves quickly and silently. No electrics, no motors, just a simple mechanism.
Their promo video covers the basics https://s3.amazonaws.com/humanscalemedia/float-product-video-2018.mp4 but you can just go to John Lewis and see them in action there as many of the larger stores have them.
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Can someone let me know when the rip-off versions of this at 1/3 the price are released? Thanks.
Actually I do really like their bins so maybe I can treat myself, given my desk is currently outside drying.
Velocio
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I'm starting a process of kitting out a small box bedroom as an office space and figure I should document some of it.
I'm spending about £3k in total for full shelving system, cupboards, sit-stand desk, new mounts for monitor|camera|lights|mic, lighting, and the painting and DIY needed.
So far... sold the bikes I didn't use that were in the room, and this is how this work is being funded too. 4 bikes sold, and the budget is pretty much the value of the bikes sold so this isn't touching savings or disposable income... just needed me to be honest about which bikes I was not using (a Brompton, a mountain bike, a track bike, and a smaller audax bike).
The shopping list is roughly:
Goals are a fully sit stand environment with a clear desk. The sit-stand should be able to be executed in seconds, and silently. The shelving will create a backdrop and enable me to move books from my front room as I need that space for other things.
As I buy the things, do the work, and set it up I'll document major milestones here.