I wasn't really sure how to tackle this video initially I mean a desk is a very
subjective thing and whether you like one or not can depend on a wide variety
of different factors is it aesthetically pleasing to you are its features
beneficial to you on a day-to-day basis is the bloody thing even comfortable to
use these are all questions that can only be answered individually
fortunately I have an entire team of people that have been using power up and
squared up motorized up desks as their daily drivers since anthology creative
was kind enough to provide us with enough for my editors and Hardware
testing team So the plan is to mix in
some of their Impressions with my own and present them as a group so here we
go the master case 5 by Cooler Master gives you the freedom to truly make your
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out the link in the video description to learn more I'm not a fan of covering
products that make claims about improving your health while you do
absolutely nothing to change your lifestyle and the offers that I've
received to review things like the ab burner 2000 or whatever go straight in
the email junk bin where they belong standing desks are a little bit
different number one they don't claim that you won't have to do anything they
acknowledge UPF front that you will have to get off your butt and stand up number
two and I'll lean on the Mayo Clinic specifically here but they're not the
only reputable source of this information sitting for long periods of
time has been linked remember this means correlation not causation and they're
not the same thing to a fairly wide variety of health concerns including
obesity increased blood pressure high blood sugar abnormal cholesterol levels
and even cardiovascular disease and three it is also well established at
this point that doing pretty much anything but sitting helps so while the
best thing to do is move around even at a leisurely Pace periodically throughout
the day pacing while on the phone is a good habit to get into if you must be at
your desk constantly then standing up is better than nothing so with that out of
the way let's take a tour of the up desk mine is the series 3 power up in the
large size to accommodate my ultrawide monitor and Aquarium PC but there are a
variety of sizes and finishes with medium being the best choice for most
people something I guess Anthology creative knows since it's the only
available size in some of the funky non-standard top colors not that I'm
bitter I couldn't get the purple polka doted one okay maybe I am a little
bitter so moving around to the top we find the regrettably plain black top
that is well it's plain and black I'm honestly not really sure what to say
about this but it's 1 and a/4 in thick and has a nicely finished laminate
surface the only really notable thing about the top surface is the gently
curved user side this is something I and
most of my team like I put my laptop to my left and stuff I need Within Reach to
my right but that Teran wishes was straight since the recess puts him a
little closer to his monitors than he'd like unfortunately up desk doesn't have
anything perfectly rectangular or a little bit deeper the good news here is
that if you really wanted to swap out the tabletop it would be as simple as
finding a surface you like and screwing everything else into it the input module
that handles up down saving and recalling your three preset Heights and
displaying the current height in inches is the only thing that would likely need
to move and the cable it comes with is long enough that it should work with any
tabletop that's under the 375 lb capacity of the base unit anyway since
we're down here this is probably a good time to look at the rest of the underbelly of this Beast I've done some
custom Cable Management here the USB powerhub AC power strip and a power
brick for my monitor and and laptop were added but the J channel management runs
come with the desk as does the large power input and controller module in the
middle this piece takes input from the user and drives the motors that each
telescoping support leg is equipped with this implementation of the motors is
aside from the ability to save and recall height presets the biggest
difference for me between the up desk and the less expensive vert desks that
we've used in the past not only is the action smoother and quieter but the legs
themselves are much less wobbly in spite of the heavier load of the stock
tabletop and because they don't have a drive shaft that connects to both sides
with a motor in the middle the assembly process is much simpler you can actually
see here how long it took for me to assemble a vert desk compared to about
half an hour for an up desk not to mention that the shaft is impossible to
pop out on its own requiring about an hour for me and Luke to figure out
what's going on and repair it true story # blame Brandon on the subject of
wobbliness there's zero that I can perceive at my sitting height but at my
standing height I did not notice it while using the mouse and using keyboard
shortcuts but I did notice it while typing I can say that I'm using an
extremely heavy monitor which does exacerbate the issue of monitor wobble
so it's got that going for it but it was
there one thing I can't make any excuses for though is the Android app to remind you
to sit down and stand up at regular intervals frankly it's terrible the
basic functionality actually works but non-ex Savvy users like my mom would get
instantly frustrated by tapping on a field having it bring up a value
selector and then just not filling the field out even though it did actually
end up working once I got it configured even though I was Flying Blind
apparently the iOS one is better but I'm not on the iPhone right now and I didn't
use it anyway since there are many third-party standup or break reminder
applications out there including ones that run on your PC so I don't have to
be bothered about it when I'm not actually even at my computer anyway so
conclusion time if the point is to achieve the health benefits of standing
then there are definitely cheaper fully motorized desk options like the vert
desk that I have firsthand experience with and the Ikea beant or beant or
however they pronounce that it means friend apparently that I unfortunately
do not and there are even Bolton like workstation jobbies from companies like
ergotron and Anthology creative themselves but the solid build quality
extremely wide range of movement that allows everyone from me to Luke to
adjust to the perfect working height regardless of our body proportions and
the added creature comfort of being able to pre-program Heights has made us
extremely happy happy with these ones they can apparently even accommodate a
treadmill under them if you're into that sort of thing but I'm hoping that my
staff will be happy enough that they have standing desks and enough space in
the middle of the room to stash their chairs and won't ask for that yet for
now speaking of things that might make sense to ask for what about a mobile
carrier that you could pick up a phone and call and there would actually be
okay this is like someone else having a phone on and I know phones don't look
like this anymore anyway the point is ting.com you pick them up you don't talk
to a robot you get put through directly to a person you pay only for what you
use with the average Ting Bill coming in at about $24 a month per device and if
you're stuck in a contract and switched to Ting they'll cover 25% of your
cancellation fee up to $75 and you might be saying hold on a second L what do you
mean the average bill is approximately blah blah blah well you pay only for
what you use so head over to listing.com and use their savings calculator to find
out how much you would likely pay so you basically put in your last few bills and
then you enter how much you used your stuff and then it goes oh well you know
hey you're actually a pretty light user you're using a plan that doesn't make any sense for you why don't you pay for
just what you use see that's a concept it's coming back again so it basically
goes yeah you'd be a good Ting candidate or no you wouldn't they're completely
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