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seven thousand six hundred and fifty

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dollars that's the price of the signature alt workstation how can this

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thing be so expensive and yet have

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nothing but five star reviews online

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even the lone 3 star review says they ended up keeping the thing for an

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employee who suffered from back pain and hey wait a minute this thing's been for

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sale for years and yet outside of the manufacturer's own website there's only

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a single review from anyone even claiming to be an actual user

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this reddit post was made by someone who created their account five days after

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someone else inquired about the signature alt workstation and then they

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were never heard from again

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you guys smell that kind of smells like bs isn't it

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well maybe but then again

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all work was confident enough to send the signature station to me and run the

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risk of me tearing it apart in my review and saying that it's a colossal waste of

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money so why don't we find out if they should have taken the safe route here shall we

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when i said it would take a week or two of daily driver use to properly evaluate

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this thing i couldn't get a single other person on the writing team to take the

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assignment and risk slowing down their work so i begrudgingly cleared some

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space in my office and tasked our new writers with assembling it for me they

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complained the pieces were heavy and that it took about four hours rather

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than the advertised two hours to assemble but reported that otherwise the

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process was fairly straightforward thanks to the combination of written and

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video instructions the one thing that they bunged up was the leveling of the

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keyboard tray all work uses a third screw on the ARM attachment over here to

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compensate for the natural sag of having something this heavy attached to just

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one point on one side it took about 10 minutes for me to fix

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with their video tutorial and then i was good to go initial impressions though

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were not good if you're expecting to just

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dive into this thing and immediately be comfortable you have got another thing

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coming this one's on me but i also didn't realize that there's an included

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magnetic mouse pad and a bunch of little

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adhesive-backed magnets for your peripherals if your keyboard is extra

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heavy by the way you might need to add some kind of like grippy thing to the

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back of these magnets but once the magnets are in place the reclining

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process is a lot less scary i think the

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biggest contributor to that for me was the overall kind of

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wobbliness of the setup like even doing something as simple as typing i'm not

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going crazy here you can see the monitor moving around to be clear i'm not

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criticizing the monitor mount or the you know the workmanship or the quality of

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the materials or whatever this thing is not going anywhere and like

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this is a 32 pound monitor it's a samsung odyssey g9 and everything from

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the height adjustment look at this to the tilt

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actually works perfectly exactly like i'd expect it's just kind of the nature

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of the beast i mean when you build something and you want the user to be

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able to get in and out of it easily see how it opens up like that

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you can't cage them in which means you can't support it on both sides and as

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soon as you have an ARM just on one side there's going to be some

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there's going to be some wibble wobble other than that i didn't have any major

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complaints you got these locking casters down here so it's super easy to roll

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around and reposition as you please and we hooked it up with a desktop and an

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external power bar but if you use a laptop for example and you want all your

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cable management built right into the desk they've got a power bar on the

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storage compartment and cable management routing right back here i haven't shown

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you guys even half of the adjustments yet so out of the box i didn't actually

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realize that this ARM and this ARM were meant to be just kind of like dialed in

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exactly as you see fit so you put this

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perfectly where you want maybe you're more of like a lap typer you tighten

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this knob you tighten this knob i do wish they

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were a bit grippier rather than smooth so it was like you could really wrench

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on them and boom that's it that's how i like to sit that's how i sit if i prefer

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it up higher well guess what that's an option too oop

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oh yeah but wait there's more check out this headrest

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so it's got height adjust like that you just hold on these handles

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and goes forward or back so you can get it exactly where you're most comfortable

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and you can do it without even looking at it so you just be like ah yeah you know what i want my head right there

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there we go okay and then there's the motorized controls one

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annoyance here is that the labels don't make a ton of sense to me the height

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adjust makes sense it's plus and minus okay and then the leg rest thing that's

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arrow up arrow down that makes sense too but the backrest adjust is a plus what's

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plus minus mean in the context of the

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back reclining or coming back up so i think there's a little bit of room for

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improvement there oh man yeah i really i really did not use it in standing desk

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mode very much this is not as good as seated you can really tell

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once this ARM is up there's

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that's a lot more wobble look it's still

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still going the good news is for sitting the foam is nice and firm and i did not

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other than a little bit at the edges because i have kind of a wider booty i

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didn't notice anything other than foam i couldn't feel any of the harder

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materials through the seat and for hours at a time it was perfectly comfortable

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it's time to do it here we go i made some adjustments to my system here so i

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put some electrical tape on the bottom of the keyboard rubber would be better

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but it holds okay and then for the mouse

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i actually grabbed the logitech g703 popped off the little power play thing

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so here i'm just gonna put that back on

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get on there there we go right so now all i got to do

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is i can mouse around and then when i'm done i can dock it like that and pull it

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off yeah yeah i'm sure you could come up with

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something more elegant with a 3d printer or whatever but if you want to work from

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a horizontal position this is pretty much end game i mean once it's all

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dialed in and you're like sitting in your

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zero g battle station like this it's like the you know the wow guy from that

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episode of south park this feels like his final form you can see what i mean

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probably about the monitor wobble not being as bad even in this position

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compared to standing i think standing is the wobbliest but as cool as this looks

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and seems like it would be in theory have you ever been lying in bed watching

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a movie with your significant other you know holding the phone like this and

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thought you know would be great eight consecutive hours of this at the

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office yeah me neither in a matter of four or five

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minutes i could actually feel the blood draining out of my fingers and that's on

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top of the additional difficulty moving the mouse accurately when you're kind of

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fighting gravity one way and being assisted by gravity the other way

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in practice i would never consider using it like this for anything other than

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like you know maybe if i wanted to be that ceo and i like taped my webcam here and

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i'm having a meeting you know and i don't have to take notes or whatever

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because my assistant over there is doing it or something or watching a movie that

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would be pretty sick you know somewhat ironically for a device that's marketed

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as being for work i think its signature feature is

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probably best used for anything other than work like movies or actually gaming

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for that matter i mean not with a keyboard or mouse this would be

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absolutely horrible but with a controller in your lap

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well it reminded me a lot of the world's most comfortable gaming setup project

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that we did but with way better lumbar support there are actually a few things

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about the alt-work signature station that weren't great for office use

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they say it's good for collaborating that's actually in their talking points

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but the demo videos show monitors from like

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five years ago if i'm spending seven grand on this thing i'm putting a proper

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monitor on it and the ergonomics of sharing my screen with a colleague and

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conversing with them frankly were not very good if they added a lockable

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swivel to the base of the chair for example so that i could kind of swivel

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the chair out and talk to somebody that would help a lot but as it was i

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actually ended up with some back discomfort trying to trying to interact

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with anybody next to me there's also the sheer space thankfully unlike their flex

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station this one does come with wheels but you will still need a substantial

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amount of space in your office to accommodate comfortably getting in and

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out of the chair look how long this absolute

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boat of a desk is when you've got it folded out i'm walking here

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okay i mean in the marketing materials they

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go out of their way to shoot pretty much everything in a wide open environment

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and some of them if you look closely are even shot outside and that isn't the

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only thing that they gloss over some of the pictures in their gallery were

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honestly pretty misleading to take this

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picture the adult would have had to have her butt hanging at least halfway off of

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the chair like look at this there is not

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extra space here and there's like this big uncomfortable thing here like what

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i'm i'm sitting like this so i can have someone sitting next to me and this

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marketing video for their new self-leveling coffee cup holder

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conveniently cuts off before the subject actually tries to drink coffee in that

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position without dumping it all over his face come on guys

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nobody is drinking coffee like this okay

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and i don't know maybe i'm just finding things to whine about but at over seven

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thousand dollars i kind of expected to have a handy place

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to tuck my phone i actually had my phone fall out of my back pocket and

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hit the thing like that i expected to have a built-in usb hub for phone

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charging you know or even like a a charging chi spot or something like that

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instead it just feels like alt work has taken the red digital cinema approach of

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well if you can afford this product then you can probably afford the overpriced

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accessories with that said

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there are good things about their approach too i contacted their support

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both as myself and anonymously with a vpn and to their credit the service was

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absolutely on point they even offered to jump on facetime with me to help sort

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out my issue that i didn't actually have our pc manufacturers from the last

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secret shopper could learn a thing or two but in spite of all the good things that

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i've said about it i will not be continuing to daily drive it

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it's possible now that we've worked out the kinks someone internally will want

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to take it off my hands maybe someone who doesn't need quite as much screen or

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desk real estate as i do but i think that that three-star review

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kind of nailed it it is comfortable it's great

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it's just that i as someone who doesn't have any ergonomic special needs was

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already fine with what i had so the bottom line is if you need this you

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already know who you are and if you never felt like this thing should exist

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it's likely that you'd be happier with a more conventional sit stand desk the

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good news is that it looks like they offer a 30 day money back guarantee with

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free return shipping within the continental us so we're going to have it

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Linus if you guys enjoyed this video you might also enjoy um one of our short

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circuit videos unboxing a gaming chair that thing is

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horrendous it was pretty bad this thing's better

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also costs like 10 times as much though