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by heyitsnick
5270 days ago
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I see the same responses in the comments thread of this blog. "$40 worth desk holding gadgets worth $4000? Seriously?" This line of reasoning makes no sense to me. Why does the cost of a desk need to match that of the stuff on it? Are you suggesting this home-made desk is not stable, that it puts the contents of it at risk? Sure looks stable to me. He might be able to justify $2000 on a Macbook Air because there may not be an alternative (depending on his work) or it may be justified with the perceived costs of the device. There's no point spending $800 on a desk if $40 does the job adequately. Cost is only loosely correlated to quality and value. It's the same line of thinking that goes "well you spend a third of your life sleeping so why do you spend only $200 on a mattress?" Perhaps because a cheap bed and mattress is perfectly comfortable for most people. |
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But it seems common to justify extra costs in the electronics because it's a tool for the job so you want the best thing money can buy, while it's also common to go the cheap way for desk and chair. We see the cost of the electronics as a necessary investment, but not for the furniture. At the end of the day, $2k in furniture is not that much.
Sure a dining table works fine to hold my laptop, but it's just adequate. It could be severely improved. To me, this stand-up desk is like programming on a netbook: technically it does the job, but you can spend some extra money to have a much better setup. The thing is that a bad setup furniture-wise will hurt you badly in the long-term.
As far as this particular desk, no it doesn't look quite stable. (also see dmethvin's comment) Plus the ergonomics are bad: the screen needs to be much higher than the desk surface.