[Timothee]

I'm not saying the price of the furniture should match the price of what's on it. That wouldn't make sense.

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.