The StandDesk was produced by millennials, is marketed directly at millennials, as well as has been gobbled up by millennials in outstanding quantities. While it carries a ten-year service warranty (the lengthiest of any type of Chinese-made base), in this case it’s not always a dependable indication of the anticipated beneficial life of the training columns. But for the price, the StandDesk is a terrific lower-cost alternative to the UpLift, Jarvis and also various other Chinese-made desks. Despite its security problems this is a much better product than the Autonomous SmartDesk or IKEA Bekant could ever before hope to be, as well as a good value on the whole. It’s the mid-priced offering in the wide group of Chinese-made desks that is gaining clients from both its less expensive and also more expensive peers.

StandDesk Construction, Arrangement, and Gadgets

Constructing the desk is rather straight forward if you comply with the thorough instructions. Every one of the screws, bolts, washers, and spring washers been available in different bags that are noted with their location: tabletop, frame, and spares. There’s an included hex device for securing every one of the screws into the structure, or, pop in a hex bit right into your power device– simply take care not to over-tighten.

All of the parts have an excellent quality surface to them with rounded corners to avoid cut hands. Below is a shot of all the screws that are fastened to the leg setting up– it’s not going anywhere!

Standdesk-Leg

The foot setting up additionally consists of height-adjustable turning equipments to support the front-to-back motion of the desk, which was very practical for the carpeted office flooring. I’m likewise making use of a flooring mat to secure the rug from chair wheel damage at resting elevation, as well as press the chair back when I’m transitioning to standing height.

Standdesk-Foot

The luxurious controller was worth the investment. The buttons are all variable stress set, meaning the backwards and forwards arrows will certainly adjust the elevation by 1/10th of an inch with a single press, or continuously adjust the height by around 0.7 inches per second if you hold the button for 2 seconds. The memory switches are similar in style: push to remember the height setup, or hold the button down for five seconds to save a brand-new height worth. I’m utilizing switch 1 for my resting placement and switch 4 for my standing placement, which offers me 2 and also 3 for anything I may need in the future.

Standdesk-Memory-unit

Utilizing my Standdesk

I’ve been making use of the brand-new desk for a few weeks and also have listed my initial impressions:

The motors are quiet however can be listened to in the following area over. It takes perhaps 25 seconds for the desk to fully shift from sitting to standing based on my presets.
I use an Ergotron side-by-side keep track of arm (specifically this LX version), causing the desk to obtain a little rocky when I shift my weight versus the key-board. In hindsight, I need to have bought the bar upgrade for my desk after identifying the weight of my displays. If you plan to do a dual monitor setup, obtain the crossbar.

Because gravity presses the discs in a human spinal column, I need to increase the desk greater in the morning and also reduced it in the evening.

An anti-fatigue floor covering is absolutely essential for long period of time standing. I bought an Octagonal mat from SmartCells, making use of rubber “cells” that are pictured listed below.

Efficiency

Despite any kind of problems I might have had with the mobile phone or the cookie-cutter design, virtually every one of those issues washed away when I actually came down to using this thing.

I really did not believe it was even feasible, the StandDesk in some way manages to be even more secure than the Jarvis, both at sitting and also standing heights. Most days I like to run my Jarvis at max height while pushed versus my wall surface; not necessarily since it’s that wobbly, however just because I desire as much stability as I can get.

The StandDesk one ups the gambit even better, verifying to be equally as stable on its own at standing height as the Jarvis is with wall support. This is all without the company’s crossbar addition, which they declare includes a lot more stability when bought as a part of the package deal.When it comes to weight tolerance, the StandDesk shares yet a lot more stats with the Jarvis, being rated for approximately 350 lbs of weight ability.

I’ve been making use of the desk for about three weeks now for everyday work (and also complying with standing desk ideal methods), whether it’s keying out evaluations like this one from our desktop computer or a laptop periodically. The desk holds up well versus non-coastered beverages, as well as the finish on top of the desk still really feels just as smooth and also slick as the day I opened it in spite of days of perspiring wrists wresting on it and numerous clean downs with a rag.

I never ever purposefully try to dent any type of desks as well hard, throughout some lighter tests (throwing a collection of secrets onto it from a range, for example), it still held up without as well many visible indications of damages.

Lastly, when I measured the sound output of the desk while it climbed from a sitting placement to standing and also back once more, it was without a doubt the quietest we’ve evaluated yet. I could barely get it to make more than about 9.5 dB of noise, so if your most significant problem is the whirr of your electric motor, this is absolutely the one for you.

Customer Service

Currently, usually I do not consist of much about the customer support assistance of any type of provided firm, only because I really feel that as a whole if an item works the way its intended to, I should not ever have a reason to call them in the first place. As well as while I desire I can say that held true throughout my experience with StandDesk, I simply can not finish this evaluation without discussing the various, seemingly endless issues I came across trying to get my workdesk assembled.

For starters, the desk I was sent out really did not have any memory mobile phone included initially, which meant I had no chance of actually controlling the up/down feature on the desk itself. I called StandDesk regarding this problem, that got back to me around a day later on with an apology and an assurance that a new one would be shipped out quickly.

Standdesk testimonial handset

The resource of all our problems …
About four days later on a mobile showed up in the mail. The mobile phone at first turned on, but it had not been long before I noticed that none of the programmable buttons functioned, neither did the down switch, but for some factor the “memory” button took care of the down function just great. I contacted the business once again, and also they excused the mixup and said they would certainly have a brand-new panel and also control box out to me within the week.

Over 2 weeks later on my brand-new panel as well as control box got here. Once I installed them both the desk finally began functioning the way it was meant to, however not after virtually a month of waiting and also backward and forward with a firm that couldn’t keep in mind to deliver a core part of their item inside the same box from the start.

Points to Think about

In spite of its bankable attributes, this stand up workdesk also has its own drawbacks. Because no particular stand workdesk could catch all of the attributes that you might require, you may take into consideration these in your decision-making.

Absence of a Crossbar as criterion

Not having a maintaining crossbar is definitely not a deal-breaker, especially considering some of our various other favorite workdesks such as the Totally Jarvis additionally do not have one. This workdesk does have one if you want, yet it is a paid add-on (more on this later too).

The bar is seen by some as a hindrance, making it more challenging to position your legs pleasantly below the desk. Others, on the other hand, discover that they give included security, commonly critical when desks are fully expanded.

We have not check out any type of complaints of the security of this workdesk, so we do not believe its something to truly be concerned concerning, although if you actually wanted a desk with a bar then we suggest you take a look at the Varidesk ProDesk 60 Electric.

Alternatively, StandDesk does supply a separate add-on bar that you can contribute to the desk yourself, just for an added $49.95.

Stability

The stability of a standing desk is one of one of the most essential elements of these desks. Without a stable workdesk you’ll find it hard to concentrate, which can cause you coming to be much less interested in utilizing the desk at standing height. To obtain the most effective return on your financial investment, you’ll want to enjoy when utilizing the desk.

Since the StandDesk Simple is the very first workdesk that I have examined with an optional cross assistance, I will certainly break down my stability tests right into two sections. Both examinations will certainly include the common front to back shaking examination and an entrusted to best wobble. The first will be without the cross assistance and the second will be with it. Simply to note, StandDesk.co states that the addition of the cross assistance can increase stability by as much as 15%. I have no concept how they developed that number.

Without Cross Support

Left to Right: The wobble examination was a various scenario. StandDesk Simple was the second desk that I checked that tottered at the bottom with weight on the desktop. The first was the IKEA Bekant. By the time it got to 36″ the shaking movement was bad. Yet point it would certainly influence your job.

With Cross Support

Front to Back: Adding the cross assistance does not affect the rocking activity. The StandDesk Simple started to experienced a rocking motion at 36″. By 41″ the shaking activity misbehaved.

Entrusted to Right: Adding the cross assistance to the StandDesk boosted the wobble motion for reduced heights. With the cross support the wobble movement really did not start till you got to 35″. By 39″ the wobble movement ended up being negative.

Note: It’s really crucial with flexible standing desks to fully tighten all equipment. If there is hardware that is not completely tight, the motion experienced when reached standing elevation will certainly be overemphasized. This is particularly true with a workdesk frame that consists of 32 screws, there are far too many factors at which the desk has a possibility to move.

Verdict

Like all the Chinese bases we’ve checked in our laboratories, we have to narrow our recommendation on the StandDesk Pro to shorter customers with narrower desktop computers, as the security simply isn’t there for a big mass raised high off the ground. American-made workdesks will be better suited to these applications, and also for a relatively obvious factor. Basically all American-made bases are made in United States manufacturing facilities that are had by Swedish, Danish or German companies that created this industry, and also their typical people are a great deal taller than the ordinary Asian consumer, so they started making longer-stroke training legs a long period of time ago. And also they have far more robot automation, laser-cutting equipment, and large experience making standing workdesk bases, needless to say.

But if you’re not as well high, don’t have an extreme quantity of hefty devices on your desktop, and don’t need as well wide of a workdesk, the StandDesk Pro will certainly provide you excellent bang for your buck.

All that could change with Yu’s guaranteed StandDesk Pro 2.0 style that he expects to release sometime in the future. Originally we were informed we ‘d see it by June 2018. More than a year later it has yet to materialize, and Yu states he’s had difficulty obtaining the product quality he needs out of several Chinese manufacturing facilities he’s attempted working with. The new layout is supposedly mosting likely to be a lot easier to assemble as well as have a heftier bar style, to name a few improvements. He says the new base will certainly be supplied in both a “T-Leg” and also “C-Leg” arrangement, alleviating our issue regarding side-load stressing on the training columns.

If this brand-new base ever comes to market we’ll update you below. However we’re not holding our breath any type of longer as the most recent information on the business is that Yu closed the little Los Angeles workplace as well as has relocated it to join with all its other employees in southeast Asia.

In the meantime, a new $399 standing workdesk with outstanding performance has actually been present via the brand-new joint endeavor in between US-based iMovR and China-based Eureka, the i1 electric standing desk. While limited in size and shade alternatives, it has actually taken the mantle away from StandDesk’s long-ago standing as the very best standing desk under $400.

The StandDesk was produced by millennials, is marketed directly at millennials, and also has actually been gobbled up by millennials in impressive volumes. While it carries a ten-year service warranty (the lengthiest of any kind of Chinese-made base), in this case it’s not always a dependable sign of the expected helpful life of the lifting columns. But also for the price, the StandDesk is a fantastic lower-cost option to the UpLift, Jarvis and also various other Chinese-made workdesks. Regardless of its stability problems this is a far better product than the Autonomous SmartDesk or IKEA Bekant could ever wish to be, and a good value in general. It’s the mid-priced offering in the wide category of Chinese-made desks that is gaining customers from both its cheaper and also pricier peers.

StandDesk Building, Configuration, and also Gizmos

Developing the desk is pretty easy if you follow the comprehensive guidelines. Every one of the screws, screws, washers, and also springtime washing machines come in separate bags that are noted with their destination: tabletop, framework, and spares. There’s a consisted of hex tool for securing all of the screws into the framework, or, appear a hex bit into your power device– simply be careful not to over-tighten.

Every one of the components have an excellent quality finish to them with rounded corners to prevent cut hands. Below is a shot of all the screws that are attached to the leg setting up– it’s not going anywhere!

Standdesk-Leg

The foot assembly likewise includes height-adjustable turning gears to support the front-to-back activity of the desk, which was very useful for the carpeted office floor. I’m likewise making use of a floor mat to secure the rug from chair wheel damage at sitting height, and also push the chair when I’m transitioning to standing height.

Standdesk-Foot

The deluxe controller was worth the investment. The switches are all variable pressure programmed, suggesting the backwards and forwards arrows will certainly change the elevation by 1/10th of an inch with a solitary press, or constantly readjust the elevation by around 0.7 inches per 2nd if you hold the button for 2 secs. The memory switches are comparable in style: push to remember the height setup, or hold the button down for five secs to store a new elevation value. I’m using button 1 for my resting position and also button 4 for my standing placement, which provides me 2 and also 3 for anything I might need in the future.

Standdesk-Memory-unit

Utilizing my Standdesk

I have actually been using the new desk for a couple of weeks and have written down my first perceptions:

The motors are quiet however can be heard in the following room over. It takes possibly 25 secs for the desk to completely shift from resting to standing based on my presets.
I utilize an Ergotron side-by-side keep track of arm (particularly this LX version), creating the desk to obtain a little rocky when I shift my weight versus the keyboard. In hindsight, I must have bought the bar upgrade for my desk after identifying the weight of my displays. If you intend to do a dual screen arrangement, get the crossbar.

Due to the fact that gravity presses the discs in a human back, I need to raise the desk greater in the early morning and also reduced it at night.

An anti-fatigue floor covering is definitely crucial for long duration standing. I acquired an Octagonal mat from SmartCells, using rubber “cells” that are envisioned below.

Performance

In spite of any kind of problems I might have had with the phone or the cookie-cutter design, basically every one of those issues gotten rid of when I in fact got down to using this thing.

I didn’t believe it was also possible, the StandDesk somehow handles to be also a lot more stable than the Jarvis, both at sitting as well as standing elevations. Many days I such as to run my Jarvis at max elevation while pushed versus my wall; not always because it’s that shaky, however even if I desire as much stability as I can obtain.

The StandDesk one ups the gambit also further, verifying to be just as constant by itself at standing elevation as the Jarvis is with wall support. This is all without the business’s crossbar enhancement, which they assert adds a lot more security when acquired as a part of the bundle deal.When it pertains to weight resistance, the StandDesk shares yet a lot more stats with the Jarvis, being ranked for approximately 350 lbs of weight capacity.

I’ve been utilizing the desk for about 3 weeks now for day-to-day job (and following standing workdesk best techniques), whether it’s typing out evaluations like this one from our desktop or a laptop every so often. The desk stands up well against non-coastered drinks, as well as the coating in addition to the desk still really feels equally as smooth as well as glossy as the day I opened it despite days of perspiring wrists wresting on it as well as multiple clean downs with a cloth.

I never ever deliberately attempt to dent any type of desks also hard, during some lighter examinations (throwing a set of tricks onto it from a range, for instance), it still held up without too numerous noticeable signs of damages.

When I measured the noise outcome of the workdesk while it increased from a resting position to standing and back again, it was by much the quietest we’ve evaluated. I might hardly get it to make more than concerning 9.5 dB of noise, so if your most significant worry is the whirr of your motor, this is certainly the one for you.

Client service

Now, usually I do not consist of much about the customer care assistance of any provided company, only since I feel that as a whole if a product functions the method its supposed to, I shouldn’t ever before have a reason to call them in the first place. And while I wish I can say that held true throughout my experience with StandDesk, I merely can’t finish this evaluation without stating the various, seemingly endless troubles I experienced trying to obtain my desk put together.

For beginners, the desk I was sent didn’t have any type of memory mobile included initially, which implied I had no chance of in fact regulating the up/down feature on the desk itself. I called StandDesk regarding this concern, who got back to me around a day later on with an apology and also a pledge that a new one would be shipped quickly.

Standdesk evaluation handset

The source of all our troubles …
Concerning four days later on a mobile phone showed up in the mail. The mobile phone at first switched on, but it had not been long prior to I discovered that none of the programmable switches worked, neither did the down button, but also for some factor the “memory” switch handled the down feature simply fine. I spoke to the company once more, and they apologized for the mixup and also said they would certainly have a new panel as well as control box bent on me within the week.

Over 2 weeks later my new panel as well as control box showed up. As soon as I mounted them both the desk ultimately started functioning the way it was supposed to, yet not after virtually a month of waiting and back and forth with a company that could not keep in mind to deliver a core component of their item inside the very same box from the start.

Points to Think about

Despite its bankable features, this stand desk likewise has its own drawbacks. Since no particular stand desk could record every one of the attributes that you may require, you might consider these in your decision-making.

Absence of a Crossbar as requirement

Not having a supporting bar is absolutely not a deal-breaker, particularly taking into consideration a few of our other preferred workdesks such as the Completely Jarvis likewise don’t have one. In fact, this workdesk does have one if you desire, however it is a paid add-on (a lot more on this later as well).

The crossbar is seen by some as a barrier, making it more difficult to put your legs easily listed below the desk. Others, on the other hand, locate that they give included security, frequently crucial when desks are totally expanded.

We have not review any type of problems of the security of this desk, so we don’t believe its something to actually be concerned concerning, although if you actually desired a desk with a crossbar after that we suggest you have a look at the Varidesk ProDesk 60 Electric.

StandDesk does use a different add-on bar that you can add to the workdesk on your own, just for an extra $49.95.

Security

The security of a standing workdesk is among the most crucial aspects of these workdesks. Without a steady desk you’ll locate it tough to focus, which can bring about you ending up being less interested in using the desk at standing elevation. To get the best return on your financial investment, you’ll want to enjoy when making use of the desk.

Because the StandDesk Simple is the very first workdesk that I have actually checked with an optional cross support, I will break down my stability examinations into 2 areas. Both examinations will include the typical front to back shaking test and also a left to best wobble. The first will lack the cross assistance and also the second will certainly be with it. Simply to note, StandDesk.co claims that the addition of the cross support can enhance stability by as much as 15%. I have no idea just how they came up with that number.

Without Cross Support

Left to Right: The wobble examination was a various scenario. StandDesk Simple was the 2nd workdesk that I examined that tottered at the bottom with weight on the desktop computer. The very first was the IKEA Bekant. By the time it reached 36″ the rocking movement misbehaved. Yet point it would influence your job.

With Cross Support

Front to Back: Including the cross assistance does not impact the shaking activity. The StandDesk Simple started to experienced a shaking movement at 36″. By 41″ the rocking movement misbehaved.

Left to Right: Including the cross assistance to the StandDesk improved the wobble activity for lower elevations. With the cross support the wobble movement really did not begin up until you got to 35″. By 39″ the wobble activity ended up being bad.

Keep in mind: It’s extremely essential with flexible standing desks to totally tighten up all hardware. If there is equipment that is not entirely tight, the activity experienced when encompassed standing elevation will certainly be overemphasized. This is particularly true with a desk framework that consists of 32 screws, there are far too many points at which the desk has a chance to relocate.

Final thought

Like all the Chinese bases we have actually evaluated in our labs, we need to tighten our recommendation on the StandDesk Pro to shorter individuals with narrower desktops, as the stability just isn’t there for a large mass boosted high off the ground. American-made desks will certainly be much better fit to these applications, and for a rather obvious factor. Essentially all American-made bases are made in US manufacturing facilities that are owned by Swedish, Danish or German firms that developed this industry, as well as their average people are a lot taller than the ordinary Asian customer, so they began making longer-stroke lifting legs a very long time back. And they have much more robotic automation, laser-cutting tools, and also large experience making standing workdesk bases, needless to say.

If you’re not also tall, don’t have an extreme amount of heavy equipment on your desktop, as well as don’t require also vast of a workdesk, the StandDesk Pro will certainly offer you excellent bang for your buck.

All that might alter with Yu’s guaranteed StandDesk Pro 2.0 layout that he expects to launch at some time in the future. Originally we were informed we ‘d see it by June 2018. Greater than a year later it has yet to appear, as well as Yu states he’s had problem getting the product top quality he requires out of a number of Chinese manufacturing facilities he’s attempted collaborating with. The brand-new layout is supposedly mosting likely to be much easier to assemble and also have a heftier crossbar design, among other refinements. He claims the brand-new base will certainly be offered in both a “T-Leg” and “C-Leg” arrangement, easing our concern regarding side-load worrying on the lifting columns.

If this new base ever before concerns market we’ll upgrade you here. However we’re not holding our breath any kind of longer as one of the most recent information on the firm is that Yu shut the little Los Angeles office and has moved it to accompany all its other staff members in southeast Asia.

In the meantime, a brand-new $399 standing desk with impressive efficiency has been introduce through the brand-new joint endeavor between US-based iMovR and China-based Eureka, the i1 electric standing workdesk. While limited in dimension as well as shade choices, it has actually taken the mantle far from StandDesk’s long-ago standing as the very best standing desk under $400.