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Tatsujin:
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--- Quote from: kureshii on October 19, 2009, 11:22:12 PM ---
--- Quote from: Tatsujin on October 19, 2009, 10:12:39 PM ---How come they're charging so much for this? It's like couple pieces of wood and standards and that's it ...
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It's not made from the same cheap fibreboard that graces their line of cheap tables (VIKA, EXPEDIT, MIKAEL etc). This is solid wood, and there's a metal frame below the table to which the legs attach.
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It does seem the American prices are EUROx2. I think my desk was around 200-300 EUR, well worth it I can tell you. And the are 'cheap' compared to other Office-quality solutions I've seen.
The wood is high quality wood, treated with an anti-scratch layer, very smooth and easy to clean surface. I eat my breakfast in front of my PC daily and the wood is barely scratched from all the times I banged my bowl of cereal on the surface.
I got this desk because I was fed up with low quality wooden desks. The frame is made from metal so it's a lot more compact that anything you can do with wood, and no problems with sagging which I used to have to (that Mother-off-all-plasma's of yours wont work though I think ..).
Another advantage of a system like this is the you can expand it with extensions at any given time and you've got a uniform surface. Depending on which side of the angle-board you extend you either get a depth of 80cm or 60cm. I totally went for 80cm (most desks are 60cm) because then you finally have room enough for your monitor(s).
I should add that I tend to like minimalistic design, no frills. From the pictures I see that your furniture has lots of frills.
I chose to put my desk in front of the window because other solutions would either make the light come from the side or from the back and that can leave a nasty glint.
I have a luxaflex system so I can very easily tone the amount of light that gets into my room.
On a side note, IKEA also sells cable gutters that you can screw into the bottom of your desk to work away all the cables, or at least prevent you from accidentally stepping on/pulling a cable with your feet.
--Jarudin--
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Yea, yes. the cable part is killing me. I shoved them all in one side which is somewhat bad but I insured to not put anything there. I couldn't find any solutions until I saw your desk and, you know ... 1st sight fall in love >_>;; So I want something like yours.
Your saying plasma TV, which should weight about 100 pounds, would be a bit too much? If so I may need to keep that desk you see with my HDTV for it. Believe it or not, I have moved my room around about 4 times in total! And I have placed this computer desk against the window twice. So far this is the best setup for me until I get something like yours then I'll have the long edge against the window with my monitors placed against it and the smaller edge will have the plasma TV. I may honestly just get a one piece edge and use that shorter desk with the HDTV on it as a stand for my plasma ... and PS3 of course, it's a 60g one -laughs evilly-
Alright thanks.
kureshii:
I've got one of them cable-management thingums from Ikea, just look under my table in the pic I posted above ^_~
Works like a charm, and is quite easy to set up too.
As solid as the GALANT feels, I don't think it's going to hold up well in the long-term supporting a 100-pound plasma (it's not designed for the purpose anyway). IIRC Ikea rates it for up to a weight of 30kg, which means the plasma is a no-go.
If there's cheap furniture where you are, I think a short TV cabinet would be more appropriately built for the task.
--- Quote from: fohfoh on October 19, 2009, 04:44:15 AM ---In all honesty though, 3x 22" monitors is a LOT of head turning. That's like, what? 5 feet 6 inches of monitors? Or did I fail maths?
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Actually I have been thinking about a third monitor (not so soon though); 2 side by side, and 1 higher up, in a sort of Triforce of Power arrangement. Bottom 2 will be held up by dual LCD arms, the top one will be mounted on an LCD-mounting pole.
Sounds like overkill, but I have been in quite a few circumstances where I felt a 3rd monitor would be useful; when running simulations or renders that take hours to complete, or hashing files in AOM/re-encoding lossless audio, I like to put them aside to monitor them, but often run out of space on the 24". At the same time throw in a multi-tabbed browsing session and some documents, and that is already enough to fill 2 monitors (a 24" can practically only fit 4 browser windows, any more than that and it becomes uncomfortable to read). This is where monitor #3 would be really handy. It doesn't need to be a 24", even a small 15" would be just fine, and I won't need it to have jaw-dropping image quality either so any old TFT LCD would be good enough.
Why do I need so many browser windows open simultaneously? Until the day I can quickly extract relevant information from 2 different websites/applications and put them side-by-side on the same screen with a few hand gestures, I'll stick to the multi-window approach. (Thank god for Chrome's separate process implementation that allows easy splitting of windows. I know Firefox can do it as well, it's just not as fast or seamless.)
Of course, such dreams must wait until I have the budget for it... and I'll probably need a sturdier table too xD
Tatsujin:
--- Quote from: kureshii on October 20, 2009, 11:13:03 AM ---I've got one of them cable-management thingums from Ikea, just look under my table in the pic I posted above ^_~
Works like a charm, and is quite easy to set up too.
As solid as the GALANT feels, I don't think it's going to hold up well in the long-term supporting a 100-pound plasma (it's not designed for the purpose anyway). IIRC Ikea rates it for up to a weight of 30kg, which means the plasma is a no-go.
If there's cheap furniture where you are, I think a short TV cabinet would be more appropriately built for the task.
--- Quote from: fohfoh on October 19, 2009, 04:44:15 AM ---In all honesty though, 3x 22" monitors is a LOT of head turning. That's like, what? 5 feet 6 inches of monitors? Or did I fail maths?
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Actually I have been thinking about a third monitor (not so soon though); 2 side by side, and 1 higher up, in a sort of Triforce of Power arrangement. Bottom 2 will be held up by dual LCD arms, the top one will be mounted on an LCD-mounting pole.
Sounds like overkill, but I have been in quite a few circumstances where I felt a 3rd monitor would be useful; when running simulations or renders that take hours to complete, or hashing files in AOM/re-encoding lossless audio, I like to put them aside to monitor them, but often run out of space on the 24". At the same time throw in a multi-tabbed browsing session and some documents, and that is already enough to fill 2 monitors (a 24" can practically only fit 4 browser windows, any more than that and it becomes uncomfortable to read). This is where monitor #3 would be really handy. It doesn't need to be a 24", even a small 15" would be just fine, and I won't need it to have jaw-dropping image quality either so any old TFT LCD would be good enough.
Why do I need so many browser windows open simultaneously? Until the day I can quickly extract relevant information from 2 different websites/applications and put them side-by-side on the same screen with a few hand gestures, I'll stick to the multi-window approach. (Thank god for Chrome's separate process implementation that allows easy splitting of windows. I know Firefox can do it as well, it's just not as fast or seamless.)
Of course, such dreams must wait until I have the budget for it... and I'll probably need a sturdier table too xD
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I really thought two monitors would do me. Even with my 22" and 37" I still need a third one. Might as well get 3x 24" 1920x1080 for what I am doing. Of course it is show off, but rather it is for what I'm doing and like what you said Kureshii, browsing from two different websites. Tho' I do encoding, web designing, graphics with photoshop and what not so it would actually help to have more monitors on ground. Besides, they don't suck so much power like HDTV's do, or even Plasmas!
I'll look into that wire-thing you and Jarudin have been discussing while I'm at work and see how it is. I'm more than likely to purchase it to elminate all the wires thats around my computer.
Jarudin:
--- Quote from: kureshii on October 19, 2009, 11:22:12 PM ---My old table was sagging
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Ahah XD best docking station mount ever :D
I like that Dell monitor (the hole in the pivot for cables), Dell makes good hardware lately.
--Jarudin--
vuzedome:
--- Quote from: Jarudin on October 20, 2009, 04:29:20 PM ---
--- Quote from: kureshii on October 19, 2009, 11:22:12 PM ---My old table was sagging
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Ahah XD best docking station mount ever :D
I like that Dell monitor (the hole in the pivot for cables), Dell makes good hardware lately.
--Jarudin--
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This is a good idea.
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