I’m not the one you asked, but for me a keyboard tray eliminated 90%+ of my shoulder pain (I’m short so a traditional desk is too tall for me). I was surprised how much of a difference it made.
yeah, the problem with keyboard trays is i have leg issues and it takes away from my legroom.
but yeah, at work, i removed the keyboard tray and i wound up with arm pain. I CAN’T WIN!
Holy crap! Thats’ like $1800 Canadian loonies.
Here’s my insurance exec chair. Bought from a lifeco for 50 bucks.
Could you have called the store and ordered if from there?
yes, likely. too late now.
now i feel guilty.
Did you get a shipping notice? You can cancel it and order from the store.
Or order a second one from the store and return the first one.
i honestly can’t be bothered. i just wanted to get it done.
I still like it (and I hated them at the office, and was continually taking keyboards off of them in conference room settings). I still have to move the keyboard off the tray when I move to standing, because it’s adjusted perfectly for my sitting height but is too low when standing and too much of a pain to change the positioning on. I should have sprung for the quick adjust mechanism rather than the economy mechanism, but I didn’t know that I would need 2 different positions for sitting/standing.
okay, in that case, maybe I’ll get one. I forget, if I hate it, I think you said that it slides under the desk and won’t get into my legroom?
was going to get the fancy paddle adjuster for the desk.
oh, by “quick adjust mechanism”, you mean in the keyboard tray itself? you don’t mean the switch to adjust the desk.
also, i don’t currently even have a keyboard. i might stick to my laptop keyboard at first. if i can easily hide the keyboard tray under the desk for sure later, that would be good.
Yes, I can shove the keyboard tray back under the desk by quite a bit, and if you hate it and pushing the keyboard under the desk isn’t enough, you could always just remove the mechanism and keyboard tray from the track under the desk by removing the screw that stops it from falling off if you try to pull it out too far.
I got the advanced keypad, not the advanced comfort or the paddle style. I wanted it flush with the edge of the desk so I can’t bump into it.
Yes, the mechanism for the keyboard tray. There is a choice to be made during ordering as to whether you want the economy mechanism or the quick adjust mechanism. I didn’t realize I was going to want a different position for the tray based on whether I was sitting or standing, so I went for the cheaper version, which was a poor choice in hindsight. I have it set perfectly for sitting, and it’s enough of a hassle that I don’t adjust it now that it is set.
With the existing desks my husband and I have at home, I opted for a VariDesk converter. Figured when we bought a house and get nicer furniture, we can just discard our cheap desks and put the VariDesk on top. It comes pre-assembled which is a bonus.
If you get an adjustable desk, you may be able to lower the whole surface to “keyboard tray” height. And raise it when you are doing something other than working at the keyboard. That will work with the laptop, as well as with a stand-alone keyboard.
uplift desk ordered! I also got the “expert assembly”, but opted out of the additional $150 for expert clean-up. that confused me. i can throw out boxes myself if that’s what it means.
so now i ordered a chair and a desk. just need a large monitor. opted for the single monitor arm. if it doesn’t work and i really think i need two gigantic monitors i can probably change that later.
i’m spending thousands on this wfh gig, so cross reference to the thread saying i should pay more in taxes because of wfh, fuck no.
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I quickly contacted them in a panic thinking the highest level castors would make it too tall for me and changed it for the next level down which is shorter. Then I panicked again thinking I need the commercial frame instead of the regular one and that the regular one still might be too tall (I’m 5’4"). It probably wasn’t, but in looking at the specs, I just wasn’t sure, so I changed it a 2nd time. I’m a disaster.
my current lift top coffee table is probably too short. It’s collapsing. I was comparing it to that.
Seems like the commercial frame would have the correct height range no matter what. It was $80 more though.
looks like my aeron chair gets delivered today. might try and use it with my lift top coffee table while waiting for the desk.
This is how I was. OMG, is my desk 1.3” too deep? Is the chair fabric the wrong shade of black? I got hyper obsessed because I didn’t want to have to do this twice. Mine turned out fine, I wish you luck, AOF!
haha, at least i’m not the only one. i’m spending way too much money on this desk for it to be too tall for me. i guess the extra $80 is good for putting my mind at ease there.
now to stress out about the color 
my apartment isn’t matchy matchy at all, so I didn’t really attempt to make sure that was perfect. I got bamboo because it looked pretty good and wasn’t as expensive as some of the others that I thought were a little nicer, but not to justify the price. Also, it was “in stock” whatever that means since I have read in some complaints on fb that this is misleading and I won’t really get it in a day as advertised. It’s also hard to tell what color is the nicest when just viewing it online anyway and not in person.