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My new favorite desk?? Autonomous SmartDesk 2

2017-04-03
cooller masters master key pro series of keyboards offer 16.7 million color RGB genuine kiri switches a variety of sizes as well as surface mounted controls allowing full customization without the need for stand-alone software learn more by following the link down below you guys like my plant I call him flan tea what's up guys J is $0.02 here and since moving into the studio one of the most common questions i've been asked is about this desk or this platform or this thing I'm doing reviews on because you guys are very interested in it because it goes up and down well this guy is the autonomous sit stand desk probably one of the more affordable sit stands that you can get on the market because the key they can run into the thousands of dollars depending on the brands that you go with but what really got my attention with this one here is the fact that the giant table surface that you see here a 70 inch wide table surface is only five hundred and forty nine dollars for the upgraded model because I wanted a big surface to use here for while I do my reviews like for systems and cases and even small product b-roll obviously I'm standing at the desk you guys have seen that in the past I went with the largest one they have this is actually 70 inches by 30 inches and it's pretty big so you can even use a multi panel set up on this desk and still have room for your tower up here I do wish it was a little bit deeper but thirty inches is decent I think forty inches would have been perfect but the cool thing about the frame on this is you can actually buy the frame independently and use your own tabletop so you could use a counter top cut your own piece of wood whatever you want and actually mount that to the frame so you don't actually have to use the tabletops that come from autonomous now just like other desks in this price range mainly IKEA it does come in different finishes I obviously chose the white I felt it was a little bit more neutral but you can get it in different shapes as well so if you want a curved desk that you can get closer to you can do that I chose that it's obviously as I said the 70 by 30 large tabletop here now it has these pastors on here also they're perfect for if you're going to go with your monitors and your tower on the desk then you can just pass the cable through which is very nice I bought the cable that are draping back behind the desk and if you've got it up against the wall it means you can get it close to the wall without having your cables start to rub especially as the desk is going up and down now the frame on this desk this is the Business Edition so it can hold a lot more weight in fact 300 pounds is what they advertised the weight limit is being something else really neat about this desk though is as it's going up and down it's got cable management in mind which is very important because you don't want those cables to get snagged on anything so they do actually have pre-drilled locations for you to mount underneath the power supply for obviously the the motors the Business Edition has two motors the standard edition has one it's also got pre-drilled holes for the control box on there it also includes these adhesive reusable cable straps so you can keep everything up there nice and tidy most deaths you're kind of left to just figure out what to do with the cables autonomous is actually thought about that which is very nice to see now not only is this desk manually adjustable it also has four presets in there that you can save at different levels so if you just want to walk up to it no I want to stand you could save that to preset number four it goes to the predetermined height that you set and off you go you don't have to manually manually adjust it maybe you've got more than one person using this desk you can so you can have multiple settings on that which is actually kind of neat this particular one is not actually used as a workspace but the one upstairs I've got for the test bench which is a smaller version of the same desk well bit shorter it's a 50 inch version it's actually pretty nice to be able to adjust it up and down when I'm doing a lot of my test bench stuff I'm kind of up and moving around while the bench makes marks are running so I hate having to sit down do the things band up sit down so it's actually very convenient to have a desk that I can set at a stand height but if Nick wants to play games or I want to play games we've done some co-op stuff in here since we moved in you can just move it right back down to a sitting height and off you go but the most impressive part about this desk is its price point now five hundred and forty nine dollars for what you see right here and this is pretty much the most expensive outfitted Edition that they have it's got the upgraded base it's got a higher weight limit got the larger platform on top it's 549 bucks which sounds like a lot of money but it's actually a bit of a steal when you compare it to some of the other brands out there and you see just how many zeros can be tacked on to the price of a desk like this now in terms of stability once we put it all the way to its max height the higher something gets a little bit more unstable it could be and although it does look like it's kind of wobbling around a little bit right now it does have adjustable feet on the bottom I'm actually a little bit lazy and I haven't done that yet because I'm on a concrete floor and it's not the most even of floors and I'm moving this desk around all the time so that's why I haven't really adjusted those legs but they do have adjustable feet to make it as stable as possible have the utmost space in this thing though to be able to put systems on top of here when I'm doing reviews and not worry about it toppling over the tea legs on here very heavy duty very robust the motors are built into the legs and they actually collapse into themselves so you have very little moving parts for things to get snagged on it's overall a very well thought out design if I had any complaints honestly because nothing is perfect it would be that the pass through go comm grommets even though they're metal they all fit in there as snug as I wish that they did so as I'm pushing cables through and pulling cables out it tends to pull the whole thing out of the desk so I wish there was a little bit better tolerance on those but that's a very minor thing once the cables are run you're not messing with it usually and so you're not going to be having those things pop out very often the other thing I think would have been a nice option is to get the tabletop without those holes drilled if you didn't want to have the cables pass through the tabletop I actually requested that from them they told me that it's not available this is the only way it ships but if that's not your thing you can actually buy the frame independently and put your own tabletop on there so you could run down to Ikea or wood a wood shop or whatever and get your own tabletop made and any size you want I might actually end up doing that so I can get a little bit deeper surface that's available too I mean they're just holes on the bottom of the frame that you could put any wood screw through it long it's not too long and pokes through your surface then you can change out the top don't have to buy that at all which makes the price even cheaper to get just the frame so that's always an option as well now something else I've actually been asked about too are the chairs that I'm using because you guys have noticed I didn't put any dxracer chairs or any of those racing simulator chairs in here we went with real economic chairs again my anonymous they are the Ergo chair and they've got a bajillion adjustments on there and they extremely comfortable I felt they weren't to their own reviews I'm going to do it separate from this one but I'm sick of the whole racing chair concept the whole racing chair scene I'm I'm done with that and I'm a car guy so what does that tell you that tells you that it's just been played out when a car guy is telling you he doesn't want to sit in a racing chair because he's just sick of it they're not the most comfortable thing to sit in long term or long long durations so the Ergo chair will definitely be something we're doing in the future so anyway if you guys want to learn more about this desk head to the description there is a link down there again there's no affiliates or kickbacks or anything I just wanted to share it with you guys so let's say guys tend to go let me know if there's anything else you want me to take a look at when it comes to like setups and maybe I'll get it in here and we'll take a look at it desks and chairs man they're huge I mean we all care about our towers and our monitors and stuff but those all have to go on something and if you love your tower and you love your monitor but you hate your desk in your chair the entire experience is going to suck so care about your setups care about your desk do some legwork and technically do some legwork you do like squats where you have this guy so in fact I guess that's a good way to got here thanks for watching guys and see you in the next one yeah make sure you hit like for plenty there he's a star the show
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