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you know like you pick for a man cuz of you yeah I'm Kevin Hart as a bunny yo guys johnathan here and welcome to the $200 death setup where the challenge is to find a desk the accessory did not line make it functional but it's got to look good and most importantly not exceed that price point now disclaimer this is not include the computer or the speaker's because looks pretty much single-handedly obliterate the entire budget that may make explain to a later episode at a higher price point that something you want to see go to drop a like down below but for now the focus is for those who already have a computer but need to shake things up as far as their setup goes so for starters we could not do a setup challenge without a desk and for this I want with the techni mobili modern computer desk which has its really clean pine laminate top white accents white feel legs and gives you a pretty decent amount of real estate all while remaining relatively compact now currently as of right now this desk is 110 bucks on Amazon so it's going to give us roughly 90 bucks to play around with as far as accessories go but a couple things that sent out to me with this desk is one the stored which is plenty enough space to store your keyboard your mouse your pen your pencil or in this case if you're awesome Evans your 10-year anniversary notebook at so Tech regardless if you're awesome Evans though anybody's going to appreciate some cable management and that is exactly what we have here in the back the compartment opens up which is going to be really helpful for hiding those pesky cables first up is the globe desk lamp which is a really really tall box oh man this is going to be some assembly required a Scots iron reach that doesn't screw it it kind of sits there Oh No okay I'm Spellman I was trying to connect the spring to the top of the lamp but in this case it goes from end to end be careful you don't whip yourself in the face and that we've got ourselves a light so now we've got the lamp set up initial impressions are after the kind of sketchy installation it's not bad for 20 bucks at all we're going to go ahead and get this light bulb in this is a $10 colored LED light bulb BAM now see if you get some changing color so we got red green blue my boy so it's a lab in the light bulb out of the way my biggest question right now is going to be the LED strip for the back of the desk this I've actually never messed it before if it's going to be interesting to set it up was cool though from what I can see it is actually powered by USB so you're not going to have to tinker around with power or possibly electrocute yourself so to test it off I'm doing power this up through a USB power break-in yep that actually works I am like a sit down Christmas tree following the LED light there are these really cool cable management strips that come in a pack of five for around twelve bucks what you're seeing here is actually one split in half and the reason I'm doing that is we can keep that open in the middle of that we can eventually then tuck in the cable just like the LED strip what's also nice touch with these is they come with the 3m adhesive pre-installed you're not going to have to attach that or stick that on yourself next we can go ahead and attach the LED strip and right away you can already see how that cable management strip is paying off because we can touch the cable neatly through that and then run it inside the desk now functionally the LED strip worked perfectly and for 10 bucks having the built-in control was awesome but it was at that moment I quickly realize that I actually placed it too high because of how the desk functions so through my trial in there if you go with this setup it's actually a better move to place the LED strip slightly lower what that's going to do is allow you to open and close the cable even portions on the desk without screwing up your LED strip now realistically you're not going to want to throw a USB Bank inside your desk so next up is a surge protector from power add what I like about this is in addition to the outlets there are also two USB ports which in turn will power up the LED strip it was almost a test within a test which is really nice to know that you're not limited to one stick only on the LED strip for attachment the second time worked just as well from there was really about putting these finishing touches on the setup and I got to say the cable management section worked really well it helped keep things super clean and tidy total for this setup was just under 180 bucks which leaves us around 20 bucks to play around with so in this case I went ahead and threw in a fake plant and of course baby Groot so with the color we're getting to the lights and the lighter tones of the desk itself it looks really great against the darker wall especially at night but it also looks great in a lighter environment in front of a white wall like this all in all for a hundred ten bucks the desk is really solid the one thing I will point out is you got to be careful not to scratch it because it is a laminate top so if you happen to be subscribed to the Curiosity box by Vsauce definitely don't do this okay now for scale and for reference this is a 15-inch MacBook products we're thinking about using a monitor I would say 21 to 24 inches it's probably the ideal sweet spot the cable management section is often you can see what a great job it does the height of the wires you pair that with the drawers up front that helps keep things organized tack on a few accessories are four to Bill's we got a really clean set up a slide for that hopefully you guys enjoyed the video if you did make sure you subscribe for more episodes like this and if you like setups you probably want to check out the dream desk which you can check out here this is Jonathan and I will catch you guys later