FlexiSpot Height Adjustable 47 Inch Standing Desk Converter Quick Stand Up Desk Riser, Wide Black Home Office Desk for Dual Monitor Workstations (M3B)

For what it is--a desktop standing desk--the Flexispot is about as good as it gets, or pretty close. At 47", this spans the full length of my desk, and it maneuvers up and down pretty easily--similar to a bedside hospital table, albeit a little heavier, because this thing is much more substantial. Clamp the lever on the side, and it raises or lowers fairly smoothly with pneumatic assistance.That said, if you've never owned a desktop standing desk, consider these things:Firstly, this thing is pretty heavy. My UPS guy didn't even bother to drag it up my porch steps because of its size and weight, and getting it into the house was a bear. I had to enlist my son to move, unpack, and assemble it. If those things are an issue for you at all, then stop right there.Secondly, When you put this atop your desk, your working surface when the desk is in sitting position is now some 6" higher, and your keyboard will be about 5" higher--both out of any good ergonomic range. I know I need to frequently switch from sitting to standing and back again, lest I get backaches from standing too much, or hip, lower back, and tennis elbow pains from sitting too much. And in fact, my physical therapist says that in general for anyone, it's wise to switch often between sitting and standing--about 1/2 hr duration for each. So...If you happen to have a base desk, as I do, that cannot be lowered or have its legs cut, then sitting at it is kind of an issue (See image. View is from my desk chair set to its highest position. I’m not short at 5’8”. Note how high the standing desk’s surface is). Because my desk surface is far too high, I now suffer from shoulder and neck cricks.Further, with a keyboard tray that is not retractable, I find I have to move my keyboard off of the standing desk’s keyboard tray and down to my BASE desk's keyboard tray when I'm sitting--which I'm fine doing, since my keyboard is wireless--except that the standing desk's keyboard tray then hovers over the base desk’s keyboard tray awkwardly, and prevents me from sitting closer to the desk and screen (see image). Removing and replacing the standing desk's tray alternately is not realistic either. It's bulky and heavy and does not attach and remove easily, despite the quick release levers.Also, someone in another review mentioned that they had issues with the rubber feet or pads (which are roughly about the size of a U.S. Kennedy half-dollar to a U.S. one dollar Eisenhower coin) sliding out from under the desk after a few lift/lower operations. I’m experiencing the same, presumably because the adhesive to the pads is not strong enough. This seems like a minor issue until you consider the fact that this desk is HEAVY. Lifting it back up to slide the pads back in place is NOT easy (forget about the fact that you have to remove everything from your desktop), but if you don’t do this, the desk is so heavy that who knows what it does to your base desk surface over time.What I wish I had done was to go straight to Ikea and buy one of their adjustable desks. They offer them in different sizes and shapes, including a slightly L-shaped one which is nice for supporting a printer too. Regrettably, they do not offer a pneumatic adjustable akin to this desk, but they do offer an electric adjustable. It would have been about $200 more for the L-shaped, but it would've been infinitely simpler and better looking. The cost of buying an adjustable base desk that I can adjust down, in order to bring the standing desk in it’s sitting position to a proper height, adds up to slightly more than if I had just bought Ikea's electric desk. It’s not nearly as attractive, and who knows if I could even pull up to it properly if the base desk is so low—would my legs fit under the desk? Probably not...so I'm kinda regretting this purchase. I considered returning this desk...but again, it is SO heavy and involves giant boxes. Packing it up and sending it back would've been too much of a hassle. If you've never owned a desktop standing desk, I think these are important considerations to make.

Awesome product. Very strong (surprisingly heavy, but that's indicative of good, solid design). My only complaint is that the weight capacity listed on the Amazon description of 44lbs is not quite true. When the box arrives, it says on the outside, and also says in the brochure inside the box, that the capacity of the main platform is only 35 lbs, and that the keyboard tray can only hold something like 4 or 5 lbs. Mind you, that is still a lot of weight, and for most people planning to put two monitors on there, that is plenty. But in my case, I am putting three monitors on there, which total about 40lbs, well short of 44, so I thought I'd be ok. But when I put all three monitors on there AND put on the keyboard tray with the keyboard on there, it was too much. Lifting up the tray, even with the gas cylinders helping me, was very difficult.Luckily, though, for me it was more ergonomic to just put the keyboard on the main platform, so I removed the keyboard tray (which is itself fairly heavy) so that sort of evened things out to where raising and lowering is easy.

I had a baby about 6 months ago and I ordered this because it was hard to sit in a chair all day. My back was killing me. (plus my office chair just sucks). I stand up about 7 hours a day and I lower it to sit down for about an hour a day. It was easy to assemble. It is heavy but I was able to put it on my desk without significant effort. It is very easy to move up and down. Make sure to get a anti-fatigue mat if you purchase a standing desk.

This is one of those times I wish there were 1/2 stars. This is a great sit/stand workstation, and I have only a few issues with it.Beware that it is heavy and if you are a smaller person you're going to want help to get the box to where your desk is and to unbox it. I did not care for the way this is boxed, as it requires you to open it on the long end, turn it upside down and slide the unit in its styrofoam casing out of the large box, all while a) not letting it fall and get damaged or b) letting it damage you. From a user experience standpoint, FlexiSpot needs to do some serious work on the unboxing aspect of such a large and unwieldy unit.I wish they'd go back to providing a slide-in keyboard tray like they apparently used to. I see how it could work with the keyboard tray Flexispot provides, but with the way the 'wings' extend out it would require a slight redesign. I like the fact that it doesn't require me messing around with screws and pre-drilled holes or anything of that nature. It's assembled and slides into rails. It feels very sturdy and doesn't flex at all. The ease of removal means that I can work with managing cables without performing awkward physical movements. Just remove the tray after moving the unit all the way up and work underneath it.The curvature of the keyboard try is too pronounced, though, and frankly feels unnecessarily 'stylish' rather than functional. I had to replace my trusty Logitech K350 keyboard (my go-to for its key responsiveness, ergonomics and overall feel for typing, and I type ALOT) because it simply doesn't fit due to the curve. If this were a straight across keyboard tray, running a consistent 9" or so all the way across, it would work fine for the K350 and many other curved keyboards. I replaced the K350 with a K800, and it works great, it's just going to take a lot to get used to the difference in the keyboards.The other main issue I'm encountering is the bounce it has in it when I type. I had an HP w2558hc monitor that I absolutely loved and have used for a very long time, but at 22lbs it chewed up too much of my weight allotment since I use 3 monitors (which is one reason I got the 47" unit). Even with that monitor and its sturdy base, typing would cause a jiggle to show up. Now that I've replaced the HP with a Samsung S27F350 on a monitor arm, the jiggle is worse when I get really going (I can type >100wpm). On the plus side, this will force me to focus on not mashing keys so badly, but it is definitely a noticeable thing.Monitor arms sit on the platform with no issues. It's roughly 3/4" thick, and since when it is fully lowered it still has about 5 3/8" of space from the top of the desk to the bottom of the FlexiSpot platform, most clamp style arms should work. It is a little disappointing that there are no grommet holes in the platform, though, but I can see where that might weaken the overall structure since it isn't very thick.Movement is fluid and relatively easy, even with 3 monitors mounted to it. Losing roughly 13 pounds of monitor certainly helped, but even with the 22lb HP I didn't have any issues getting it to raise or lower and re-position to anywhere I wanted it. I love the fact that I'm not limited to some number of pre-sets, as I can see myself now adopting a stand, stand-stool, and chair mode at different times of the day, so ultimate flexibility is key. I think the weight limits are somewhat conservative, but I wouldn't want to chance going right up to the limit. You risk not being able to raise the platform if you don't have decent upper body strength, especially given the span it has.The surface of the unit is smooth enough that you can write on it, whether the top surface or the wings of the keyboard tray. This is really nice, but the silly 'phone/tablet' slot all but ruins your ability to use the surface as a desk. Bad design on that one, FlexiSpot. You're replacing a desk surface, and that slot taking up almost the entirety of the width of the platform destroys a large portion of the utility of the surface.I have no issues with the width of the wings on the keyboard tray, there is plenty of room to use my mouse. I am getting a new mouse pad, however, as my round 3M mousing surface pad doesn't fit on the wing well, and when I lower it to sit the mouse pad gets pushed off. I tried pulling the tray out just a smidge to prevent that, since it locks in place in the rails, but that introduces just a slight bounce in the keyboard tray itself, which I didn't particularly like. I'm also not a huge gamer using exaggerated mouse movements, so your mileage here may vary. With the way the tray mounts to the workstation, you could easily craft something that attaches to the rail frame with a larger wing either on the left or the right hand side. The other thing I noticed is that the surface of the keyboard tray is slicker than my old underdesk keyboard/mouse tray, so the mouse pad has more tendency to slide around. Since I have to get a new mousepad anyway, I went with something that hopefully has more tackiness to its underside, which I'm hoping will fix that problem. I don't see this as a fault of the FlexiSpot, per se, but another change that I had to make to my workstation setup nonetheless.There are some next level things FlexiSpot could do to make this a 5 star plus device and really own the competition in this segment. 1. Grommets, as I said before. 2. Built-in cable management. While I appreciate the 'put them where you want them' 3M sticky, re-positionable cable ties and the cable wrap, significant improvement could be made to the unit if it had a builtin cable tray in the back paired with, say 3 small grommets or a mesh wire pass-through along the back. 3. A cup holder. This might seem silly, but a round hole or a recess on the surface that could hold a 12 ounce can or cup of comparable size would make the utility of the workstation markedly better. One of the things I'm highly concerned about since setting up and using the workstation for the last two days is knocking over my cup of water either while moving it up or down or knocking it over because I've had to adjust the placement of so many things in my normal workflow to accommodate the standing method. A cup holder would resolve that, and remember this is going on top of a currently working desk unit, so that's something that's likely already there. Desks don't need cup holders because they don't move, you're changing that paradigm significantly. 4. Provide a cover for the phone/tablet holder. It's useless, but I guess some users might find it useful, so give me a choice and a way to make that surface a contiguous piece of desk. Since you recessed it slightly, if you recessed it another 1/6-1/8" and left that small groove around it, you could have a pop-in/pop-out piece of plastic that leaves the surface contiguous and usable as a desk. The reality is for me the tray is useless as designed because all my tablets and phones have cases on them. Every picture you show of someone using this thing has a device with no case on it. Is there a single person on the planet that uses their phone or tablet without at least SOME form of a case on it anymore? I'd like some way to get at least some of this surface returned to me. Alternatively, if you moved the slot forward 2-3" I could get more of the surface to write on and that might solve much of the problem. 5. USB ports recessed into the surface that are USB 3.0, and a smartly run cable that goes out the back to connect to my PC. Maybe use some of that useless 'phone holder' strip or a USB hub on the wings in front of the lift handles. I like the idea of it being recessed in the surface because that means no cords are hanging off getting in the way. While there are pass-throughs in the phone/tablet slot, an incorporated USB hub would make this way more user friendly and useful. 6. Power outlets on the back for monitors. That would solve a lot of cable management issues, since you'd only have to manage one cable to an outlet instead of multiple cables having to be snaked around and tied up somehow so they don't get in the way when raising or lowering the workstation.All in all a great device, I'll stick with FlexiSpot for my other work surfaces I hope to convert in the near future for sure. I think it's a high quality device with a great use case.

I love it, products is very useful and it is easy to use

Tres lourd, quasi impossible à manipuler seul, pas vraiment nomade.

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