Oh, I’m so happy to see someone else really into good office furniture.
I moved a couple of years ago and one of the big things I Decided to do was get a new desk and office chair. I have a Herman Miller Cosm midsize Which I absolutely love. Maybe TMI, but as someone with a slightly larger posterior, it’s very nice to be able to just fit that in there without hitting some sort of hard plastic because it’s just one solid mesh
I also bought an office desk from a company called Montana, which is ironically enough a Danish design firm. One thing I wanted to do with my desk set up was not compromise completely Aesthetics. I really love the way it looks. It’s got nice chrome legs and a blue table top. It can get slightly wobbly when it’s very high, but it also goes super high so I can just adjust throughout the day. I also have to admit the big benefit of it is that I can push it high enough that I can roll my chair under the desk for when I Want to free up some space For VR.
I’m mostly spending time doing gaming and then some light work and I don’t primarily use it in standing mode but especially when I’m playing a game like wow which I can play for hours at a time being able to adjust on the fly is super nice. A big thing for me was it being able to stow away cables in the desk because I keep my PC under my desk. I only really have my keyboard speakers and monitor connected directly to the PC. And those cables can stretch.
All in all a great office chair and great table is such a big win both for gaming and work. And I’m super happy that you’ve taken this opportunity to Spotlight this. I’m hoping your back heals well. Maybe poke and prod at the other team members so they can share their set ups because it would be great to see you all talk a bit about one of the bigger Health worries with gaming.
I am kind of interested in other potential options. Some of these are arguably not viable, but I think one of my first points of interest would be Strix halo With that new 388 chip coming out which is seemingly intended for gaming and doesn’t have the NPU or a ridiculous amount of RAM. I wonder if it might be viable in something like the frame framework desktop if they release a version with that.
We obviously have the steam machine coming which might be compelling though I’m sure that your intentional omission of 8 GB cards would also apply to it.
I’m also somewhat interested in these Intel APUs That seemed to deliver such a good performance though obviously below something like Strix halo I almost wonder if you could put one of those laptop chips in a little mini PC and get a reasonably good Home gaming device plus you get access to XESS.
We are in a very hard position right now with PC gaming because you are paying a bit over $600 for worse than PS5 performance. Meanwhile if you want better than that with a reasonable amount of memory you start getting into the thousand dollar range. Hopefully all of this will blow over sooner rather than later, but in the meantime, I think this was an incredibly helpful guide. I’ve been trying to help some friends figure out how to buy a reasonable machine and it’s not been easy so it’s great to have this type of resource.
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Oh, I’m so happy to see someone else really into good office furniture.
I moved a couple of years ago and one of the big things I Decided to do was get a new desk and office chair. I have a Herman Miller Cosm midsize Which I absolutely love. Maybe TMI, but as someone with a slightly larger posterior, it’s very nice to be able to just fit that in there without hitting some sort of hard plastic because it’s just one solid mesh
I also bought an office desk from a company called Montana, which is ironically enough a Danish design firm. One thing I wanted to do with my desk set up was not compromise completely Aesthetics. I really love the way it looks. It’s got nice chrome legs and a blue table top. It can get slightly wobbly when it’s very high, but it also goes super high so I can just adjust throughout the day. I also have to admit the big benefit of it is that I can push it high enough that I can roll my chair under the desk for when I Want to free up some space For VR.
I’m mostly spending time doing gaming and then some light work and I don’t primarily use it in standing mode but especially when I’m playing a game like wow which I can play for hours at a time being able to adjust on the fly is super nice. A big thing for me was it being able to stow away cables in the desk because I keep my PC under my desk. I only really have my keyboard speakers and monitor connected directly to the PC. And those cables can stretch.
All in all a great office chair and great table is such a big win both for gaming and work. And I’m super happy that you’ve taken this opportunity to Spotlight this. I’m hoping your back heals well. Maybe poke and prod at the other team members so they can share their set ups because it would be great to see you all talk a bit about one of the bigger Health worries with gaming.
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I am kind of interested in other potential options. Some of these are arguably not viable, but I think one of my first points of interest would be Strix halo With that new 388 chip coming out which is seemingly intended for gaming and doesn’t have the NPU or a ridiculous amount of RAM. I wonder if it might be viable in something like the frame framework desktop if they release a version with that.
We obviously have the steam machine coming which might be compelling though I’m sure that your intentional omission of 8 GB cards would also apply to it.
I’m also somewhat interested in these Intel APUs That seemed to deliver such a good performance though obviously below something like Strix halo I almost wonder if you could put one of those laptop chips in a little mini PC and get a reasonably good Home gaming device plus you get access to XESS.
We are in a very hard position right now with PC gaming because you are paying a bit over $600 for worse than PS5 performance. Meanwhile if you want better than that with a reasonable amount of memory you start getting into the thousand dollar range. Hopefully all of this will blow over sooner rather than later, but in the meantime, I think this was an incredibly helpful guide. I’ve been trying to help some friends figure out how to buy a reasonable machine and it’s not been easy so it’s great to have this type of resource.