OK, This One is on Me

rat said:
I had gone through a number of desks, borrowed and otherwise, until I found one that worked the best for me.

A 2' x 4' folding leg banquet table.

Seriously. Best desk ever.

Sometimes less is more and you don't need to spend $399 to get the features a $30 table give you: Maximum legroom and a nice, flat surface.

I've also been chair hunting lately and I'm finding the more expensive it is, the less I really want to bother with it. Best option I found so far was a LaZBoy chair at Staples. And this was after checking out Aerons, Steelchase chairs at an office supplier.
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I used an even bigger hardwood slab of wood that I thought was the bees knees until I realised a sofa is the best PC platform.
Get the right mouse, sold!
 
Nothing wrong with that. A good chair can make or break a gaming session. I've got a 10 year old, worn out chair that I've spent 9 straight hours in (first time I binge played Mass Effect) and it was perfectly comfortable. I've bought 3 different chairs over the last couple years cause it's getting long in the tooth and as I'm typing this out, I'm still sitting in the same old chair. They're not all made equally.
 
I think the big problem with chair reviews or well, any reviews is long term. I think most of us will get a chair and use it for 4+ years. My last chair lasted a decade. My current chair is pretty much done now and it's been 3 years. My plans are to get a car bucket seat and connect it to the computer chair's base. Car seats easily last a decade or more. I feel the base won't though.

IcePickFreak said:
$900 for an SE model?! We really need some competition in the chair market! :geek:
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I think the problem is the competition isn't really competition, as their prices are 3-4 times that. Recaro makes office chairs, but they're like $4000+.

You can check out racechairs.com. They have some nice looking seats and desks, but well above the SE's price. They also have some under. This one is $200 less, but it's pretty ridiculous looking.

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I never understood the point of so called "gaming chairs". They are expensive when you consider you can get something equivalent from office department for cheaper. Hell, for 900 you can almost get a big bankers office chair, you know the one where they sit on their asses the whole day counting their money, smoke cigars and get BJ from the secretary under the table. Basically a sofa with adjustments and wheels, cannot get much more comfortable than that.
 
I think people get them, cause their "race like" or something. I'm just building my own from an old WRX seat.
 
Review "Comfortable short term, 2 to 3 hours, did not cause blood clots. 5-8 hours damn near had heart attack from clot formation. Gold [H] for short term use, DEATH for extended gaming sessions. Cannot recommend this chair at this time till extended gaming clotting issue resolved.":p
 
Comixbooks said:
I had my experience with Mesh chairs never again unless it's guaranteed not to stretch after a year.
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I have sat my ass in a generic mesh backed chair from office max for the last 4 years with no stretching. My wife has an even cheaper one with mesh on bottom and back, 2 years no stretching. Where are you buying chairs?

The materials used in this chair are pretty good. TPEE and PET (basically really good polyester webbing) with calfskin leather.
 
krotch said:
I think the problem is the competition isn't really competition, as their prices are 3-4 times that. Recaro makes office chairs, but they're like $4000+.

You can check out racechairs.com. They have some nice looking seats and desks, but well above the SE's price. They also have some under. This one is $200 less, but it's pretty ridiculous looking.
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We need a C[H]air forum to argue about brand superiority.

Here we're wasting our time crying about $1200 graphics cards.
 
Timing is funny. I've been looking for a new chair recently. I'm leaning towards the Herman Miller (or is that [H]erman Miller?) -

For a chair to be good it doesn't have to look like a race car (or as someone else said "a can of Axe body spray")-

At the very least if you do a legit review, be sure to see how it rolls on both carpet and hardwoods...
 
cool, let us know when you're reviewing some gaming socks and pants..... :)
 
krotch said:
I think the big problem with chair reviews or well, any reviews is long term. I think most of us will get a chair and use it for 4+ years. My last chair lasted a decade. My current chair is pretty much done now and it's been 3 years. My plans are to get a car bucket seat and connect it to the computer chair's base. Car seats easily last a decade or more. I feel the base won't though.



I think the problem is the competition isn't really competition, as their prices are 3-4 times that. Recaro makes office chairs, but they're like $4000+.

You can check out racechairs.com. They have some nice looking seats and desks, but well above the SE's price. They also have some under. This one is $200 less, but it's pretty ridiculous looking.

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And still with those stupid cheap plastic castors. We inherited a basic office chair from my grandparents, probably made in the '70's that has solid resin castors, and it still moves around the floor better than anything new. If I have to spend $$$ on a chair, I better not have to run down to harbor freight and buy new castors to fix where everyone is cheaping out!
 
Please include a "how far can I huck this fucking chair?" test. You know, for when you rage quit and slamming your keyboard just won't do. It can also double as a durability test. ;)
 
Comixbooks said:
I had my experience with Mesh chairs never again unless it's guaranteed not to stretch after a year.
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Ugh, made that mistake a couple months ago, don't care to admit how expensive it was. Now I have a cheap coccyx orthopedic foam seat cushion on it, which just constantly reminds me how I could have put this damn cushion on any chair for essentially the same result.
 
Comixbooks said:
I had my experience with Mesh chairs never again unless it's guaranteed not to stretch after a year.
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Are you talking the mesh back or mesh bottom or both?

I have the Ikea Markus, (mesh back) and in the past 2 years, there's zero stretching of the back. There is however two indentations where my 215lb ass cheeks has been sitting. *shrugs*

I have yet to find the perfect work/gaming/fap chair though, I felt bad spending 199 on this thing, no way I'd spend more than 250 on ANY chair.
 
I went to their website when you posted this, and it repeadidly crashed. It's actually complete garbage. It's slow. It looks and feels like it was made from a template by a middleschool student recovering from a concussion. I hope their chair isn't of the same quality.

Though why don't you review gaming chairs? A lot of people have them, or don't have them. At least they're being marketed to us and it would be nice if a trustable site like H reviewed them for us. That's why we came here in the first place and still come.
 
Yo! It stretches Yo!

I bought two chairs from Office Fax and got rid of them both the back just started to stretch and was no longer supportive.
 
Disposed said:
I have sat my ass in a generic mesh backed chair from office max for the last 4 years with no stretching. My wife has an even cheaper one with mesh on bottom and back, 2 years no stretching. Where are you buying chairs?

The materials used in this chair are pretty good. TPEE and PET (basically really good polyester webbing) with calfskin leather.
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I bet you he got it from where he works... Wal-Mart.
 
We use mesh chairs at the office for people with back pain, it's great if you get ones that are high quality. I tried different ones and the cheap entry level stuff they sell at office depot is awful, but the good stuff is really really good though, excellent back support for years.

The only thing I can complain about is I feel they intentionally stick some points of failure in the design so they can break within 5-10 years. For example the back support connecting to the base with a couple metal screws holding cheap plastic together instead of something rigid where obviously allot of the pressure is concentrated.

Looking forward to the review.
 
Can you get laid in it / will it stand up to the rigors and pressure - How far can you overclock that seat piston?
Acoustics - will it wake the kids sleeping in the next room?
The Lewinsky test - How easy is it to remove stains.
 
Kyle, you better not start pulling any of that canned chair benchmark bullshit that the industry suffers from. Next thing we'll know, the chair manufactures will start optimizing to asses like you... leaving some of us fatter-asses with sub optimal performance curves.
 
dgingeri said:
Fair warning, those mesh bottom chairs can wear through the seat of your pants rather quickly, especially if you have a thick wallet in your back pocket.
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One really shouldn't put a wallet in back pocket and sit on it. That's a serious health hazard down the line. It will help contribute and cause back problems among things.
 
when I was the 25 ows, we had use or lose money and the commander spent money on chairs like those. we may have not gotten bad backs because of them but even through my bdu's I would have imprints on my butt and thighs of the imprint the mesh left on my butt. I know some of my female coworkers started wearing tights under their bdu's but if you end up with the mesh pattern imprinted on your butt don't say you were not warned.
 
I have always wondered with review materials, do you get to keep it or does it have to be sent back? If sent back who foots the bill for shipping?
 
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Fuck, my office chair is easily 20+years old. Yeah, at least 20. I really do need to get a new one.
 
Veeb0rg said:
I have always wondered with review materials, do you get to keep it or does it have to be sent back? If sent back who foots the bill for shipping?
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Generally everything sent to us we keep; I would say 98% of it. After we have gotten finished abusing it, it really holds no value for the company that supplied it.

We do NOT resell any of the samples use, which is not what all sites do. For some sites, reselling the samples is part of their business model, which I do not truly consider ethical.
 
Ok, look, I love this place...ok, but you didn't even do the review yet but they already got their link....come on now Mr. Bennett, how much cash did you get? Or was it hookers?
 
jardows said:
And still with those stupid cheap plastic castors. We inherited a basic office chair from my grandparents, probably made in the '70's that has solid resin castors, and it still moves around the floor better than anything new. If I have to spend $$$ on a chair, I better not have to run down to harbor freight and buy new castors to fix where everyone is cheaping out!
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The cheap plastic castor chairs at work seem to break all the time, but the ones I buy for home use never seem to. It's always something else that breaks or just wears. Like the arm rest falls off or you start getting holes in the backing/cushion.

For me, I aim for like a $200 chair, but I'm just building my next one. I just ordered up the car bucket seat from a guy in the UK for $200 shipped. I am looking at polyurethane castors, even though the ones on my current chair aren't broken. But they don't exactly roll around, since dust and shit collects on them and it just slides around instead of rolling. I don't feel like cleaning the wheels every couple weeks.
 
rat said:
I had gone through a number of desks, borrowed and otherwise, until I found one that worked the best for me.

A 2' x 4' folding leg banquet table.

Seriously. Best desk ever.

Sometimes less is more and you don't need to spend $399 to get the features a $30 table give you: Maximum legroom and a nice, flat surface.
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Da fuck? I like solidity and enjoy the hell out of my steel desk from the 1940s. I did take out the spring loaded typewriter tray behind the left door though and it fits a full-size laser printer now.

Looks like this one here:
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