I used an ikea adjustable desk. However, I really needed to keep your desk clean, because it was a manual adjustment. It became too much of a bother, but I am considering readjusting it as a standup desk again now that I'm working at home again.
I can vouch for this desk, and it's nothing short of wonderful. I've been using it for a year as a standing desk, supporting the load of a 24" iMac, a second monitor, and a stereo receiver. The trick to avoiding back pain is to make sure the desk is at elbow height. It feels like it should be lower, but anything short of elbow height will cause serious pain. Picture of it in use: http://cl.ly/beQ
I presume you put your monitors on a separate shelf to keep them at eye level. That is how I set it up, anyway.
How does the adjusting work on this desk? Can you do it while your keyboard/monitor is on the desk surface or do you need to take everything off? Are their tools required or just something like latches?
You need to take everything off and use an allen key; it also requires two people unless you come up with a clever way to go about it.
Could the allen head screw could be replaced with a simple pin for locking the height? If so, then a bit of clever counterweight arrangement would take care of neutralizing the weight of whatever is on the desk, so you just have to push and pull it up and down to adjust the height. Does this seem unfeasible?
I think this IKEA desk is more news worthy since it's only $150. I still miss the JERKER model though (it's almost identical to the FREDRIK, but it had more desk depth)
Why do you write Ikea product names in all-caps?
copied & pasted from the website
But if the JERKER desk doesn't exist anymore, how did you copy+paste it from the website? ;)
How can you not capitalize a name like JERKER?
my thoughts exactly... it's probably why they killed the JERKER and replaced it with a Federic. Whenever I tell my friends about my favorite desk, I always get weird looks until I show them the instruction booklet for it.
Just use the Swedish pronunciation.
Which is?
They pronounce it somewhat similar to like an English person would pronounce `Yerker'.