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Ikea's standing desks aren't that great. They wobble a lot and then anything attached to it wobbles too.

Still looking for the perfect heavy-duty standing desk and heavy-duty VESA arm combo. I don't want anything on my desk moving unless I am moving it myself.

To put it this way: if a desk is $500 and wobbles slightly (meaning if I touch the desk or type, my coffee jiggles and waves are seen) or is $1000 and the desk does not transmit any energy from my keyboard into anything else ... I will pay the extra $500 without even batting an eye.

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Take a look at https://www.autonomous.ai

They offer the option to buy JUST the legs, and you can mount your own top. I went that route. Bought the legs with the strongest motor (can support 300lbs) and put a nice heavy desktop on there with a vesa mounted 34" curved monitor.

It's pretty damn sturdy. I never notice any wobble with normal use and I usually have it pretty high up.

+1 for autonomous. I bought the standard one offered on their site for $300 and I have two vesa mounted monitors and a desktop tower on my desk. Nothing wobbles. Extremely stable. Very satisfied with the setup.

I'm standing at an Ikea Bekant sit/stand desk right now and have no issues with wobbling. I also only have an laptop, external monitor, two bookshelf speakers and a small lamp on it, I can see how a monitor arm might cause wobbling. I've had it for ~3 years, moved it a few times and never had any issues with it. At the time it was far cheaper ($500) than any other sit/stand desk on the market, not sure if that has changed.

Also going to chime in and say I've got one with monitor arm (only one monitor mind) and bookshelf speakers (also not a lot of weight). No wobble after 2 years or so.

When assembling I did feel that the actual attachment of the surface/board was a bit cheap. They used plastic positive tension pokey... things. Not sure what you call those. I suspect if you have to disassemble / reassemble it a few times they may wear out and the top may wobble independently of the base.

I just picked up one of their new Idasen desks. It's a lot sturdier than their previous ones that I've seen.

I get minimal wobbling of the desk surface at full height, but my monitors do still wobble a bit. At normal desk height there's no wobble. I think most of the wobble comes from the cheaper VESA mount, if I'd gotten a more rigid one it would be better but I wanted more flexibility in arranging the monitors.

I held off on the standing desk for a long time. When I saw the IKea Idasen, I knew they had solved the wobble problem. The desk is awesome and more people should consider it. I also specifically broke out the part numbers and only bought the base. I put a Bamboo top on it.

My monitor does also wobble a bit with the cheap vesa mount I have (it's also a ultra-wide). I'm still researching a proper arm to mount.

Can confirm the sturdiness of Idasen. I used to be convinced that IKEA particle/paper-filled boards can never be as good as solid wood, but apparently the new leg/underframe combo worked wonders to prop up the whole thing, and it now serves as the base of my main EE workbench.

The Skarsta is cheap and fine. When you go to Ikea they tend to wobble, because about a month after assembling them you need to tighten the bolts once. Done.

At home, I customized my Skarsta a bit. Bigger top (200CM wide versus 160CM, 70CM deep) in order to fit 2*27" LG5K and two monitor speakers. And a sliding shelf hanging below the frame, just deep enough to fit a master keyboard. Works fine! :)

Oh, not motorized. No problem. 30 secs of light excercise :)

Have the Bekant and as others have mentioned the build quality is very good. I have 2 monitors mounted via an arm and it really doesn't wobble.

We have "UpliftDesk" standing desks and they seem pretty solid. I haven't used it standing but I can't wiggle the desk up/down at all.

I have an uplift desk frame with 4 legs and using my own desktop made from my parents old dinner table. Perfectly stable.

I got a desk from https://www.fully.com last year and I'm pretty pleased with it. Looks like they have a monitor arm option.

We are shopping for desks right now, and we went to IKEA to look at standing/adjustable desks, and all of them were way too wobbley, so I agree.

I have a Multitable "modtable" with the setup you describe, though with a custom-carved ikea wood countertop for the desk surface.

Solid, stable, no wobble.

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