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It stinks to work or study at a desk that's the wrong size for your body and is even worse if you'd like to occasionally stand up and keep working. Enter adjustable standing desks, where you can change the worksurface from being just above knee level to high up, perfect for work while you're standing. It's good ergonomics. Like the terrific NearHub OD20 Adjustable Height Sit/Stand Desk. Tech expert Dave Taylor built one and shares the assembly process, then demonstrates all the key features and characteristics of the NearHub desk. Tip: It's easy to assemble, but will take you a while.
Check it out at: https://www.nearhub.us/
Visit Dave's Q&A Web site at: https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/
0:00 Introduction
1:30 The Water Glass Test
2:33 The Assembly Process
3:55 Attaching the Motor
5:00 Assembled, Flipped
5:48 Component Details and Info
7:00 Accessories & Pricing
8:43 Accessory Prices
9:35 Conclusions
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a Sit standand desk how easy are these
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things to assemble and how useful are
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they once you get them assembled let's
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check this
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out Dave Taylor here in the field at my
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daughter's house where I just built this
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very nice near Hub
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o20 adjustable height sit stand desk so
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what's the big deal with this is that
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there's a control panel and I
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can
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lower or
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raise the height of the desk and the
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advantage of that is if I want to stand
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up and just not be sitting for 12 hours
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or 8 hours or whatever I can get it to
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just the right height for me to be have
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my computer and be typing and if I then
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want to pull a chair around I can sit
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down down and actually lower this down
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to the perfect height for my body
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dimensions and this is an important
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thing because most desks are designed
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for a standard height human being which
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isn't necessarily your height or your
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torso shape so right off the bat having
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an adjustable desk is great but being
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able to raise it up so that you can
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actually use it standing or sitting or
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on a stool whatever you want to do to be
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comfortable is really really helpful now
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I want to show you that it's so smooth
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watch the water I'm going to just let it
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go down a little bit
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and so you can hear it it's very quiet
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but that water is super smooth there's
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really not much going on there so let's
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see that again in super close motion
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now I'm going to tell you more about the
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desk but before we get there let me walk
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you through the assembly process I will
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say it's easy to assemble but it will
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take time it took me I think about an
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hour or so to build this desk not
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because any individual step was
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complicated but just because there's
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lots of screws and lots of bolts and you
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really want to take your time and make
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sure it all goes in at the right
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direction and with the right orientation
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so let's look at that assembly process
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as you would expect we start with a box
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full of stuff it actually is a
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surprisingly compact box and the
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instructions don't have words so you're
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going to want to take a deep breath but
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the good news is that all of the parts
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are nicely labeled and you can see just
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barely that each of the hardware
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components has a letter associated with
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it too so it's basically a process of
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finding all the right pieces and then
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putting them together properly you start
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with the crossbar and it's pretty easy
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and it actually stays in place because
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of some indents they have on
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it and then these are the supports that
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are going to actually be connected to
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the desk surface
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itself you flip it upside down and then
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there are four bolts that connect each
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of the two legs I would highly recommend
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that you do opposite corners and then do
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the other two corners to make sure
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everything fits
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correctly and that's what it looks like
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at this point so I haven't screwed the
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desk surface onto the legs and the
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hardware set yet but that's the next
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step and that's what it looks like when
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those screws are actually
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installed then the most exciting part is
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actually slotting that bar through the
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motor and then placing the motor and
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you'll notice that there's space for two
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screws to hold the motor to that Cross
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Beam also notice that B2 everything is
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very clearly labeled screw on the
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control
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panel plug in the wires and we are
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getting really close to being ready to
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go you can optionally add some wire
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management and this is just an adhesive
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and then the little metal hook lets you
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hang something from the side like
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headphones with the larger desktop
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surface however it's pretty far back
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from the edge so I'm not sure this is
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going to be utilized very much and then
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there is an additional sort of storage
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space that goes in the back of the desk
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I'm not exactly sure what it's for but
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it ships flat you fold the metal pieces
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to this shape and then you affix it to
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the underneath of the
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desk so that's what it all looks like
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and I'm ready to flip it
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over here it is all ready to
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go and the control actually works when I
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plug it in as you can see here and then
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finally there's the cable grommet which
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actually lets you run either a couple of
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slim cables or a lot of cables through
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the desk surface in a very neat fashion
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or you can completely ignore it just
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leave it sealed up just like this and
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that's everything so that's the assembly
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process like I said it wasn't
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particularly difficult it's just time
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consuming now having done that and
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notice I've lowered this down and I'm
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sitting so this is the other way you can
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use the desk and let me tell you a bit
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about it so it has two stage legs that
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you saw in the construction and a max
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weight of 133 lb I mean my laptop's like
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5 lbs so I got plenty of extra space
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here and the height can go from 28
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inches to 46 inches so that's a huge
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range and they have the cable grommets
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to keep all the cables neat and the
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preset let me give you a closeup there's
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a convenient control and it has two
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memories so you can actually get just
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the right height for sitting and just
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the right height for standing and then
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save those as your two memories super
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easy or you can just use the up and down
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arrows to let's
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see just adjust it to the perfect height
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for you so really I really like these
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things I have been and assembled a
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number of these sort of devices and
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these are just so much nicer than
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regular desks and as you can see it
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gives you lots of a work surface so they
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come in black or white and it's either
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48x 24 or 55x 24 in and the company
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includes a 5year warranty so all very
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nice now pricewise but wait before we
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get to the price let me actually ask you
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thumbs up if you found this of value and
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I also want to mention that they sent me
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two other things too that I haven't
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actually assembled so this one is a
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keyboard tray and the other one's too
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heavy to pick up up it is a desktop
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monitor mount and both of those the
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monitor mount clamps to the back and
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then it's an arm so you can have an
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adjustable monitor where you can just
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sort of place it where you want and the
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keyboard would actually clamp to the
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front here on my side of the desk and
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then I could put a keyboard down there
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and so both of those are options and all
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of that's important for price so let's
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start with the desk itself so this is
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the near hub od2 adjustable height
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sit-stand desk and it is
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$279 at near hub. us having said that
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every time I go to their site there's
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some sort of a discount available so you
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can probably pick it up for closer to
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220 or 230 absolutely a great investment
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for your health and happiness as
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especially if you're working at home but
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honestly most offices now have some of
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these sort of desks too cuz it's so nice
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it's so much better for your body not to
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just sit in a chair for hour after hour
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but to be able to slide it aside and
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raise your desk and stand up and work
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for a little bit so there's that and
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then I have the ma40 dual monitor mount
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in one of the boxes down here and that
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is
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$49.99 and that actually lets me have
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two displays on arms so I can position
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them exactly where I want super
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convenient and then the
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kd10 is the keyboard tray which I could
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put on the front here and then that
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would give me the ability like I said to
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have my keyboard off the work surface so
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you can imagine the keyboards here the
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displays are floating and that gives me
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the entire desk as a work surface so if
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you're an artist for example this is a
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fantastic configuration but I'm in a
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pretty small room so I don't know that
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they're going to have space particularly
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for the keyboard tray but that's another
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story so the kd10 keyboard tray is also
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$49.99 so I really like near hub's
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equipment they actually have have built
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some of their chairs and reviewed their
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chairs and now I've tried this desk and
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this is really nice the most important
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thing is it's easy to assemble though it
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takes time and once you have it
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assembled it's really easy to work with
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and it's very smooth and if you really
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like having your work surface really
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high well suppose you could do that too
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so that's everything I got I'll hope to
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catch you in my next video
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