Computer workstation?

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eye_suc

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I would love to buy a semi decent pc workstation so that everything has its place, and the keyboard tray and all that.

Which is the best to buy and what would be a god price??

Would love to hear some ideas here.

PS: Cape Town stuff only, ta :)
 
found this:

wentek tables

check out the CTL-082SD model.

pretty damn nice, and i checked out one at Cape Gate at LNR Computers. It looks really nice, but the price is over R800, i think its like R860 or something. problem is you have to be a dealer to buy from Wentek directly.
 
nobody use workstations? where you put your pc? on the couch?
 
Personally, I hate these things and think their a gimmick.

I've had 2 in the past - ditched both and put the monitor and keyboard on a decent desk. Now I can change position and move about ( relieves sore joints, shoulders, neck, etc ) and I have space to spread all my papers, books, etc on the rest of the table.

Thats my 1/2c worth
DaveO
 
Have to agree with DaveO. A proper desk and chair are all one needs.

Having said that, if your space is limited, then one does not have too much of a choice, but to buy one of these workstations.

They are all pretty much of a muchness aside from some of them offering a slide out tray for the keyboard or slots for holding CD's and DVD's.
 
yeah, i dont care about the cd slots, since all my disks are in cd sleeves (takes up less space)

the main reason i keep looking at these things are cause of the desk space! the screen is on a seperate stand and your keyboard slides away nicely, leaving you with ample room to work with your design pages and documentation, or whatever.

guess, i'll keep looking then :P
 
eye_suc said:
yeah, i dont care about the cd slots, since all my disks are in cd sleeves (takes up less space)

the main reason i keep looking at these things are cause of the desk space! the screen is on a seperate stand and your keyboard slides away nicely, leaving you with ample room to work with your design pages and documentation, or whatever.

guess, i'll keep looking then :P
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Why not buy a normal desk and build in a sliding drawer for the keyboard. If you have an LCD screen you can mount it on a wall bracket off the desk thereby leaving you ample desk space (more than one of those stands) to work with your design pages and docs.
 
yeah, the lcd screen is the prob i guess :P i have a 19" crt. 19" because i love seeing as much as possible code at once and CRT because i cannot afford a lcd :(

see, i live in cape town, not JHB, so for the same job that somebody in JHB get R15k per month for, i get half :) i know this, cause a good friend of mine moved there and is earning BUCKETS of money...

anyhow, about putting in a sliding tray for your keybord... how hard would that be?
 
Just push it as far into the corner of the desk as it will go and it should free up a fair amount of space on the desk.

As for the drawer, I would go to one of the hard ware stores and buy the runners that they use for kitchen and other drawers, a piece of tiber that has the same colour as the desk and mount it under the desk top.

Go and have a look at one of the workstations that interests you, use the drawer contraption as a guide and then buy the components that they used. Simple enough.
 
cool, thanks RVFmal :)

you just inspired me to start a new project :P
 
eye_suc said:
cool, thanks RVFmal :)

you just inspired me to start a new project :P
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Hope you get it completed.

@ Luke777. Do you ever watch the Home Channel on DSTV? We should submit your name to Making Spaces.
 
I was using some big ass steel tables for awhile, though when I bought my new place, I had some desks made for me & the wiff. Now I've got plenty space ;)
 
thisgeek said:
I was using some big ass steel tables for awhile, though when I bought my new place, I had some desks made for me & the wiff. Now I've got plenty space
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We need pictures!!! No sense in telling us how much space you freed up, we need visual confirmation! ;)

@Luke - that means you too :mad: ;)
 
Luke7777 said:
OK, the old me (long) can be found here
To summarise :
The old and the new, from the left , right and front
/me hangs head in :o about all that neatness
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Heehee - nice. And at least you're honest about the neatness side of things - hell, as I said before, some of the images proferred by forum members told me that they should be photo-journalists for 'House and Home' magazine instead! Small suggestion - do something about that cluster of plugs in the wall socket - rather run a single line to a plug strip, like the one you've got on the shelf, and plug in there. Get a 'trippable' strip with a fuse.
 
That's no cluster of plugs in a wall socket, that's a cluster of plugs into a doublesided powerstrip (3x3,2x2 both sides), itself feeding from the (trippable) one on the shelf :D . Whole "power arrangement" will be redone together with wall to wall storage
 
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Luke7777 said:
Will see what can be done re before and after images.
Bit hectic tonight (Smallville-tape/Survivor-Live, CSI, 24, watch the tape) but maybe prior to all that
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Glad to know that I am not the only "busy" one on a tuesday night - could they not have shifted one or two of thos proggies to Wednesday night (always at a loss there).

You have a desk!!!! Quite a find that.

I still believe you need professional help though *goes off to find telephone under heaps of paperwork on desk to phone The Home Channel*
 
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