Taking a look at a sit-stand desk from Uplift Desk — Review by Standingdesktopper

Uplift model, they measure 48 x 30 inches and they work up from there based on the size of the surface number of legs and quality of the desk top which goes all the way up to some insanely high quality reclaimed wood tops.

The model we look at it today is a two-leg test and measures 72 x 30 inches with metallic industrial legs and a walnut laminate top

Now for the sake of brevity and because we have a lot of ground to cover so in this article I’m not gonna get into the health benefits of using a sit-stand desk, but if you happen to work long hours of the desk I’m sure you’re very familiar with how amazing your back feels after sitting hunched over at best hearing at a monitor all day!

So the first thing I noticed about this Uplift desk would it arrived it’s just how insanely heavy it is

The desktop here is an inch thick and it’s very solid and the legs each house their own motor. Both the desktop and the frame weigh about 60 pounds each and these motors are no joke either they say once a symbol this desk can lift a total of 355 pounds

The frame is designed to slide to accommodate desk surfaces from 42 inches wide all the way up to 96 inches wide, so if you have a countertop or a desktop or a butcher block already, that’s nice that you’d like to convert to sit stand.

Uplift also sells just the frame for 389 bucks. The frame slides open at the feet of the desk are almost directly parallel with the edge of the surface, this really destroys any idea of side-to-side wobble matter of fact it makes the entire thing feel very stable

Assembly is best executed with 2 people just because of the sheer weight of the pieces and you will need a lot of open floor space. But the process itself is extremely straightforward. It took me about an hour and a half to assemble but I was filming as I went so it’ll likely be a lot faster for you.

The assembly instructions included are very detailed and in the event you misplaced something while you’re putting everything together, all of the installation guides for every product they manufacture are available on their website!

The motors are smooth start and stop they move the desk surface at about 1.5 inches per second and they do so at a noise level of 50 DB. Height adjustment ranges from 24 in a quarter fifty point two five inches

As the desktop in this article is an inch thick that brings your work surface to a full four point two seven feet off the ground. I’m just about six foot four and if max height it’s surprisingly a bit too tall for me

I’m not used to anything being designed for tall guys so this was a major win and even at its max height it’s extremely sturdy and front to back wobble is minimal.

If you need even more stability you can opt for a four league model but that increases the cost considerably with just the frame starting at 899$

Now I opted for an upgrade to the memory keypad for $35 so in addition to basic up-and-down motion, you also get four different memory presets you can use for your own needs or if you happen to be sharing your workspace with someone.

All right let’s get into use case so obviously a desk this size is gonna more than accommodate a clean basic workstation setup. That’s an added bonus right now Uplift is also including a desk organizer set for free so if you plan on using this desk for a more traditional business setup, of course, that’s gonna be an option as well.

Now I was planning on using this desk for my gaming and rendering setup which is why I opted for a little more real estate on the desktop but I decided to take it a step further.

I figured in terms of cramming the absolute most things on your desktop or your setup nobody has the market cornered like the dual PC streamer. This sheer amount of hardware two PC’s multiple monitors a console or 2 audio mixers, a stream deck dual keyboard and mice controllers, a boom mic arm, etc.

The list just goes on and on!

And every one of those devices needs power or video or audio connectivity or all of the above so you’re looking at an insane amount of cables to manage. What’s a sit-stand just this really increases the visibility of the cabling behind the desk as well so I knew I had a real challenge cut out for me both in terms of real estate and cable management

In a streaming set of the total depth of your surface can become a real issue and when you have big panels those monitors stains eat up a lot of valuable real estate, so monitor arms were must for me.

I opted for a pair of Uplifts $99 few arms one for my 27-inch panel and one for my 32 inches. I actually never imagined that my ace or 4k panel would be on the amount. It measures 32 inches and it’s just a hair over like 18 pounds, I was shocked when the monitor arm was able to hold it

Even after five to counterbalance it is still a little bit limited and how far I can extend it out because that increases the leverage on the arm and it has a little bit of wobble depending on how I have it positioned but the trade-off for not having its enormous stand on my desk was well worth it.

These arms have a really clean look they function great they’ve got cable management built into them and they have 2 USB 3 paths throughs built right into the stand.

You can mount these through the dust or clamp them to the rear and even with the big heavy 32-inch panel, the clamping system works great!

It’s super sturdy

These arms also come in a dual arm option but due to the size of my panels and the fact that one sits in a clamshell angle I opted to go with two single arms instead

The desktop itself comes with two large hole cutouts for cable management and the basic grommets they include have this neat little spring-loaded door so you can still maintain a pretty clean aesthetic if you don’t plan on using them for pass-through

For $70 you can upgrade one of these to a power grommet that has two outlets on your desktop it still retains cable pass-through

This is great for desk accessories that don’t have a lot of reach in the power cable especially like your wireless phone charger, you just plug it right into the desktop where it’s designed super smart ooh it’s even got this little tab you can pull out if you need to route something bigger through it, like DisplayPort or power cables

So what 72 inches this thing is able to hold a mountain of stuff including my three panels, a ps4, a mixer, and my main gaming PC plus. All of my peripherals!

My dedicated encoding machine has to sit on the floor because it's enormous. I move it around the space a lot and I don’t really know anybody with two full-size PCs on the desk~!

Seemingly everything Uplift has a solution for this, with their optional PC holder that allows your entire PC to adjust up and down with the height of the desk.

Since I do move this PC a lot I opted to leave it on the floor and instead go with some USB extension cable so you can pick up reach cheap on Amazon.

For 59 bucks Uplift also offers a clamp-on surge protector with a 15-foot cord it handles six devices for standard in two with special spacing for like larger-than-average wall warp plugs.

It’s also got two powered USB ports. The USB ports are limited to a 5-volt output though so no.9-volt fast charging if you have a phone that supports that

Even though it covers a pretty decent section of the hue RGB strip I have on the edge of this desk, I opted to install it centrally on the rear of the desk lamp to the edge. For an even cleaner look, it can also be installed under the dust completely out of sight clamped to the frame.

So how do you even begin to cable manage a massive setup?

And how is it going to look when the desk is at full standing height in a large portion of the wall in the rear the dusk is exposed worse?

How easy is it gonna be to service when everything is routed and in place and I have to change something in the setup

Uplift offers a few different levels of cable management systems with the basic one starting at 39 bucks. This includes these really cool adhesive reusable cable ties as well as tons of like zip ties, cable clips screw in mounts a really large wire loom and a surge protector

Step up a 10$ notch and you’ll get the plastic tray that runs along the rear of the desk that helps to hide all the wires

I opted to go a little higher and get into what is the most genius solution to cable management I’ve ever seen, it’s a modesty panel that runs along a full length of the desk that also doubles as a cable pouch with Velcro closures. This thing seriously wins

It has a few access points along the rear right under the lip of the desk. It allows pass-through for cables for things sitting on top of the desk. And it also has passed throughout either side as well

All you do is release a portion of the velcro dump your excess cables in and close it back up, super clean.

It’s worth noting here too that if you’d like to visually close off the entire underside of the desk you can get smaller modesty panels that fit on the sides to completely enclose the underside as well

When standing you may have like a nice carpeted room. I have laminate over concrete in my space and it gets uncomfortable quick. Naturally Uplift has got you covered there as well with options for your feet ranging from like a basic squishy Mathieu stand on.

As well as this extendable height motion stool to give you a little something you can lean on while you’re working

It’s got this little rocker on the bottom so it doesn’t sit completely flat. This allows you to shift and pivot while you use it.

So functionally the desk itself is just a beast.

The sit-stand functionality is pretty obvious but there’s also a lot of less obvious usage that becomes apparent the longer you use it.

First and foremost adjusting the height of a standard desk usually involves adjusting each leg independently and then leveling the desk. There’s nothing worse than getting your new desk getting your whole setup to put together and then deciding after a few days of use that you’d really like it to be an inch higher or an inch lower usually you just go with it!

With this Uplift desk, it’s as simple as just pressing a button to get it exactly where you need it to be !!!

This also works great when you’ve been gaming we’re typing for a long time and you just need to adjust it a little bit so you can feel fresh again.

Cable managing a standard desk generally involves sitting on the floor or
laying on your back working with your arms extended

I have yet to meet the person that enjoys this process, even if my height
sitting in a standard office chair, I could raise this desk to full height sit in my office chair completely under the desk and cable manage this desk the same way a mechanic would change your oil with your car up on the rack

I can’t describe to you how excited I was to find this out for the first time without using very graphic descriptions of human anatomy

And how many times have you got up from your desk you go to push your desk chair in only to figure out your armrest or like a quarter of an inch too high and it won’t fit under the desk you gotta get back in the chair lower the chair so you can push it all the way in

What? Just me?

Okay, with this I could just assign a memory button to raise my best height slightly when I’m finished working so my chair slides right in a piece of cake and I never have to adjust the height of my chair

Conclusion

The bottom line here is that the adjustability of this desk allows you to dial in the perfect feeling set up for you.

If you needed to sit exactly flush with the armrest of your chair for more elbow support, easy!

Are you on a Skype or a discord call, you feel the need to pace like a maniac while still in the frame on your webcam, fine!

You want to lean back in your chair and play with the controller and be able to adjust your monitor height when your neck gets the stuff? Done!

Do you produce content do product photography do you enjoy endlessly adjusting your tripod height especially with a heavy motorized slider rig on top just to get the shot

What if the surface itself was able to adjust to your exact specific needs you could nail the shot

what if it’s a bonus you could get some really sick motorized vertical slides just using the desk itself

So let’s talk value, for just under 500$ you can get in and the entry-level size is going to accommodate the vast majority of gaming or productivity setups.

As mentioned in this article, this desk and all the accessories comes to just under 700 dollars! Sure that’s not an insignificant amount of money

With Uplift, you get what you pay for

In this case, that means outstanding build quality thoughtful design and an enormous catalog of accessories that actually makes your experience more comfortable and more convenient

You also get a standard 7-year warranty on your purchase that can be upgraded to 12 years if you choose big thanks to uplift for sending this out for review

Let me be really clear about this if they had sent this out to me for review on loan and told me at the end of the term that I had the option to return it or buy it, I would buy it with no hesitation

This thing hit the mark for me a 1000%

You really owe it to yourself to check out their website if you’re interested it’s big.

I could seriously do other articles just on the accessories that I didn’t discuss in this post

This was really eye-opening for me too because I really thought that organ omits that this level of quality was completely out of my price range

In a market where we are constantly subjected to the rising prices of GPUs panels and seemingly everything else associated with gaming it absolutely blows my mind that you can get into a product like this!

You can read full more info about Uplift desk at https://standingdesktopper.com/uplift-desk/