What is your recommended computer desk chair, and why

[Lord_Zoltan]

Post pics of your chair and let us know why you like it and how it feels.

[macklin01]

My wife and I both got this chair:

http://www.officedepot.com/ddSKU.do?level=SK&id=386947

We managed to get them on sale for closer to $80. It had the best combination of adjustments and ergnomics for the money, which is important for extended computer work. :) I believe that out of the many chairs I tried out at Office Depot, Best Buy, etc., it had one of the longest time ratings (i.e., how long a person should be able to work in it in a given work session) out of the chairs in the price range. -- Paul

[Lord_Zoltan]

Originally posted by macklin01
My wife and I both got this chair:

http://www.officedepot.com/ddSKU.do?level=SK&id=386947

We managed to get them on sale for closer to $80. It had the best combination of adjustments and ergnomics for the money, which is important for extended computer work. :) I believe that out of the many chairs I tried out at Office Depot, Best Buy, etc., it had one of the longest time ratings (i.e., how long a person should be able to work in it in a given work session) out of the chairs in the price range. -- Paul

It seems nice, but you dont need the armrest?

[macklin01]

That's a good question. We toyed with that question when we were considering the chairs, but eventually we found that the superior lumbar and other adjustments overrode that consideration, and it cost too much to get all those features with arm rests.

Now, what does mitigate this for me is that I tend to sit fairly close to the desk with the keyboard 12 inches back (see the desk thread), and I rest my forearms on two gel wrist wrests. It works very well, and it still leaves a lot of desktop space for work. I've been using this setup for several months now and am still pretty happy with it. (And I actually have a separate pair of gel wrist rests for use at school when I code.)

-- Paul