Blacklyte Atlas Lite Standing Desk Review

We each cognize by present that adjacent if you person a large chair, sitting for excessively agelong brings a myriad of musculoskeletal and metabolic risks. That's wherefore lasting desks, which tin determination to astir anyplace wrong their scope to accommodate the astir ergonomic positioning, are specified crippled changers. The occupation with a bully lasting desk, however, is usually its price. Enter Blacklyte and its Atlas Lite Standing Desk. As the "Lite" successful the sanction suggests, it has less frills than different lasting desks, including the company's ain Atlas, but astatine fractional the price, you're giving up amazingly small from a applicable standpoint.

Blacklyte Atlas Lite – Options, Assembly, and Setup

The Atlas Lite Standing Desk is disposable successful Obsidian Black, Moonstone White, and Natural Oak colorways. The Obsidian Black is the aforesaid colour throughout, portion the Moonstone White retains the achromatic power panel. The Natural Oak is identical to the Moonstone White, but it features a Natural Oak-colored desktop.

The Obsidian Black is disposable successful Small (47.2 inch width), Medium (55.1 inch width), and Large (63 inch width) sizes. The Moonstone White and Natural Oak are disposable successful Medium, Large, and Extra Large (70.9 inch width) sizes. Small and Medium desktops tin grip up to 220 lbs of distributed weight, portion Large and Extra Large tin grip up to 265 lbs.

All 4 desktop sizes diagnostic a extent of 31.5 inches, which is connected the generous broadside successful examination to different desks, lasting oregon otherwise. This other country tin easy accommodate ample oregon aggregate monitors, allowing you to basal oregon beryllium backmost astatine a much comfy distance.

I received the Obsidian Black successful Medium, which came successful 2 boxes. The desktop container weighed a beefy 73.6 lbs, with the desktop itself coming successful astatine astir 60.2 lbs. The container with the 2 legs came successful astatine 50 lbs, with the legs themselves astir 46.3 lbs, acknowledgment to each 1 having its ain motor.

It's not a hard build, but it decidedly requires 2 radical due to the fact that of each that weight. For the measurement that progressive attaching the feet to the legs, I recovered that having a 3rd idiosyncratic helped with alignment. In immoderate case, you mostly usage the included Allen cardinal to unafraid the screws, gathering the legs first, past attaching them to the desktop.

There's a ligament screen for the halfway underside crossbar, which is utilized to tally the cables from the legs to the power panel. The power panel, which tin beryllium placed connected the acold close oregon acold near of the desktop, is attached with antithetic screws utilizing the included Phillips screwdriver. The aforesaid screwdriver is past utilized to connect a cablegram absorption container to the rear of the desktop. Finally, the AC adapter is plugged into the power sheet and past into the wall.

Blacklyte Atlas Lite – Form and Functionality

The recycled woodfibre desktop worldly has a bully glossy melamine laminate decorativeness and rounded corners. Save for the flashy Blacklyte logo connected the little near country of the desktop, it's an elegant design. As expected for a glossy surface, however, it does prime up a batch of fingerprints, truthful beryllium definite to person a bully microfiber cloth connected call.

A metallic framework runs on the perimeter of the underside of the desktop. This is large for stability, but does make a 2.3 inch heavy surface, which tin bounds what you attach. I recovered clamp-style accessories enactment best, but adjacent then, you person to marque definite they tin unfastened up capable to fit. There's besides a centered indent astatine the backmost of the desktop that's large for routing cables behind, peculiarly successful conjunction with the cablegram tray that's straight underneath.

The integrative power sheet is simply a spot flimsy and basic, but it has each of the functionality you need. Besides the up and down buttons, determination are 4 representation presets, which are acceptable astatine the existent presumption by holding the fig down until it beeps. Thanks to the dual motors, you don't person to hold agelong for the table to softly emergence oregon lower. It lone takes astir 16 seconds to spell from its lowest imaginable tallness of 27.5 inches to its highest of 46 inches. While much costly lasting desks whitethorn spell a spot faster and amended accommodate individuals taller than 6 feet 2 inches, for astir needs, this should beryllium plenty. However, if you're 6 feet 4 inches oregon taller, decidedly look for a lasting table that tin spell to 48 inches oregon higher for amended ergonomics.

The table is reasonably coagulated acknowledgment to the value and metallic frame, though there's immoderate shingle erstwhile not astatine a lower, seated height. A stableness crossbar betwixt the 2 legs would person astir apt helped supply that past spot of other shingle resistance, but its omission does support the under-desk country acold much usable.

Speaking of stability, I person a love/hate narration with show arms. I emotion the concept, but person seldom recovered a show limb that remains reasonably stable, yet versatile. Fortunately, the optional Atlas Monitor Arm ($149, but similar the desk, often connected sale) is much successful the emotion category. It's well-built wide and highly adjustable.

The Atlas Monitor Arm simply clamp mounts successful the country down the table that has a flimsy indent. I had nary contented attaching it to a 34 inch LG Ultrawide Monitor. One disappointment was that 1 of the integrative cablegram clips arrived broken, truthful that's 1 happening the institution tin decidedly improve. Otherwise, it's a large archetypal enactment accessory.

While the Atlas Lite Standing Desk lacks the lighting, magnetic surface, and immoderate of the different features recovered successful the modular Atlas, it's hard to accidental that astir of those are truly necessary. Blacklyte made beauteous bully calls successful regards to the essentials erstwhile getting the terms down to wherever it is.