The technology of computer chairs.
 

ok so I really didn't know where to put this but there is some technology involved in making computer chairs.

I am looking for a mid back pc chair with lumbar support but I also want a 17" seat depth thinking the 22' seat depth is too large.

What I find in the stores available 'right now' and at a budget between $70 and $115 dollars are too cheap and not what I am looking for at my budget.

So I got the great idea to ask all of you what the specs are of the chair you are sitting in right now and how you like it.

For instance. My chair is a high back faux leather chair with no lumbar support, no tilt tension and non adjustable arms on caster wheels. It sucks for my height and weight. It is made for someone much larger.

These are the two chairs I am looking at. The peach colored one is nice looking. It offers a tilt tension but a 22 inch seat depth. The red one offers a smaller seat depth plus the ability to change it. The red one is $62.99 free s/h and the peach one is $105 with free s/h.

I sit in my chair working for many hours. I am still not clear about the features and how they work.

What are your pc chair features? What do you like or dislike about them?

Thanks. I am trying to make an informed decision. :)

I use a kneeling chair. While it is possible to sit badly in it, it is also quite easy to sit in/on it properly :). I've got slight calluses on my knees because I spend too much time web-surfing.

If you sit all day in a chair, you will appreciate every penny you spend. I've sat in $100 chairs and $700 chairs. There is a world of difference in comfort, it is not just an issue of leather vs cloth.

I need to replace the 12 year old chair we inherited. It was about $400 when it was bought. It's lasted a long time and up till recently, it was very comfortable. The padding is just shot. the mechanics are still good.

Go to Staples and look at Furniture>Chairs then look at the differences between 24 hour task chairs, executive chairs, manager chairs, secretary chairs, etc. They are all designed slightly differently. Aside from being fancier, the exec chairs tend to be comfier. I guess, execs need pampering and there seems to be the expectation that execs sit on their assess all day, rather than get in and out of their chairs all day to step and fetchit as a secretary does.

I like the jeep chairs, as jeep seats are especially comfortable. The special on the srt8 model looks like a good deal...

Limey, I've always found the kneeling chair intriguing. If I ever see one in a store I will sit in it just to see what it feels like.

Does it support your back? I guess you have that negative lean and so you sit straighter huh?

Jinx, Nice chairs and they are on sale and free s/h too! A little out of my price range since I am saving for tires for my Explorer. They look comfortable but they do not fit the decor of my room. I have a bohemian chic bedroom.

If I were going to do it I would buy the red one and re-do my a kitchen in ice cream shop red and black motif. It would work. Oh and I would have to get larger too. They are huge with a seat depth of 26.6! :eek:

I will show them to my son so when he graduates and moves away and needs a nice pc chair for a good price. He might dig them.

S.N. I wonder if you can refurbish the chair you have. They sure don't make mechanics like they used to that's for sure.

I'm not going for big since I don't have a secretary to run and get me things. I want to sit comfortably yet be able to eject myself out of it...unlike this one which sucks me in and tries to kill me at my pressure points. It is wobbly and falling apart yet it is only over a year old. Yes you are right. You get what you pay for but I hope I get lucky and get more than what I pay for this time.

SO....I am on the staples site rfn searching!
What I like about the staples selection is you can design your own chair. How cool is that ?!

( edit- I guess 'design' means you can chose an alternate color) I'm still looking around though.

I wish I could help but I do most of my computing lying on my bed on my left side. Comfy? Yes. Practical? No.

I use a hydraulic drum throne with a backrest attachment (that basically just sits in the lower back).

I never realized there was such unique diversity in regards to what we sit on for pc chairs.

kind of interesting :)

The way it tilts your pelvis forward with the sloping seat means you have to sit straighter. When I sit "wrongly" on it, I lean with my elbows on the table in front of me, but my back is still pretty straight :).

Sky, I bought this chair from Staples and I like it a lot. I got it because it has the most flexible positioning and a shorter seat depth.

My wife bought this chair at Ikea a year or so ago. They call it the Moses. You can sit in it in complete comfort for up to about 30 minutes. It's only $39.99

It adjusts for your height! And it looks like leather.

There is something so funny about those two lines together. It sounds like the intro to a Monty Python sketch. I'm waiting for the punch line.

lol

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Looks like a good chair pico.

I want something supportive like a good shoe. Snug yet comfy enough. The chenille pink one looks like it would craddle my butt, give support to my back while sitting me upward.

This chair is similar to glatt's except it was about 100 or 150 dollars. I can't imagine paying one fifty but I might have.It's a brown and has padded armrests too. I sit so far into it the arms trap me in more than support me. The best way to sit in it is to sit way back and my heels to keep from sliding out.

I always managed to just slump higher in my back. I looked like a total hunchback sitting in those things, nevermind that they hurt my knees.

There was a woman I used to work with who just sat on a huge inflated exercise ball at her desk, and she swore by it. She said a physical therapist had told her to do it, because the constant tendency to sort of bounce and rock around ever so slightly built back strength and prevented any significant slumping (because you'd fall off.)

I don't think a good chair would help me, I sit on my left leg anyway, getting myself all out of whack and giving myself hip pain. Right now, though, I'd try just about anything. My spasms have spasms!

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I would love to know how many hours I've put on this chair. I've worn out one piston already.

I had one for years - even back when I first discovered the Cellar. Even spent 48 plus constant hours on it while doing a program for a masters program. Sun went down and up multiple times and I was still in that chair.

Over the years, I had to repad the knee supports. Eventually changed (redrilled) the swivel point position to make it more comfortable.

Conventional chairs had two problems. Arm rests (ie on the one with curving arm rests) can be too high so that the desktop at keyboard level blocks the arm rests. Even chairs with adjustable armrests sometimes could not be lowered. Kept the chair too far away causing leaning forward.

Put your elbows against your side. Put your forearms perfectly horizontal from your body. That is where the keyboard will be. Can the armrests sit many inches lower - get under the keyboard table? If not, arm rests are too high.

Second, the hydraulic piston in cheaper chairs fails quickly. No problem if it can be replaced. But I never found a replacement. Chair remained too low. Had to 'seal' the piston at a fixed height.

Tally up your hours from your pay stubs and multiply by .75
The ,25 should account for all the times you had to get up, go to some salesman's office and ask him WTF is this supposed to mean?

Somehow I don't feel quite so sorry for myself. Some of you need new chairs too.:p:

Imagine all of us sitting in our chairs moaning from the discomfort....well except for jinx with her jeep seat.:)

yeah, I do that ...when I forget not to. And I'm in physical therapy for left knee pain. Go figure!

I'm thinking I am a geek :) since no one mentioned how they ..just ..Love.. the lumbar support or the tilt-mechanism feature.




Well I guess balls,drum stools and kneel chairs and chairs from a hundred years ago wouldn't have those. :p:

...although the backrest attachment on the drum throne seems appealing.

I think I am going to go with this one. It's 89.99 It might take me some time to release my fist from the cash, though, or until this chair I am on now wobbles some more.

http://ep.yimg.com/ca/I/bizchair1_2107_42474250

It looks like it will jettison you if your computer crashes. :mg:

No that's jinx's jeep chair. It actually belongs in a moving vehicle.
:)

Well on second thought. If my computer crashes and I flinch A LOT and grab one of those levers. It just might jettison me!

Two years ago I spent weeks looking for a new desk chair. I sat in lots of chairs. Some were too big, some were too small, some were too hard, some were too soft. I found the Allsteel 19 to be just right.

http://www.allsteeloffice.com/allste...ts/seating/19/

It was a little expensive, but I was spending about 12 hours per day sitting in it.

(I was going to include an image, but I'm still unsure about the hotlinking issue.)

That's false advertising. There are clearly non-steel materials on that chair. I was hoping to see some crazy sculpted metal piece that didn't need padding because it was just that ergonomically correct.

Nice features HLJ!

(Cellar God must have added that image. Thanks Cellar God.)

There was another chair that I really liked that looked like a human exoskeleton, but it was a bit expensive. If I remember the name I'll post a link.

An exoskeleton? :unsure:

...ok I am curious now :)