Placeholder—November 30, 2025✓ Verified purchase
My husband bought this desk a year ago because we work at home a lot and it’s important to stand often throughout the day. I sat at his desk recently and realized I could also benefit from a mechanical desk, so I bought the black one for me. Great size, lots of room for my 34” ultra wide monitor, my MacBook Air, plus plenty of room on the left and right side for supplies etc. love the digital settings for raising and lowering. You can program 3 settings. Highly recommend. Read more
Arapheon—March 26, 2024✓ Verified purchase
I have used this desk for quite some time now. It has functioned nearly flawlessly It feels just about as sturdy as a desk can feel at full height. I am 6 foot 1, and it does barely get high enough for me. Though if i was even an inch taller, I would say that it wouldn't go high enough. The assembly took some time, but is obviously made of good materials and has maintained its look and quality for the two years I've owned it. One of its best features is that you can set three memory positions, and you hit those memory buttons and it goes there with one touch--no need to hold a button. I have two very minor complaints. One, I don't care for the touchscreen. It goes to sleep immediately (calls itself a power save mode, which is ridiculous on an LCD screen). And you can't be sure where to touch it to wake it up. I have to keep poking around before it eventually finds something, and then half the time that makes something happen that I don't want. I would have preferred physical buttons or for it to not sleep. Two, I have had to reset the whole desk about 4-5 times. Not a huge deal. Usually it requires me to remove it from the power source, and plug it back in. But twice it has been stuck in an error mode and I need to do a full reset with a power cycle and holding the down arrow for 15 seconds. I should also add that their support is SPECTACULAR. You can go to the Vivo website and immediately chat with a knowledgeable and helpful representative that will quickly solve any issue you have. Overall, this desk has been like a 4.5 star purchase. 4 for the nagging little issues, 5 for everything else. So i rounded it to 5. Read more
Dave Edmiston—May 3, 2022✓ Verified purchase
This desk is really amazing. It's as close to "exactly-what-I-was-looking-for" as possible. It's comfortable to use while I'm seated and it's a great standing desk too. The height kind of cracks me up because it's so tall. I'm a six-foot dude, and this goes WAY too tall for me. The memory feature is perfect because it lets me press 1 for seated and 3 for standing. (I don't think I'll ever have a use for the mid-range setting, but it's nice to know that I have one more memory position left if I need it.) So here are my complaints, both of which have to do with the build quality... 1. For practical reasons the desktop comes in three sections that you connect together. I can't complain about that, because the box would be too big to ship if it were one solid shape (although you can ship a 55" TV without sawing into thirds). The hardware for this is a set of dowel pegs on the edge and then some heavy duty screw-on brackets to keep the sections together. But there's nothing to keep lateral tension on it. If you've put together anything from IKEA, you'll be familiar with their pegs and cams, and the cams create tension when you tighten them and that keeps the two butt-joints snug. Without this, the desk ends up with two long grooves down the desktop where dust and grunge can collect. I've got a big blotter though and it covers those grooves pretty well. 2. Next is the hardware to attach the legs to the desktop. (As a side note, I should mention that I had tons of screws leftover, like over twenty screws. Between the kit for the desktop and the kit for the legs, the screws weren't labeled very well and it was impossible to tell what's what.) Anyway, I used the screws with the largest heads because they made the most sense to me: The smaller headed screws would pull through the holes in the legs, and the number of large screws matched the number of holes in the legs. The problem though is that these screws are almost exactly the same length as the width of the desktop and the hardware on the legs. Consequently I have little pucker dimples on my desktop where the screws are trying to poke through the finish. This really stinks. Fortunately for the seller I'm too lazy and too timid to try to send this thing back and start over. Plus I'm in a hurry and really need a desk pronto. Besides those two complaints though, this thing is fabulous. The legs are seriously beefy and the mechanism works great. This thing is very solid. I also love how slow and quiet the motor is when it rises. I don't think the documentation gave a max capacity, but this has enough torque to easily raise and lower my heavy monitor, laptop, and the usual flotsam that I keep on my desk. I pray that the motor is high enough quality to last me for years. I think we've all learned during covid that a desk isn't just a desk. This is the docking station for our lives and we're going to be parked here literally for years. Don't cut corners and don't go cheap. Pick out something that you'll be able to love for years and that will love you as much as an inanimate object possibly can. Read more
detlive—August 19, 2024✓ Verified purchase
Having bought my first VIVO standing desk early in the pandemic when I was first stuck at home, I've grown to appreciate the advantage of being able to mount monitors and laptops on monitor/laptop arms clamped to a desktop. And being able to lower and raise the desktop for use sitting or standing is also a good way to make sure I'm not sitting all day. This is my first VIVO model with the electric adjustment - the other 3 models I bought all have the manual/hand crank. Setup of this model was easy, and the electric motor works well. This particular desktop is for a new gaming system, and I went with the largest work surface yet (for me). I had an issue with one of the included parts not adjusting as expected, but I was able to contact VIVO and they sent me a new part to replace the one that wasn't working - all within just a few days. Thanks, VIVO! Would definitely recommend this desk, or the manual crank version, to someone looking for something reasonably priced and well made. Read more