Best Standing Desk: Flexispot Odin E7Q vs Uplift Commercial V2 | Which Is Worth The Money?

so everyone as you may or may not know I've had this autonomous sit stand desk with me for the better part of four years now it was my first sit stand desk ever my first motorized desk and I have zero complaints about it but now I did want to get myself a bigger desk and I was stuck between two different desks and two different companies I've seen a lot of ads for uplift and I've also seen a lot of ads for flexi spots so what I ended up doing was actually bought two desks that were very similar in price very similar in size they're actually the same exact size and just with a couple of different finishes and basically what I wanted to do is build them both compare them and see which one I liked better and end up returning one of them and I figured hey let me do a video comparing each one of these because I can't be the only one that's deciding between two different branded standing desks that are about the same price and provide the same amount of value so in this video that's exactly what I'm gonna do I have flexi spot's new Odin eq7 desk which is their new high-end kind of form factor with the four legs and it's a very quality build because flexi spot originally came onto the scene as an alternative or as a cheaper alternative to get into the sit stand motorized desk and now they're moving into the more premium space and also have the commercial sit stand desk by uplift which I don't know about you guys but I've been getting YouTube ads for uplift for a long time now so I figured let me compare the two I got them in the same exact size 60 by 30 and we're gonna go through everything from how loud they are how easy or hard it was to build what are the pros and cons of each are what one has over the other I'm going to talk about and see exactly which one I'm gonna end up keeping so leave some comments down below of what you think I'm gonna end up keeping because I already know and I already decided on which one I am and it should be behind me by the time this video ends but without further Ado let's get into it [Music] so I do briefly want to go over the ordering process of both of these desks they both have a ton of finishes to choose from and they both have a starting price that's a little bit lower than what I ended up going with but you can go with a cheaper finish on the table top you can go with a cheaper finish on the legs but you get all the options that you want from bamboo to Wood to plastic to plywood whatever the case may be and then you also have a bunch of colors and colorways to choose from and also you can choose even bigger desks like I personally went with 60 by 30 on both of them where this autonomous desk I believe is a 50 by 29 so I should get a bunch more real estate on the actual desk itself but I wanted just a bigger desk overall and then what I will say is that on the uplift side there is a bunch of like free goodies that you can add on or even upgrade right so you can add a drawer on there for free you get a t-shirt for free a bottle opener you get a bunch of little goodies that you know go relatively unnoticed for the most part and I probably won't use too many of them but it's something to be said because I even got like a stand and a lamp all included for the price versus on the actual flexi spot side there was no little goodies attached to it that I could choose from there were upgradable aspects and you could get maybe chairs and things like that but they weren't free but at the end of the day we're here for the desk but I just wanted to mention that you do get some goodies to choose from that come included with the purchasing price on the uplift side and then just to bring up the actual finishes that I went with on each desk on the uplift desk I went with the black laminate kind of board an actual tabletop with the white legs and then with the Odin flexi spot desk I went the white wood chipboard table top with the black legs and this one you can kind of tell immediately that on the uplift side which we'll get onto in a little bit you have two legs and then on the actual flexi spot side you get four legs and that's gonna be a big big difference when it comes to stability and movement and how quiet everything is but we'll touch on that in a little bit so now we've got the ordering process out of the way let's talk about actually how to build this thing how long it took if you can do it on your own so let's start off with the flexi spot side on the flexi spot side everything came packaged beautifully you got two main packages for all four legs so those four legs come separate into two different packages and comes with everything you need the instructions the tools all the actual screws and stuff then you get a separate package for the actual tabletop so on a flexi spot side three total packages and then with the uplift side it comes with two different packages if you're just doing the table top in the legs but then if you got those free accessories it came with I believe two extra boxes with all the little freebies that came with it so if you just get the desk it's going to be two packages versus three packages but again on the flexi spot side when I opened up the legs everything was organized beautifully everything had its own place everything had instructions on where to put everything what each leg were supposed to go and things like that and then on the actual uplift side it was still pretty organized but it was a little bit more kind of Hit or Miss in terms of what you actually need to get out of there where everything is you can kind of figure it out on your own but I just like how organized and how beautifully everything was put together on the flexi spot side now when it comes to putting everything together you don't really need a second person to do it although it does help and I did have some help building both these at the same time so that definitely helped expedite the process it took me about an hour to put both of them together with some help like I mentioned but on the uplift side the instructions were a little bit more clear overall it was easy to navigate the actual documentation was easy to read and also one big thing that I didn't notice which I liked on the uplift side is that all the holes are pre-drilled onto the actual table unless you use the drawer for the drawer you actually have to drill it in yourself but for all the necessary stuff in terms of the frame and the legs and the actual tabletop all the holes are pre-drilled for you so all you have to do is line everything up and drill it in and it's usually either an allen wrench or a regular screwdriver now on the flexi spot side the instructions were a little bit the instructions were still pretty easy to follow but the actual illustrations were a little bit hard to read overall so definitely pay attention to what you're doing when actually getting this installed and the Odin desk for instance didn't have pre-drilled holes they had some pre-drill holes but not for the actual frame so you do have to kind of line everything up make sure that everything is even make sure you're kind of an inch away from the actual Edge and then actually drill in the screws with a power drill so if you don't have a power drill I recommend maybe renting one or borrowing one from somebody because it's going to help expedite the process that much more but they were both very easy to install very easy to put together like I said in about an hour we got both of them installed and ready to go but I will say at the flexi spot one once it's all built and especially the packages those were a lot heavier so if you got to climb them up the stairs or something like that definitely get some help if you need to because those legs those Odin legs are very very heavy but for good reason because they're extremely sturdy and they're not going to go anywhere you're not gonna have any shake so I would say that from the instruction standpoint and building it it's pretty even in terms of how easy and how hard it is so from a building perspective from an instruction perspective I'd probably just leave it up as even because you know the instructions are a little easier to read but the packaging was much better on the flexi spot side versus The Uplift side so to eat their own but they're both can easily be done but I will say that the fact that you need a power drill is something that should not go unnoticed on the actual flexi spot side so let's quickly talk about the actual specs on paper of each of these desks in terms of low capacity height adjustability and things like that before we get into the build quality and the actual usability of these desks so on the flexi spot side it does have a higher Max load capacity of about 440 pounds as you can see in some of the b-roll that I'm showing you I'm about 200 210 pounds it moved me very easily very quietly very consistently as well so let's say you have a 50 pound PC use a Macbook you have two monitors you have an Xbox it's going to be able to handle pretty much anything that you put on there and it's not going to actually slow down in speed in terms of height adjustability just make sure everything is tightened and ready to go when you do put let's say maybe a monitor arm and things like that but it's going to be able to hold pretty much anything that you throw at it from a load capacity standpoint and then on the flexi spot side in terms of height adjustability you go as low as 23.8 inches which is very low in my opinion like my autonomous steps behind me only goes down to 29.5 which is this is the lowest setting right now so imagine like six or seven inches even lower and then from a height adjustability on the top end it goes to 49.4 inches and I'm about 511 so those height adjustabilities are perfect for me I'm not going to go that High Ever I'm not going to go that low ever I'm going to find a nice little sweet spot right in between and if you want to get real technical the speed is measured at 1.5 inches per second that's how fast it moves up and down and it also has anti-collision so let's say maybe you have some drawers some standing drawers underneath it it's not going to try to crush the drawers it's going to actually feel those drawers and then stop stop moving the dust down same thing goes maybe you're standing under it or something's moving it's going to make sure that it doesn't actually mess up anything that's underneath it when it's not supposed to and then for the uplift desk in terms of load capacity it's about 90 or 80 pounds less so you get about 355 pounds of load capacity which again I actually sat on this one as well and for the most part speed was the same it was still consistent it was able to move me at 200 210 pounds so unless you have like a ton of stuff and you're going to get up to that 400 or 400 pound kind of load capacity depending on what you're doing like I know some people like to use these Destiny for 3D printers there's some heavy kind of equipment then maybe you want to go with the Odin desk because it has a little bit more load capacity but if you're just using it as a desk with a couple monitors you know your laptop you should be fine with 350 pounds or 355 pounds of low capacity and now this one doesn't go as low at 24.3 inches in terms of height adjustability but it goes a little bit higher at 49.9 inches compared to 49.4 so let's say you are in that upper echelon and you need that extra maybe half inch then obviously the uplift desk is going to get you to that almost 50 inches of height and then if you want to get again real specific this one goes 1.6 inches per second so if you want that extra 0.1 inches per second then the uplift desk has the flexi spot beat on that aspect and then in terms of sound the uplift desk is rated at about 50 decibels when it is moving and those Motors are turned on and then on flexi spots website for the Odin it says less than 50 decibels but in real world use I will say that the flexi spot Odin desk is relatively quieter and you do notice a bit of a difference when you have them both side by side and that probably has to do with the actual weight being dispersed among four legs versus two legs and the motor is not having to work as hard to move those four legs overall so if you want something that's a little bit quieter the Odin dust is going to be for you but again 50 decibels is not that loud so unless there's a baby sleeping that you're trying to make sure you're not waking them up then you'll be you'll be fine with either one of them in terms of sound coming from the motors so now let's talk about the build quality of each of these desks so the legs themselves are made out of real heavy metal as they should be because it is a desk it's gonna be holding anywhere from 300 to 400 pounds depending on which desk you're going to get on but overall the build quality of the leg eggs in the frame are great I'm going to give the build quality overall to the Odin because the frame again it comes with four separate legs versus only two on the uplift desk but again that's just a matter of what build kind of you want and some people don't want the four legs but again the four legs is gonna help a lot when it comes to stability especially when you have them all the way at the top height adjustment you can see that the flexi spot does moves a lot less than the actual uplift s when you are at that height adjustability because the higher you go the less stable things are going to be especially if you're moving stuff around a lot or you have a bunch of weight on top of it so the Odin desk having four legs is going to help with stability a lot of the time versus two like for instance this autonomous desk when I get it to that Max height adjustability it's going to move a little bit right especially if I'm kind of leaning on it or if I'm moving a mouse around a lot it kind of shakes the actual monitor that I'm using a little bit but to each their own I would prefer the four legs over the two legs if I were to ask and then I tried to keep the actual table tops kind of the same because I went with the black laminate on the actual uplift desk which from a build quality standpoint is fine it's a little bit on the thinner side compared to what I got which is a chipboard on the actual flexi spot side so it is made out of wood but it's chipboard it's not hard solid wood but both of them have options to get full kind of either bamboo or actual slab of wood those do get a little bit expensive that's why I kind of went with kind of keeping them even with a laminate and a chipboard table top overall to kind of keep it even when I am reviewing it but I will say that the finish and the quality is a little bit better on the Odin one just because I do like kind of the wood aesthetic or the wood look on it and I also wanted my tabletop to be a little bit thicker because I do use monitor arms to hold up the monitor behind me and the thicker the desk is or the thicker the table top is the better it is for the monitor arm to a certain extent so this one is a little bit thinner on the uplift side and the flexi spot side it is nicer in terms of fit quality and finish but I will say that with the uplift side you do get those two little holes for cable management to pass through some cables which is a nice little add-on and it is free and included on the uplift side versus on the flexi spot side there wasn't even an option to add those at all so if you need those kind of pass-throughs on the back of the desk which is very classic way that desks are built way back back in the day then uplift is going to be the way to go versus on the Odin flexi spot side that wasn't an option at all to me not a huge deal but to some it could be and then if you come around to the front of each of these desks you can see that on the uplift side the actual controller to move the desk up and down is just a controller that shows up in the down arrow now you could spend a little bit more money to get maybe the four memory buttons to get a little bit more functionality to get the actual dial that lets you know exactly how tall it is or how high it is but the free version of the one that comes included is just this up and down arrow it doesn't give you the it's not going to show you how high or how low it is it's not going to give you memory slots it's not going to give you any of that and then if you look at the flexi spot side that controller is a little bit more robust and a little bit more familiar if you are used to having the actual dial in the digital screen to show you how high and how height adjustable everything is so you get a measurement of how high or how low the actual desk is you get a couple memory buttons an info button and obviously the up and down arrows as well so from the controller side I'm going to give you the flexi spot as well because it is included in the price versus if you go with the uplift desk you're gonna have to pay a premium they do have more option functionality so if you want just a little bit more functionality if you want just some memory buttons but no screen if you want the screen but no memory buttons you get about three or four different choices on the actual controller to move the uplift desk up and down but again you have to pay for it and the more functionality you have the more you have to pay for and now let's quickly talk about the underneath right the underneath the chassis the cable management of each of these desks because they're kind of a little bit different in how they want to Cable manage everything so what I will say is that both of them come with a basic kit of cable management with some zip ties some velcro tape so just enough to get you started if you have a ton of stuff to Cable manage you might want to go separate and get another kit or you could buy them directly from the website but you get some you get the basic stuff from each side but on the uplift side the way that they handle cable management is a little bit different than on the actual flexi spot side so with uplift you get the classic kind of cable management kind of trundle or the cable management kind of little hook metal so it's a metal piece that you kind of drill into the actual desk itself and it'll hold maybe like a power strip it'll be able to hold anything that you need in there but there's no kind of beginning or end to it things can probably slip out if they do slip out but it is there and it is included if you guys do want to use that but then on the flexi spot side I thought it was a little bit interesting and to each their own I actually prefer this because it's easy to hide stuff without going crazy with the cable management but it actually includes this like hammock style cable manager so there are six points of contact that you screw into the bottom of the actual flexi spot desk and also brings a hammock with a little with six connection points and that hammock kind of just goes in there and basically the idea is to stuff all of your cables and all of your power strips and all of your power supplies into this like kind of baggish looking thing it doesn't fall as far down because it is very taut and very tight so I like that about it but to each their own some people like to have everything meticulously organized with double-sided tape with velcro with cable ties running things down the legs running things down on the back of the actual desk itself but this gives you the option to kind of stuff everything into this little hammock for lack of a better term and kind of just forget about it because it is dark you don't see it it keeps everything kind of tight up against the bottom of the desk and you don't really have to Cable manage and zip tie and kind of commit to a certain cable management structure so ultimately a big part of the decision making process is going to be price of these desk and I'm going to let you know that on the uplift side it was 987 dollars and then on the Odin flexi spot side it was 1019 so the difference is about I want to say 30 to 40 dollars which isn't a huge difference like I said earlier uplift does include a bunch of free or included goodies like I said you get a bottle opener you get a t-shirt you do get that bamboo drawer I got a little iPad stand I also got a little lamp so I would say there's probably like 100 worth of value in terms of little goodies that you get and then on the flexi spot side for a thousand nineteen dollars you only get the desk in the frame and the table top of course and like I mentioned there is ability to add more add-ons and get things like drawers and add-ons and even chairs and stuff like that but it does not come included in the price at all so overall you do get a little bit more value I would say out of the actual uplift desk but because of build quality because of the fit and finish because of the forward legs because of how quickly everything moves and how kind of tight and concise everything is I'm deciding to stick with the Odin desk even though it is a little bit more expensive and you get maybe a little bit less of those knickknacks and things that for the most part I won't use too much I just prefer the fit and finish of the Odin desk so it's been about a week now and as you guys can see behind me I decided to go with the Odin flexi spot desk it was a combination of the four legs the nice chipboard table top that resembled real wood and kind of a real table top finish and then also just the stability and the size overall I've been a huge fan of it it kind of increased the actual productivity that I have because now I look forward to going to my desk again it's always nice to change up your environment from time to time but it fit everything that I had on my previous desk and then some and I was even able to fit my Alex drawers from Ikea underneath the desk versus with my last desk I actually had to put them off to the side because it was kind of uncomfortable to fit underneath and then also the cable management was easy with their kind of six point hammock style Cable Management where you just stuff everything underneath there to hide it and deal with it later overall I absolutely love it I cannot recommend it enough it's extremely stable even with the amount of stuff that I have on here when I bring it up to the highest standing position it still barely even shakes everybody but that is gonna do it for this video leave the comments down below of what you think did I make the right Choice by going with the Odin desk versus The Uplift commercial V2 desk I'm always curious to know what you guys think what you use in general and let me know if you are a standing desk user overall but hopefully you enjoyed this comparison I tried to go in depth to help you make an educated decision because at the end of the day these aren't cheap desks they're around a thousand dollars each depending on what variant you go with you can spec both of these out for over three thousand dollars depending on what tabletop you go with but that's gonna do it for this video Everybody if you enjoyed leave a little dolphin in the comments down below so I know you made it to the end and if you guys want to watch more Mac OS iOS or iPad OS videos or maybe even some accessory videos click on one of these right here and until next time I'm Fernando and I'm out of here everybody the Odin desk is the real deal I'm going to link these both down in the description below because both of them are still great options peace

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Length: 17min 25sec (1045 seconds)

Published: Mon May 15 2023