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| |  | Desks | | Home » | | | | | | | Description: | | A high-tech steel frame constructed corner work station that can accommodate a monitor, keyboard, printer, CPU, plus holds storage for 10 CDs.Features: - Two 5 slot CD racks
- Rear privacy panels added for stability
- Steel frame construction for durability
- Floor levelers for stability on uneven surfaces
- Select a color
Specifications: - Overall Dimensions: 35 1/4" H x 83 1/2" W x 40 1/4" D
- Top Shelf Dimensions: 23 1/2" W x 11 3/4" D
- Main Work Surface Dimensions: 83 1/2" W
- Adjustable Height Keyboard Shelf: 26" W
- CPU Holder w/Casters: 9 1/4" W x 17 1/2" D
- Ships ready-to-assemble
| | | Features: | |
• Overall Dimensions: 83 1/2"W x 40 1/4"D x 35 1/4"H
• Top Shelf: 23 1/2"W x 11 3/4"D
• Main Worksurface: 83 1/2" Wide
• Adjustable Height Keyboard Shelf: 26" Wide
| | | Product Details: | | | Product Length:
| 40.25 inches | | Product Width:
| 83.5 inches | | Product Height:
| 35.25 inches | | Product Weight:
| 40.0 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 1 reviews |
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5 of 5 found the following review helpful:
Absoutely the Best Computer DeskApr 10, 2008
The Studio RTA - Power Center III Corner Computer Desk fits very well in my 10 by 9 PC room. This C-shaped desk configuration is the most efficient work surface, augmented with bookcases on either side. Studio RTA has brilliantly engineered this product to be the first in real quality and functionality, compared to the offerings of its competitors for more than two decades. Congratulations, Studio RTA!
Background:
I have had at least 10 PC consoles/desks since the mid 80s. Particleboard construction wears out quickly, the quarter-turn fasteners break easily, and the surface wears into an ugly map, accelerated by moisture from cups/glasses. PC furniture doesn't get any more ugly than the worn/bubble mapped white surfaces of particleboard. Every console/desk I ever owned had serious design issues:
1) Gold medal goes to stupid engineering that encloses any PC in an under-console box (a water-cooled processor might survive, but not motherboards, hard drives and power supplies). This PC box design killed my $2000 PC in the summer of 2003. If you buy/have such a desk, make sure that the front door is of mesh-air flow design/or take the door off, and that the back is open (keep the back an inch or more away from the wall and make sure that the side vent for the microprocessor is not blocked);
2) Silver medal goes to particleboard construction that wears out and splits into sections at quarter-turn fastener locations. I recommend that you apply Tightbond to all mating surfaces of your existing desk (clamp for at least 24 hours) that do not require unfastening for movement of you desk to a new location;
3) Bronze medal goes to horrible sliding keyboard trays that do not lock in place. Other than a $450 commercial keyboard tray dinosaur found in corporate cubicles, I don't know if any sliding trays ever locked in place. Sliding keyboard trays are fixed at the wrong height and force you to use the mouse on the desktop surface (tray width is usually inadequate);
4) Brain-dead medal goes to idiotic hutches with tiny little drawers, and a top surface that is either too high or too narrow to accommodate a printer;
5) Alzheimer medal goes to the failure to provide the means to level the console/desk.
Survey:
This time I reduced several hundred PC console/desk candidates to one choice (there really is only one choice): the Studio RTA - Power Center III Corner Computer Desk in Pewter and Teak Finish - 19657. At least 90% of those that I reviewed still have serious design flaws. I will discuss these flaws, by describing each solution provided by the RTA Corner Computer Desk in the following paragraphs.
Construction:
Precision engineered with embedded screw-nuts without the infamous and dastardly quarter-turn fasteners. Even the undersides and backsides are finished (no ugly white particleboard surface anywhere).
Studio RTA does not enclose the PC in a heat-killing box (absolutely the dumbest blunder by any manufacture), because every 9-degree F increase, halves component life expectancy, e.g., with 70 degrees in the room and 97 degrees in the idiot-designed PC box, a four year component might last 6 months!
Studio RTA puts your PC on a caster platform that provides the best access you can find for plugging cables into the PC's back panel. The four legs of the RTA desk have individual leveling feet that adjust to ensure that the desk is level when the rug does not meet the wall. You can also adjust the feet to add up to a half-inch to the desktop height.
Studio RTA addressed heat flow under its corner desk by providing privacy panels with hole-grids to keep the air flowing. The privacy panels also add more support and the center panel has a top hole to feed your keyboard and mouse cables to the PC. This keeps the cables (if you are not using wireless) from hanging down by your feet.
RTA provides a keyboard tray that is vertically adjustable (the mechanism is foolproof and optimum in design) and the tray is of sufficient width for your mouse (makes me wonder if any of the sliding keyboard manufactures ever tested the insanity of using the mouse on the desk surface above the keyboard).
The height of the RTA keyboard tray is adjustable by you, and it will not move in/out as you type (a major design flaw). From an ergonomics perspective, the RTA keyboard tray is adjustable to your body's physical attributes and your captain's chair (sliding trays are miserable failures).
Studio RTA integrated a printer shelf that is perfect for my Epson inkjet printer.
Assembly:
Assembling the RTA corner desk was a no-brainer. I just looked at the pictures and did almost no reading.
When you install the legs and privacy panels, I recommend that you do not tighten any screws until all structural members are in place.
You will need a second pair of hands to install the keyboard tray, with the desk on its side (or do it yourself per the instructions - block it off the floor, for screw access, in an upside down position).
There is no bag(s) of hardware to inventory and sort through. All the hardware comes neatly arranged in plastic compartments on a card. The Allen wrench is included, so all you need is a medium Phillips-head screwdriver. Assembly time is about one hour.
Corner Desk Movement/Enhancement:
Because my PC room is only 10 X 9, I assembled the RTA - Power Center III Corner Computer Desk in the living room.
Although it is light enough for one person to lift, it required two people to very carefully transport it 12 feet down a 35-inch wide hallway, and thread it through the 30-inch doorway of the PC room.
Because the legs are quite sturdy, I may remove just the left privacy panel so the PC roll-about can move farther towards the wall.
Shipping and Handling:
The Studio RTA - Power Center III Corner Computer Desk in Pewter and Teak Finish - 19657 was delivered in just 7 days.
Although the shipping box showed some battering (no rips or dents), only the privacy panels had very minor damage. I had to straighten three privacy panel flanges, using needle-nose pliers. You can't see any flange damage now and who looks under a desk anyway.
Limitations:
1. Keyboard and Mouse. I have a full size MS keyboard and mouse. This combination is ok for word processing, but does not work very well for gamming. I recommend an 18-inch wide keyboard for gammers.
2. CRT Monitor. Any CRT monitor larger than 17-inches will not fit very well...the screen will be too close. You could put a corner shelf behind the desk, but make sure that the air can circulate behind and around the sides of your monitor.
3. LCD Monitor. Any large LCD monitor will fit very well. If you are a software developer, the desk can easily handle two LCD monitors.
4. Lighting. I also bought a Danray lamp, the best 24-inch gooseneck lamp you can find anywhere. I'm using a Lutron Electronics Plug-In Lamp Dimmer, Brown #TT300H-B (Amazon), rated at 300 watts to easily handle a 100 Watt lightbulb. The dimmer controls the amount of light on my book, keyboard, printout, audio equipment, bookcase, wall...even set it really dim as a PC Room night-light. You need a three-wire to two wire plug adapter (go to Lowes, 65 cents) to plug the Danray into the dimmer and the dimmer into the wall receptacle.
5. Cable Routing. 12 feet of Techflex 3/4-inch or 1-inch" F6 Split Sleeving (Amazon) is the best hi-tech solution for managing/hiding the rats-nest of cables to/from your PC and audio equipment. Each cable can be routed out of the Techflex bundle at the exact horizontal location of your speaker, monitor, wall receptacle, etc.
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