Fully Nolan Standing Desk Review: Fantastic Four Legged Stability Leave a comment

Fully’s Jarvis is my favorite standing desk, and it ranks as considered one of my greatest purchases ever. It glides up and down as easily because the day I assembled it, and the eye-catching curved bamboo desktop nonetheless attracts admiring feedback, even when it has picked up a few dents over time. However, it very a lot seems like a standing desk. Shop round for different alternate options and so they all considerably look the identical. 

That’s the place the Fully Nolan is available in. Where the Jarvis relied on L-shaped legs with two motors to maneuver up and down, the Nolan has a extra conventional desk design with 4 telescopic legs. The controls are embedded within the desktop, and a metallic body outlines the underside. The headline enchancment right here is superior stability due to 4 motors. But with the Nolan beginning at $1,299, in comparison with $569 for the Jarvis, that is an costly improve.

Functional Elegance

It’s been 4 years since a standing desk changed my life, all however banishing my again ache. I’ve discovered it actually useful to alternate between sitting and standing all through the day, and having a desk that may transfer up or down means you may choose the perfect height if you end up sitting. It helps when the desk additionally simply seems like another desk.

Assembling the Fully Nolan took me round half an hour. The 4 legs slot into place and screw into the body, and the body screws into the bamboo desktop. The motors plug right into a small management unit by working cables neatly by way of channels contained in the body, and that is it.

You can get the metallic body and legs in black or white, and there are two sizes of bamboo desktops, however apart from numerous extras—like a desktop-mounted surge protector or cable administration trays—that’s it for personalisation. I opted for the cable administration tray ($30), which screws into the underside of the desktop and holds a surge protector. My solely second of pause? I needed to resolve the place to screw it in, because the handbook solely had suggestions for the Fully Jarvis.

The Nolan’s rectangular metallic body goes across the underside of the desktop, which may current a possible problem for monitor arms, because the clamps have to be prolonged and fitted to the entire body. I’m utilizing an Ergotron LX for my ultrawide monitor, with its portrait companion mounted on a VonHaus Single Arm Gas Mount. After a little bit fiddling, each securely clamped in place, and I haven’t had a wobble since.

Using the Fully Nolan is straightforward through the management panel embedded within the desktop. You can set mounted positions or use the up and down arrows, and I a lot want the tactile bodily buttons to Fully’s touch-sensitive OLED management panel on the Jarvis. The top seems on a delicate show, which solely involves life whenever you press one of many buttons. It’s responsive and environment friendly. I anxious about setting it off by accident, as a result of it sits on the entrance proper of the desktop the place my arm typically rests, however the buttons require a deliberate press.

Highs and Lows

The one factor I’ve lengthy disliked about my Jarvis desk is that it wobbles. It jiggles barely when the motors kick in, and the upper it goes, the much less secure it feels. I’m 6″1′, and with the Fully Jarvis … er, totally prolonged for my standing place, my screens rock if I bump the desk.

By distinction, the Nolan is rock-solid. That annoying shudder from my monitor arm is totally gone. I can lean on the desktop of the totally prolonged Nolan and it doesn’t budge an inch. It may sound trivial, however the further stability seems like a serious improve. Other desks enhance stability with a crossbar on the again, however even that resolution can’t compete with a motor on every leg. I additionally respect the pleasingly easy design that leaves you with loads of actual property underneath the desk, with nothing to get in the best way of your legs.

The Nolan’s vary of motion, at 26.5 to 45.5 inches, is extra restricted than the three-stage Jarvis body, which may go all the way down to 25.5 inches and as much as 51 (there may be even a low model that bottoms out at 22.6 inches), however that received’t be a problem until you’re very brief or very tall. The solely factor I miss in regards to the Jarvis is that contoured desktop, which you’ll add as an improve. That’s not out there on the Nolan (at the very least, not but), however given a selection between the 2, I’d choose the Nolan each time for the added stability.

Unfortunately, you will pay a hefty premium for it. The Jarvis begins at $569, and for those who spec it just like the Nolan, it jumps to $749, which remains to be a far cry lower than the Nolan’s $1,299 asking worth. But for those who can afford it, you will adore it. The Fully Nolan is the perfect standing desk I’ve ever examined.