A nice little chore for this weekend

[flexagon]

With the company's new fiscal year, the $500/year they give us for personal spending on geek equipment is restored. For the first time, we are being allowed to use that $500 toward office chairs--and oh, how sweet the thought of a cheap, really good chair! So it's time to go shopping.

I think I'll be deciding between the Aeron B and the newer Mirra.

Comments

Aeron

[hiddenbear.livejournal.com]

I have an Aeron and I love it. So configurable, and the mesh fits so well to the body ... I take the lumbar support thing off completely though, because I find the chair has enough support without it, and I can only take it for about an hour before it starts digging into my back with it.

The Mirra definitely looks cool though.

Re: Aeron

[flexagon]

Yeah, I'm just going to have to sit in them both & see what I think. The Aeron obviously is a known winner, but the Mirra has more automatic adjusting and 9 more years of engineering put into it. I'm a medium size, so the lack of different sizes isn't a problem. The real question is whether they slashed the price for good reasons (i.e. they found they could do it w/o slashing quality) or bad ones (they slashed quality to get more sales volume). And I can't tell... nobody here has a Mirra to try out, and the two people with Aerons are so much heavier than me that I can't even tell what an Aeron-adjusted-to-soyfetus would really feel like. Sigh... the problems I have. It's rough.

Re: Aeron

[hiddenbear.livejournal.com]

I'll be in my office late tonight, till 4 tomorrow, and at some points on Saturday and Sunday ... feel free to drop by.

thanks

[flexagon]

I plan to hit Home Design and Design Within Reach on Saturday (both are in that pricey little strip on Mass Ave between Harvard and Central), but if unsatisfied I shall surely take you up on that offer.