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Building the perfect desk setup - 49" Ultrawide Monitor + Standing Desk

2019-08-31 · Tech review, setup or bag tour · Ali · recording, 4:00 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Tools, apps and tech (also: YouTube, writing online and creators) · mode: Demonstration and walkthrough

Ali vlogs his 2019 desk overhaul: a Fully electric standing desk replaces the old desk, an LG 49-inch ultrawide monitor goes on it, and he tries two chairs Fully sent him; he thanks LG and Fully, promises a proper 2019 desk setup video and tells tech-minded would-be YouTubers to just start.

What is said

The parts of the video and what is said in each (★ — how much it matters to the video).

00:00:00 — Upgrading the desk setup: a motorized standing desk and a new 49-inch ultrawide monitor

  • ★★ Ali overhauls his desk setup, replacing his desk with a motorized standing desk by Fully and adding a new LG 49-inch ultrawide monitor he got a few weeks earlier. — 00:00:00

00:00:35 — The living room full of desk parts; the old desk dismantled and the standing desk installed

00:02:07 — Two chairs from Fully, the Herman Miller chair his mom vetoed, free furniture as a YouTuber's dream

  • ★ One of two chairs Fully sent Ali is a sit-stand stool that wobbles rather than staying still, encouraging the sitter not to be stationary or hunched over. — 00:02:07
  • ★★ In his old desk setup video Ali lamented that his mom would not let him get a Herman Miller Aeron chair because it was too expensive; Fully saw that video and emailed offering to send him one of their chairs. — 00:02:07 · Ali Abdaal's mother
  • ★★ Ali, obsessed with creating the perfect desk setup since he was about five (as heard), calls companies like Fully sending him free desk furniture the dream for a YouTuber into tech. — 00:02:44

00:03:24 — A proper desk setup video to come; thanks to LG and Fully; advice to tech-minded would-be YouTubers

  • ★★ Ali made this quick vlog to show the build of his new desk setup and to thank LG and Fully for sending him the monitor and the standing desk. — 00:03:24
  • ★★ Ali says he will make a proper 2019 productivity desk setup video once everything is set up, explaining all the gear and its specs. — 00:03:24
  • ★★ Ali tells anyone into tech who is thinking of starting a YouTube channel to just go for it: release a video about your desk setup and companies will start emailing you to try their products. — 00:03:24

In the description and comments

  • ★ Ali Abdaal (channel): The stand holding Ali's 49-inch LG ultrawide monitor is a heavy-duty Ergotron, bought on Amazon. — creator comment
  • ★★ Ali Abdaal (channel): Asked in a comment in October 2020 whether the 49-inch LG ultrawide monitor helps with productivity, the channel replies: not really. — creator comment

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Central: Fully · LG 49WL95C

Also: Ali Abdaal's mother · Herman Miller · LG

Only in the description or credits: Ergotron

Also centred on LG 49WL95C: My Productivity Desk Setup

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