The Best Desk Setup for $200! #Helpful Post

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you yeah I'm Kevin Hart as a bunny

yo guys johnathan here and welcome to

the $200 death setup where the challenge

is to find a desk the accessory did not

line make it functional but it's got to

look good and most importantly not

exceed that price point now disclaimer

this is not include the computer or the

speaker's because looks pretty much

single-handedly obliterate the entire

budget that may make explain to a later

episode at a higher price point that

something you want to see go to drop a

like down below but for now the focus is

for those who already have a computer

but need to shake things up as far as

their setup goes so for starters we

could not do a setup challenge without a

desk and for this I want with the techni

mobili modern computer desk which has

its really clean pine laminate top white

accents white feel legs and gives you a

pretty decent amount of real estate all

while remaining relatively compact now

currently as of right now this desk is

110 bucks on Amazon so it's going to

give us roughly 90 bucks to play around

with as far as accessories go but a

couple things that sent out to me with

this desk is one the stored which is

plenty enough space to store your

keyboard your mouse your pen your pencil

or in this case if you're awesome Evans

your 10-year anniversary notebook at so

Tech regardless if you're awesome Evans

though anybody's going to appreciate

some cable management and that is

exactly what we have here in the back

the compartment opens up which is going

to be really helpful for hiding those

pesky cables first up is the globe desk

lamp which is a really really tall box

oh man this is going to be some assembly

required

a Scots iron reach that doesn't screw it

it kind of sits there Oh No okay I'm

Spellman I was trying to connect the

spring to the top of the lamp but in

this case it goes from end to end be

careful you don't whip yourself in the

face and that we've got ourselves a

light so now we've got the lamp set up

initial impressions are after the kind

of sketchy installation it's not bad for

20 bucks at all we're going to go ahead

and get this light bulb in this is a $10

colored LED light bulb BAM now see if

you get some changing color so we got

red green blue my boy so it's a lab in

the light bulb out of the way my biggest

question right now is going to be the

LED strip for the back of the desk this

I've actually never messed it before if

it's going to be interesting to set it

up was cool though from what I can see

it is actually powered by USB so you're

not going to have to tinker around with

power or possibly electrocute yourself

so to test it off I'm doing power this

up through a USB power break-in yep that

actually works I am like a sit down

Christmas tree

following the LED light there are these

really cool cable management strips that

come in a pack of five for around twelve

bucks

what you're seeing here is actually one

split in half and the reason I'm doing

that is we can keep that open in the

middle of that we can eventually then

tuck in the cable just like the LED

strip what's also nice touch with these

is they come with the 3m adhesive

pre-installed you're not going to have

to attach that or stick that on yourself

next we can go ahead and attach the LED

strip and right away you can already see

how that cable management strip is

paying off because we can touch the

cable neatly through that and then run

it inside the desk now functionally the

LED strip worked perfectly and for 10

bucks having the built-in control was

awesome but it was at that moment I

quickly realize that I actually placed

it too high because of how the desk

functions so through my trial in there

if you go with this setup it's actually

a better move to place the LED strip

slightly lower what that's going to do

is allow you to open and close the cable

even portions on the desk without

screwing up your LED strip now

realistically you're not going to want

to throw a USB Bank inside your desk so

next up is a surge protector from power

add what I like about this is in

addition to the outlets there are also

two USB ports which in turn will power

up the LED strip it was almost a test

within a test which is really nice to

know that you're not limited to one

stick only on the LED strip for

attachment the second time worked just

as well from there was really about

putting these finishing touches on the

setup and I got to say the cable

management section worked really well it

helped keep things super clean and tidy

total for this setup was just under 180

bucks which leaves us around 20 bucks to

play around with so in this case I went

ahead and threw in a fake plant and of

course baby Groot so with the color

we're getting to the lights and the

lighter tones of the desk itself it

looks really great against the darker

wall especially at night but it also

looks great in a lighter environment in

front of a white wall like this all in

all for a hundred ten bucks the desk is

really solid the one thing I will point

out is you got to be careful not to

scratch it because it is a laminate top

so if you happen to be subscribed to the

Curiosity box by Vsauce definitely don't

do this okay now for scale and for

reference this is a 15-inch MacBook

products we're thinking about using a

monitor I would say 21 to 24 inches it's

probably the ideal sweet spot the cable

management section is often you can see

what a great job it does the height of

the wires you pair that with the drawers

up front that helps keep things

organized tack on a few accessories are

four to Bill's we got a really clean set

up a slide for that hopefully you guys

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