Wednesday, January 27th 2021

IKEA x ASUS ROG Furniture for Gamers: First Look

IKEA and ASUS ROG announced a collaboration last September, for furniture and accessories targeted at gamers. The first products from this combine are out. From what we can tell, IKEA has given some of its existing home-office and garage furnishings an ASUS ROG trim, but we can also spot some new creations. Among the gear IKEA showed off are standing desks (both manual and motorized), wheeled desktop tower case stands, mats for your gaming chair, peg-boards with pegs, hooks, and Velcro straps for various kinds of hardware and peripherals; wheeled chests of drawers, and other accessories. What we're yet to see from IKEA x ROG, though, is a proper gaming chair. Perhaps one is in the works, since it would have to be a clean-slate design.
Source: momomo_us (Twitter)
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32 Comments on IKEA x ASUS ROG Furniture for Gamers: First Look

#26
Kohl Baas
londisteGaming chairs are overrated. Office chairs are as good or better for the majority of people.

I do not exactly see why gaming chair would have to be a clean slate design. Maybe some visual ROG clues but mechanically IKEA does have some pretty good chairs. I am happily sitting in an IKEA chair right now, this one (cost 149€ around here and 129€ for textile version):
www.ikea.com/us/en/p/markus-office-chair-glose-black-00103102/
A streamer I used to watch just had to switch to an ergonomic Hermanmiller because gaming chairs literally killed his back to the point he was unable to sleep. Now a whole lot of money went to the new chair and another pile will go to masseur, chiropractor and physiotherapy to reverse about 4-6 years of damage made by various sponsored gaming chairs...
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#27
efikkan
b_nino"IKEA stellar quality"

I guess that was ironic right ?
Ikea used to be much better. Chances are that some good Ikea furniture from the 80s and earlier are still solid today. But more recent laminated crap, not so much.
Durvelle27Hey ikea fills up the home cheaply
And fills up landfills quickly ;)
While you can find some good deals there if you look carefully, far too much of it will wear out too quickly.
londisteGaming chairs are overrated. Office chairs are as good or better for the majority of people.

I do not exactly see why gaming chair would have to be a clean slate design. Maybe some visual ROG clues but mechanically IKEA does have some pretty good chairs. I am happily sitting in an IKEA chair right now, this one (cost 149€ around here and 129€ for textile version):
www.ikea.com/us/en/p/markus-office-chair-glose-black-00103102/
Proper office chairs is certainly the way to go. But even the Ikea "office chairs" are really low quality compared to real office chairs. Such Ikea chairs will not last long with heavy use (10h+ per day). I've seen far too many of these break.

People who want "cheap" office equipment should not go to Ikea, they should go to someone selling second-hand office equipment.

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My plan these days is to find some quality desk underframes, and then find some B/C quality countertop of solid hardwood, give them a couple of coats of lacquer, resulting in some nice durable desks. Even Ikea used to have some very affordable solid oak countertops.
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#29
MnkyBrs
gottimwThe yen and yuan sign, ¥, is a currency sign used for the Japanese yen and the Chinese yuan currencies when writing in Latin scripts. This monetary symbol resembles a Latin letter Y with a single or double horizontal stroke.

You learn something new every day. Its utterly idiotic to have a same sign for two different currencies but that life.
Those are the only currencies that use the ¥ symbol, compared to the $, which represents:
  1. Argentina peso
  2. Australian dollar
  3. Bahamas dollar
  4. Barbados dollar
  5. Belize dollar
  6. Bermuda dollar
  7. Bolivia Boliviano
  8. Brazil Real
  9. Brunei Darussalam dollar
  10. Canada dollar
  11. Cayman Islands dollar
  12. Chile peso
  13. Colombia peso
  14. Dominican Republic peso
  15. East Caribbean dollar
  16. El Salvador colon
  17. Fiji dollar
  18. Guyana dollar
  19. Hong Kong dollar
  20. Jamaica dollar
  21. Liberia dollar
  22. Mexico peso
  23. Namibia dollar
  24. New Zealand dollar
  25. Nicaragua Corodoba
  26. Singapore dollar
  27. Solomon Islands dollar
  28. Suriname dollar
  29. Taiwan new dollar
  30. Trinidad & Tobago dollar
  31. Tuvalu dollar
  32. United States dollar
  33. Uruguay peso
  34. Zimbabwe dollar
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#30
Caring1
TheLostSwedeA few more things have leaked. Not liking these one bit.

That white Chair and Desk look alright IMO, the rest I wouldn't touch, along with the under desk storage unit, I don't need that either.
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#31
micropage7
the 3rd pic looks good, at least not with 4 legs it would be better than 2 legs
but i'm pretty fine with office table where you can sit on it without worrying about collapse
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#32
Aht0s
It doesn't look bad if price right. It definitely looks like Ikea with a touch of something...
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