I wanted to bring up this topic. It is something I care about and only when things go wrong. I spend an exorbatant time sitting on a chair in front of the computer. I am not by any means an expert on this subject. I have however, been through so many chairs now, I feel I have a grip on the market in the US for computer chairs.
It is a battle! I have been down the $160 chair road and it is not pretty. They are made of crap and fall apart in sometimes six months. At my place of work I am set to a $200 limit. Same deal these chairs are horrible and I feel bad just sitting in them day to day. You wear them down and you end up sitting on a peice of wood. Circulation gets cut off in your legs and it starts to not hold you up anymore on the lean back.
At home I went through chairs like no one I know. Break them throw them out run to the nearest home depot or office depot and get another. This went on until I bit the bullet and ordered one of those gamer racing chairs built for a big man and costing around $600. This one lasted and the foam actually held up. Now I am dealing with the external pleather peeling off of it. Maybe it is leather but I doubt it. Still arguably worth money. DXRacer was my brand name and I am still sitting on it.
At work I finally found a solution. I am six foot three inches and about two hundred and fifty pounds. I convinced my work place to exceed their limit for me (back problems, not really but it worked). I went for a big man's chair. I mean a REALLY big man's chair. They come wider in the seat but are rated for 500 pounds and seven years of wear and tear. The one thing I noticed was steel frames on the legs and the arms. It is something everyone should look for. When a chair has to be steel framed to handle the weight of a larger person it will last longer for them and really anyone else. Again, it worked and it lasts and now it is peeling. Pleather again most likely.
So I am happy but I am always looking for that next best thing and really the reason I wanted to post up. I am excited to see BMW is taking gaming chairs seriously and they have put out what I think may just be the solution to my problem. Think about it. Car manufacturers know how to build chairs that last. Check it out!
Here is the article that inspired me to write about my chair battles:
BWM Chair Article on MSN
