Is it unheard of to use a folding table as a desk for an iMac?

[Dr.Pants]

For $50 I built my own desk. Not only is it perfect for my computer, but I also built in a cupboard that holds all my paper and stuff. This acts asan extra sturdy leg.

Beat me to it by a minute. Why not make your own desk, or get some help from a carpenter-friend? You must know somebody with a hammer, all you need is a basic layout and wood. Unless you want to go uber-fancy with drawers..... I hate drawers....

But yeah. I made a desk for my workstation. REALLY sturdy. No drawers, bout them seperatly.

 

[DarkRyan323i]

My new 24" was just sittin on the floor for a while until I got a desk!

I know this is more than what the OP wanted to spend but this is the desk I just got. Simple design like the iMac and not terrible too expensive. I like it a lot! Goes on sale for 199 every other month.

http://www.worldmarket.com/Furnitur...SELLER_INDEX|1||CATEGORY_SEQ_2897|0/index.pro

 

[tbrinkma]

Instructions for building the ultimate cheap computer desk:

1) Hit a GoodWill or thrift shop for two (short) filing cabinets that are the same height.
2) Buy a replacement door from a hardware store.
3) Use the filing cabinets as drawers and legs, use the door as the desktop.

 

[OneMike]

With a budget of $125 you can definitely get a desk. Try walmart http://www.walmart.com/catalog/catalog.gsp?cat=91851&sb=79&sdir=sasc

Got this desk from there over a year ago for my macbook http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=10250152 still just as sturdy as day one.

 

[jmj80]

i am using a 4ft plastic folding table for now, and i actually find it pretty functional. i would like a desk but too many of them and this was unused. someday i'll find the right desk that catches my i, till then, i'm happy

 

[BJMRamage]

Instructions for building the ultimate cheap computer desk:

1) Hit a GoodWill or thrift shop for two (short) filing cabinets that are the same height.
2) Buy a replacement door from a hardware store.
3) Use the filing cabinets as drawers and legs, use the door as the desktop.

my first apartment computer desk was similar. I used my home stereo receiver box, an end table and then a top of a entertainment center furniture (my first box of pieces in the entertainment furniture was missing pieces and some were warped) i laid the top over the two "legs" and it was good to go....until the apartment flooded and the cardboard box started to "melt".

but then i used more spare parts from teh entertainment center and now have a nice hard wood desk...free.

 

[Dezlboy]

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http://www.officedepot.com/a/products/369009/Office-Depot-Brand-Folding-Tables-29/

Tymbo..that is what I use. You can't see it from the pictures, but the "brace" (the part that connects the underside of table to the table legs), has a locking mechanism (a metal sleeve sits over the pieces that bend when folding up the table), so the table will not collapse. I like the table because it has plenty of room for speaker, and books, and I can do homework there.

 

[Justibackwardsn]

Here's my desk with a 24" depth.

Works extremely well for me. I would have my printer up there, but my AirPort Extreme is behind my entertainment center connecting my home theater and my blu-ray player. So my printer was obligated to go there too.

 

[henry2]

Like most the posters here in this thread i have a small folding table as my set for the laptop with stand and keyboard and mouse in the middle of the table and on the other side of the laptop is the small protable printer and ipad stand connected to the laptop and then other the other side of the laptop is the flat screen tv on the small folding table with a nice office chair in my bedroom that i rent from my kid out in Ca and if i need to pack up and leave everything can be broken down and packed into a laptop bag and a Ilugger travel case and it ready to be packed into the small storage cube with the rest of the stuff from the bedroom for travel to next place of work if need . ..

I basically use the computer as the way to watch hulu programing on the large flat screen tv when iam not working for i live a semi normad lifestyle of not beening in one place that long for the work i do and it lot easly to break down a small folding table than a computer desk for travel ..

 

[henry2]

Here is something i do after locking the table legs into place with the socalled locking system ..I take a duct tape and wrap it around the unit area where the locking system and it worked for years doing it that way about worrying if the table legs will fold up because of a problem with the weight ..

 

[skiltrip]

I've used a 5' Staples folding banquet table as my computer/studio desk for the last 7 or so years. I had to replace my first one cause the 19" CRT I had was a monster (weight wise).

I do it cause it's affordable, and has plenty of space for my music synth to slide underneath it.

There's no shame in it. I've looked for other desks but nothing else would work unless I spent a grand or more. 50 bucks appeals to me a lot more to me. Even if I need to replace it once every 4 years or so.

 

[jamesdmc]

I've been using a 6' folding table ($10 on craigslist) for my mac pro and 30" ACD for 3 years. I only recently put the mac pro on the floor. Before then, both had plenty of space. I'm not even looking for a "real" desk, as this fits my needs just fine. Tons of room on that thing.

 

[biggd]

ghetto bro


I found an amazing white and steel table at Ikea, for only $30

 

[henry2]

Why is it Ghetto? by useing a folding table for the Imac computer sometimes it the only choice intill you can get something better or you have not found something better in the socalled desktop desk market that out there ...

 

[coolspot18]

I have to disagree. Its ugly yes, but it would work just fine. I have a 20" and a 24" side by side on $10 tv trays at the moment so I can get all my stuff transferred from one to the other. Im sure that table is plenty sturdy enough.

You are a very brave person!