Earlier this year — in mid January! — I ordered a replacement chair for my desk: a Herman Miller Aeron Task Chair, B-size. Today, after 4 months, it finally arrived.

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The new Herman Miller Aeron chair

And after sitting in it for amount of time it took me to write this post, it’s great. The chair is comfortable, and I like that I can tilt it back slightly. I do wonder if I should’ve gotten the one with arm-rests, but none of my previous desk chairs had them and I’d probably would’ve regretted it if I did (taking them off is not a user serviceable activity). I do wish the new chair was just a little higher — the B-Size is the one with the highest lift — but it’s higher than my old one so I’m counting that as a win.

In fact, it’s a much better chair than my old one all round. That’s not saying much at all: what I had was a sub-$100 chair I bought from Officeworks. It was starting to wear and it was actually giving me some mild back pain. I also remember it being higher when I bought it, I guess the riser was starting to wear a little too.

Well, that old desk chair can take the load off (ha-ha) and go into retirement. Thank you for your years of service, sub-$100 chair from Officeworks, but your service is no longer required.

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The old sub-$100 Officeworks chair