Branch Duo Standing Desk vs Branch Standing Desk

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Branch Duo Standing Desk

Branch built the Duo for rooms that cannot take a full-size desk: 36 or 48 inches wide and 24 deep, with a 58×27 size above them, and a frameless underside so a drawer unit or a chair can sit where a crossbar normally lives. An OLED control panel replaces the usual plastic keypad, the finish options are furniture colours rather than office ones, and the whole thing is covered for ten years including the top — unusual generosity at $549. The compromise is the height range. Two-stage legs give it 19.3 inches of travel starting at 28, which is near the top of what a normal fixed desk measures. That works for an average-to-tall user and does not work for a short one, and no keyboard tray fixes a desk that will not go low enough. Judge it as a compact desk for someone of average height, not as a small version of a full-range one.

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Branch Standing Desk

Not sold new in the US. Branch no longer sells this desk new: its product page redirects to the Tria, and only open-box units remain.

Branch has stopped selling its original two-leg desk new. The product page now redirects to its successor, the Tria, and this desk survives only as open-box stock, from $599 against a $749 list price for the 48×30. As a desk it sits awkwardly beside the Duo: the same 275 lb rating, but four presets, three-stage legs and 26 inches of travel, from 26 to 52 inches, which is a genuinely wide fit window, plus 60 and 72-inch widths the Duo does not offer. Its electronics were covered for three years where the Duo gets ten. If an open-box or secondhand unit is on the table, the range is the reason to take it. If you are buying new, the Tria is now Branch's full-size desk and the Duo its small-room one.